Vad kan vara den viktigaste faktorn som övertygade att The Dark Knight casting direktörer bestämmer att Heath Ledger kommer att spela The Joker's roll?
Från IMDB:
Despite endless speculation on which actor had been chosen to portray The Joker, Heath Ledger had always been Christopher Nolan's one and only choice for the role. When asked the reason for this unexpected casting, Nolan simply replied, "Because he's fearless." He later said that the two had met up to discuss it before there was even a script for the film.
Här är en bra intervju jag hittade som avslöjar hur Heath Ledger valdes av Nolan. Han gav denna intervju för en timme lång Q & A på Film Society of Lincoln Center i New York City. Där diskuterade han om det inflytande som James Bond-filmer har haft på honom, hans erfarenhet av att arbeta med Heath Ledger, hans passion för banbrytande IMAX-teknik och att producera nästa års Superman-omstart, "Man of Steel".
I den intervjun han delade hur han valde Heathe Ledger:
On casting the late Heath Ledger as the Joker:
Really, in a sense, Heath chose me. I met Heath for a couple of films -- I actually met him in relation to Batman, as well, because I was meeting kind of every young actor. He very graciously came and met me for a drink and began to explain why he would never do this kind of movie. [Laughs] But he was very polite. He was really just a lovely guy, and so I thought, "Well, shame I can't convince you, but this is what we're trying to do with this thing.' I think when he saw "Batman Begins," he'd probably remembered the things I'd said about what I was going to try to do, and he felt that I'd done it, so I met with him for the Joker. I didn't know whether it was something he'd be interested in, but I sat and chatted with him in my office for a couple of hours. We didn't have a script at that point, but -- my brother was writing it at the time, and we knew kind of where that was going to go, and it was very much what Heath had in mind. And he just was determined to do it. He just had a vision for something, and the way he termed it to me at the time was, he really didn't like to work too much. He liked to do a character and then stop working then let enough time go by. He wanted to be hungry for it. And when he came to me, he was clearly in that state: Very hungry. He was ready to do something like that and just own it -- which is what he did.
Så här gjordes gjutningen av Heathe Ledger som Joker. Han delade också på processen för att förbereda sig för och förverkliga Ledgers omvandling till Joker och på de tekniska (och kommunikativa) svårigheterna bakom Ledgers första scen som Joker i samma intervju .
Från denna intervju från Nolan på IGN är jag säker på att Nolan själv ville kasta Heath Ledger som Joker. Han säger att han ville arbeta med Heath på tidigare projekt, men kunde inte. Han och Heath delade en karaktärsporträtt av Joker och det var så han kastades i filmen.
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