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'Anarchic' Heath Ledger
03 July 2008
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Heath Ledger was "anarchic" in his portrayal of The Joker, 'his 'The Dark Knight' co-star says.The late actor stars opposite Christian Bale in the latest instalment of the Batman franchise and his co-star says he played the villain in a completely unique way.He told the LA Times newspaper: "We wanted to stay serious and dramatic with each of the portrayals of every single character. Heath was wonderful with that. He completely immersed himself and stayed under. "When he was the Joker he was the Joker throughout, absolute commitment to that. And he's portrayed him in a way that hasn't been portrayed before. " He has this kind of anarchic, punk, 'Clockwork Orange' approach to it. "He done such a damn good job that if Chris Nolan decides to make a third movie, he set himself a real challenge of how do you up the ante with any villain after Heath's Joker."Christian said he enjoyed working with Heath on the movie because they are very alike.He added: "I felt that I was seeing, in Heath, somebody who got the same enjoyment from acting that I do, and just recognised the ridiculousness of what we do as grown men, pretending to be other people, but loving that ridiculousness and loving the job all the more for that, and taking it all the more seriously, precisely because of that, and staying in character whilst we were inside of the garb. It was wonderful."
Heath died of an accidental drugs overdose in January.
'The Dark Knight' opens in cinemas later this month.
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