Word: ledgers
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Even if the movie pulls in crowds only in New York City, South Beach and San Francisco, it has redeemed Ledger from being a pawn--or even a knight--in the Hollywood chess game. "He's one of the best actors of his age," says Ang Lee, Brokeback's director. "He has complexity and intensity, and he's meticulous." Gyllenhaal, who wondered before filming whether Ledger "was going to pull it off," says he was blown away. "I know he hasn't been 100% happy with every performance he has given. But being able to make mistakes and fail...
...Ledger seems to have had enough rebellion for a while because the movie he made after Brokeback is the ultimate heterosexual fantasy. In Casanova, out Christmas Day, directed by Hallstrom, he's the swashbuckling charmer for whom his fans have been waiting. It's a very Disney Casanova, with minimal sex and maximal caper (Hot-air balloons! Masked balls! Duels! Mistaken identities!). Ledger, who plays the legendary lover, opposite Sienna Miller, is not too proud to admit that the appeal of the movie lay more in a 120-day shoot in Venice, where he could unwind from Brokeback, than...
Brokeback Mountain is a movie about the circumscription of dreams, about how fate and our choices make the life we have much smaller than the one we had hoped for. But that's not Ledger's story. Now that he has finally shed that bulky knight's armor, his life is just opening...
...onscreen husband and other co-star, Heath Ledger, struggles to think of anything to say about her. Perhaps that's because it's, you know, not very macho to talk up your fiancé and the mother of your child. "It was a big gift to have two people falling in love in our midst," says producer James Schamus of the duo's on-set romance."You forget how lovely that...
...noted that Ledger had developed a reputation for dating his co-stars. He had an on-off relationship with Naomi Watts, whom he met on Ned Kelly. But this one seems to be sticking, as evidenced by Matilda Rose, Williams and Ledger's 3-week-old daughter...