Remembering Heath Ledger

'The Celebrity Interview That Still Haunts Me Today'

May 30, 2014, 10:29 am

 

They're paid to hang out with the A-list, but what effect does spending their working day with the biggest names in Hollywood have on the journalists sent to profile them? Here, Megan Lehmann reveals why a past interview with Heath Ledger still haunts her today.

 

WHEN Heath Ledger, then 22, walked into a hotel suite on Manhattan's Park Avenue in early 2001, his relief at hearing an Australian accent was unmistakable. "G'day," he mumbled, gratefully.

The tousle-haired actor was young and beautiful and seemed as cocksure as I was shy. Newly arrived from Brisbane, I'd just started writing for a New York newspaper. Ledger had returned from a globetrotting dream run. In 18 months he'd shot three movies, only to find that Hollywood had anointed him its newest leading man - whether he liked it or not.
Columbia Pictures had decided that a combination of acting talent and surfer-boy looks made him the Next Big Thing and that their latest film, A Knights Tale, would be sold on the strength of his obvious physical appeal.
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