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Dec 2011 28

by Daniel Robert Epstein

“There’s something very universal about people who spend all day and night on horseback. Right down to their physical aspect. Once they get off the horse it still looks like there’s a horse between their legs.”
– Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger became a teen idol with roles in 10 Things I Hate About You and A Knight’s Tale. But his choices after that were too eclectic to hold onto that audience and thank god for that because now he’’s had his best year ever. He started off starring in the Terry Gilliam film The Brothers Grimm, delivered a mesmerizing performance in Lords of Dogtown and finished off the year with a role as Ennis, the gay cowboy, in Brokeback Mountain – a role that has garnered him his first Oscar nomination.

Read our exclusive interview with Heath Ledger on SuicideGirls.com.

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  1. […] to lower budgeted filmmaking with Brokeback Mountain. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger (see SG interview) as two ranchhands who have a passionate love affair over 20 years to the detriment of their […]