Nolan ended up casting Christian Bale as Wayne, who drew universal acclaim and became an A-list star on the strength of his performance. All of it made Ledger very interested. After watching the film, he actively lobbied to play the Joker in the sequel and Nolan cast him before the script was even written. The results made movie history, and a tragic final act to a performer who departed too soon.
They also demonstrate how seemingly inevitable casting choices can turn on small things. Had Ledger shown an interest in playing Wayne, the resulting film and its legacy might have looked very different. A native Californian, Rob Vaux has been a critic and entertainment writer for over 20 years, including work for Collider, Mania.
This led to a starring role in the historical fantasy series Roar, costarring Keri Russell and backed by financiers in the United States. The series was nominated for several awards and exposed Ledger to American audiences and Fox executives.
On the urging of then-girlfriend Liza Zane who also appeared in the series, Ledger sought out an American agent and followed Zane back to Los Angeles at the age of The film was a cult success among younger audiences. Despite his young age and relative inexperience, he was soon beating out the Hollywood elite for major roles in blockbuster films.
And the highly experimental A Knight's Tale displayed Ledger's abilities as a true leading man. His exposure in these films, coupled with his growing reputation as a Hollywood playboy, led People magazine to name Ledger one of it's "50 Most Beautiful People" in Ledger worked steadily on independent films until when he was once again thrust into the spotlight with his contribution to one of the most controversial films to date.
The two began a whirlwind relationship, and their daughter, Matilda Rose, was born on October 28, , in New York City. Problems with paparazzi in Australia prompted Ledger to sell his residence in Bronte, New South Wales, and move to the United States, where he shared an apartment with Williams in Brooklyn, from to On January 22, , Ledger was found unconscious in his bed by his housekeeper, Teresa Solomon, and his masseuse, Diana Wolozin, at his apartment in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan.
Emergency medical technicians arrived at Ledger's apartment at p. At p. Soon after Ledger's death reached the news, erroneous reports began to surface, incorrectly claiming that the apartment he was in belonged to Olsen. It was later reported by People magazine that Diana Wolozin who found Ledger unconscious had called Olsen before calling authorities because Olsen and Ledger had been casually dating in the months before his death.
Ledger had told The New York Times in November that he was taking Ambien, a prescription medication used for the short-term treatment of insomnia. He discussed the difficulty that he was having with portraying the Joker in the upcoming Batman movie The Dark Knight , a character he described as a "psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy.
There is also shading of the lone wolf, the usually male gunman who inexplicably pulls the trigger. Some men just want to watch the world burn. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! The mental image of the character slipping his tongue out of the corner of his mouth, like a cobra, and licking his scars—a tic Ledger invented to keep his prosthetics in place while upping the creep factor—has stayed with us like a subconscious boogeyman.
Both tales are of course lies, transparent manipulations intended to prey upon perceived vulnerabilities in his victims. The Nolan brothers understand the horror of this, and they keep the Joker a manipulative and inscrutable evil.
That mystery makes him live on in our own heads for years after the story ends and the credits roll. Rather than find satisfaction in the inexplicability of evil, or standalone visions, we like to rationalize it and sympathize with it, even while glorifying it. Most of all, however, we insatiably seem to simply have more.
The need for endless content being generated by intellectual property has led to prequels, sequels, and even spinoffs that explore and too often redeem villains.
Even the Joker himself is not wholly immune to this. Since , there have been two big screen versions of the Joker.
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