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"That time in my career was a funny one, " says Ledger, who with his shaved head has grown into a more sophisticated kind of hand- some than his original bleach blond image would have predicted.
"Decisions were being made for me.
Suddenly, without deserving it, I felt like I had a career handed to me on a big plate.
I didn't know how to act.
I was starving yesterday, and now I'm being prepped for something.
I felt like I was becoming a product, like a bottle of Coca-Cola I knew my work wasn't good enough yet to be seen on a mass level.
I wanted to take it back a few steps.
I made a real effort to destroy the glossy cover that I was getting put on.
louis vuitton replica That explains why he took the role of a nineteenth-century British soldier in Elizabeth director Shekhar Kapur's The Four Feathers (2002), which nobody but the Ledger family saw, and turned down a very lucrative deal as Spider-Man.
Instead, he signed on for a small part as Billy Bob Thornton's son in Monster's Ball (2001), specifically for the scene in which his character kills himself in the living room easy chair.
"I wanted to do that to my career, " he says.
"I wanted to shoot myself in the head and start over.
I felt like it was somehow going to help me have a rebirth.
" Unorthodox as it sounds, the plan worked.
In addition to directors like Lee, who formance caught the saw him differently from then on, Louis Vuitton Briefcase Replica per- formance caught the attention of Skip Engblom, one of the godfathers of skateboarding whose life as a 1970s Venice Beach surf shop owner was being turned into Lords of Dogtown (2005).
The film’ s director, Catherine Hardwicke, asked Engblom who should play him.
When he said Ledger, "I almost fell over, " Hardwicke says.
"I was like, `Yeah, and I want Penelope Cruz to play me-? "' To their amazement, Ledger, who grew up surfing and skate- boarding in Australia, wanted the role.
He squeezed in the shoot between filming The Brothers Grimm (2005) and Broke back after shadowing Engblomto perfect his signature stoner cadence.
For those who feel Ledger's performance mimics Val Kilmer's Jim Morrison in The Doors, Hardwicke offers an alternative theory: that the Venice Beach-based louis vuitton artsy mm replica may have been imitating Engblom, with whom he hung out back in the day.
"People felt like a real family making this film, " Hardwicke says, noting that Ledger mentored the young actors and turned his trailer area into "Camp Heath, " complete with lawn chairs and tiki torches.
When Engblom mentioned that he never should have gotten rid of his car, which was nearly identical to the '49 Cadillac Ledger drives in the film, the actor secretly bought it from the prop department for him.
"He didn’ t even tell me, " Engblom says.
"It was pretty amazing.
F--ck, are you kidding? I started crying.
" Near the end of the shoot, Ledger took Engblom aside.
"He said, `You know I'm going off to play a homosexual cowboy.



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