As we all know, the late Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker, for which he received a posthumous Oscar, has become legendary. Now, new insight to the preparation he went through for the role of the psychotic comic book villain has come to light with the below clip from documentary Too Young To Die.
The clip shows Ledger’s father thumbing through the diary the actor helped to get him in the right mind set for the role, and included many different elements that went to make the character whole, from torn out pictures from Batman comics to pictures of A Clockwork Orange, a major influence on the performance. It also features hand written dialogue from The Dark Knight script, and is a fascinating look at the creation of one of cinemas most enduring characters.
