The Joker did not kill Heath Ledger, says The Dark Knight star’s sister in documentary
Playing the Joker, for him it was one big gag. He had so much fun doing that, Kate Ledger says in I Am Heath Ledger, documentary about life of Australian actor who died aged 28 nine years ago
An untimely death, especially a famous one, can colour the truth.
I Am Heath Ledger, a new documentary about the actor supported by his family, dispels one common rumour: The Joker did not bring the Australian actor down.
“Honestly, that’s been the biggest thing for us as a family,” says Kate Ledger, Heath’s elder sister, by phone. “He had an amazing sense of humour and certainly playing The Joker, for him it was one big gag. He had so much fun doing that. It was actually the exact opposite. There was no doom and gloom. … That was a shock to me that people even thought that, really.”
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