“Years later I showed the image to Heath Ledger while he was preparing to play the Joker in The Dark Knight, and he instantly sparked to its tortured and torturing humanity. It informed the ...

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Michael Caine reflected on working with the late Heath Ledger during ... he was initially skeptical about Ledger's casting as Batman's classic nemesis The Joker, only to be later blown away ...

When it comes to the many Joker portrayals over the years, it’s pretty much universally accepted that Heath Ledger blew us away more than any other actor with 2008’s The Dark Knight.

Heath Ledger had just wrapped playing The Joker in 2008’s “The Dark Knight” when he moved on to work with Andrew Garfield in “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” — and he knew the DC ...

People often judge the book by its cover, but Heath Ledger’s Joker will always be a great example of how it’s worth waiting for a production to premiere before forming a genuine opinion.

In his memoir, Caine opens up about filming 'The Dark Knight' with Ledger, who died in 2008 Sharareh Drury is a writer on the Movies team at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2025 and has worked for ...

Heath Ledger won a posthumous award at the 2009 Golden Globes, taking home the Best Supporting Actor for his role as Joker in The Dark Knight, while in 2020, Joaquin Phoenix won the Golden Globe ...

“He is very, very scary,” Michael Caine told Empire about Ledger’s Joker. “I turned up and had to do a bit where Batman and I watch a video done by the Joker to threaten us. I had never ...