The Dark Knight Director Christopher Nolan Pays Tribute To Heath Ledger

Since Heath Ledger’s shock passing, there have been many celebrity tributes to the actor although none have been so beautiful and moving as this one from Newsweek which has been written by Christopher Nolan, the director of The Dark Knight and the very last person to wrap on a movie with Heath Ledger.

The tribute below is one of the most heartfelt and poignant I’ve read.

Heath was bursting with creativity. It was in his every gesture. He once told me that he liked to wait between jobs until he was creatively hungry. Until he needed it again. He brought that attitude to our set every day. There aren’t many actors who can make you feel ashamed of how often you complain about doing the best job in the world. Heath was one of them.

When you get into the edit suite after shooting a movie, you feel a responsibility to an actor who has trusted you, and Heath gave us everything. As we started my cut, I would wonder about each take we chose, each trim we made. I would visualize the screening where we’d have to show him the finished film—sitting three or four rows behind him, watching the movements of his head for clues to what he was thinking about what we’d done with all that he’d given us. Now that screening will never be real. I see him every day in my edit suite. I study his face, his voice. And I miss him terribly.”

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