‘Heath Ledger and I turned very shut’: Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur on late actor’s dying anniversary

By ANI

WASHINGTON: Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, who directed Heath Ledger within the 2002 epic ‘The Four Feathers’, lately remembered the late actor on his fifteenth dying anniversary.

According to Variety, an American media firm, on the time of Ledger’s dying, Kapur was working with him on a satire on the media titled ‘The Nine O’Clock War’ and was one of many final individuals to talk with the actor.

“Heath and I became very close. He used to write to me and he called me my brother from another mother, we became that close.” Kapur informed Variety.

The filmmaker stated he travelled to New York to fulfill Ledger to debate ‘The Nine O’Clock War’. Ledger had simply returned from a shoot in Vancouver and stated he was drained. They deliberate to fulfill the subsequent day after Ledger had a therapeutic massage. Kapur was staying along with his buddy, the creator and different drugs practitioner Deepak Chopra.

“I remember going home and Deepak Chopra sat me down. He said, ‘Heath Ledger is dead.’ And I said, ‘What do you mean, he’s dead? He’s coming to see me soon.’ Then we switched on the television,” Kapur stated.

He continued, “And then I got a call from the New York police. They said that the last call on his cell phone was mine. And what do I know about it? I think they were just trying to examine the circumstances of his passing.”

As per Variety, Kapur emphasised that he and Ledger had “became extraordinarily close at that time.”

The outlet reviews that he acknowledged, “When he said yes to the Joker, and I thought about how did he find the Joker inside him? Actually, the Joker is famous not because of his cruelty, but because of his compassion. When you see that there is a man that is killing people, and yet there is in the eyes compassion and understanding and wisdom. And so he related.”

“I think it must have taken a lot out of him — to believe that you are the Joker, which is what he would always do. He would believe in what he was doing and saying and playing on screen. It must have devastated him,” Kapur stated.

According to the filmmaker, Ledger despatched him preliminary sketches of the Joker character, however as soon as filming started, he turned fully immersed in character, reported Variety.

Ledger had a quick however promising profession as a number one man, incomes Oscar and BAFTA nominations for finest actor for Ang Lee’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’ (2005).

On January 22, 2008, he was discovered useless on the age of 28. He went on to win each the Oscar and the BAFTA for finest supporting actor in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight’.

WASHINGTON: Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, who directed Heath Ledger within the 2002 epic ‘The Four Feathers’, lately remembered the late actor on his fifteenth dying anniversary.

According to Variety, an American media firm, on the time of Ledger’s dying, Kapur was working with him on a satire on the media titled ‘The Nine O’Clock War’ and was one of many final individuals to talk with the actor.

“Heath and I became very close. He used to write to me and he called me my brother from another mother, we became that close.” Kapur informed Variety.

The filmmaker stated he travelled to New York to fulfill Ledger to debate ‘The Nine O’Clock War’. Ledger had simply returned from a shoot in Vancouver and stated he was drained. They deliberate to fulfill the subsequent day after Ledger had a therapeutic massage. Kapur was staying along with his buddy, the creator and different drugs practitioner Deepak Chopra.

“I remember going home and Deepak Chopra sat me down. He said, ‘Heath Ledger is dead.’ And I said, ‘What do you mean, he’s dead? He’s coming to see me soon.’ Then we switched on the television,” Kapur stated.

He continued, “And then I got a call from the New York police. They said that the last call on his cell phone was mine. And what do I know about it? I think they were just trying to examine the circumstances of his passing.”

As per Variety, Kapur emphasised that he and Ledger had “became extraordinarily close at that time.”

The outlet reviews that he acknowledged, “When he said yes to the Joker, and I thought about how did he find the Joker inside him? Actually, the Joker is famous not because of his cruelty, but because of his compassion. When you see that there is a man that is killing people, and yet there is in the eyes compassion and understanding and wisdom. And so he related.”

“I think it must have taken a lot out of him — to believe that you are the Joker, which is what he would always do. He would believe in what he was doing and saying and playing on screen. It must have devastated him,” Kapur stated.

According to the filmmaker, Ledger despatched him preliminary sketches of the Joker character, however as soon as filming started, he turned fully immersed in character, reported Variety.

Ledger had a quick however promising profession as a number one man, incomes Oscar and BAFTA nominations for finest actor for Ang Lee’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’ (2005).

On January 22, 2008, he was discovered useless on the age of 28. He went on to win each the Oscar and the BAFTA for finest supporting actor in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight’.