Heath Ledger nominated for an Oscar

None of us really "knows" a celebrity, public figure, actor or musician unless we've met and spent time and gotten to ask a few questions and spent fun time with someone...
But this interview says so much about the media hype, impressions, death and life of WA's Heath Ledger who died 12 months ago and has just been nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at this year's Academy Awards!! This is of course for his role as 'The Joker' in 'The Dark Knight'
Heath's family have been at pains to counter the stories about the mental and emotional effect of this work on Heath Ledger by emphasising this quote that he'd had 'the most fun' playing the Joker.
What you'll also notice in this interview I would interpret as a shy young man who loves to act but hates to talk about it, himself and anything other than getting on with the job. A person who left Sydney's northern beaches to live in Brooklyn and then Manhattan to escape the invasive media.
There's no doubt Heath Ledger took drugs, enjoyed the escape of WA, family and the growing significance of the life of his daughter Matilda...
His accidental death [which his insurance company refuses to pay out] was a tragedy and it'll be a huge shock if he is not recognised in February with one of those amazing little statuettes!! Who really cares, well as a movie freak I love what they represent [as rigged as the voting may be] and enjoy seeing actors be themselves at awards shows vs the confidence and clarity of the characters they portray.
Likewise across the world young people lose their lives each day to road accidents, drownings, drugs, illness and most culpably lack of food and clean water. It's a crazy world where people will visit a Manhattan apartment block this week to place flowers on a sidewalk with candles, photos and posters of a movie star and yet every three seconds a child somewhere in the world dies from preventable causes.
The loss of Heath Ledger is no less tragic, it's just a reminder of the false nature of a world of celebrity.