[Perdogg]

Inquiring minds ping! ;)

[brooklyn dave]

What if Ledger wanted to play an anti-Semitic drunk?

[cripplecreek]

Role is the operative word here. After all R Lee Ermy played a gay football coach who married Jack Black.

[ClearCase_guy]

It is perhaps interesting that Heath Ledger got advice from Jack Nicholson and didn't take it (Jack said after the death "I told him so" -- whatever that really means).

And Heath got advice from Mel Gibson and didn't take it.

The whole thing is a shame, but if industry giants were giving me advice, I'd gratefully take it.

[Vision]

He had to be unstable to take that role.

[the OlLine Rebel]

This is not surprising.

It’s very disappointing to me, too.

[napscoordinator]

I wonder why people are taking this movie as reason why he died. If he committed suicide during the filming of Brokeback Mountain or died of an overdose shortly after the film came out I could maybe see a connection. The movie was out years ago (at least 3) and he has done plenty of movies since. Jake Gellehaul (spell?) seems to be fine so I don’t see any possible way that this movie had anything whatsoever to do with his death which from what has been in the news is going to be an accident.

[dmz]

LOL. Somebody says that somebody else told them that Mel Gibson said something.

That ices it for me. It’s a fact.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

“The role apparently ran counter to Gibson’s morality. And he felt that it would ruin Heath’s career.”

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Evidently, Mel Gibson was right.

[Veto!]

A pretend gay cowboy dissed by a real nasty drunk. Only in Ho-wood.

[shield]

Because Heath played a homo most folks thought he was one. Mel was right.