Actor Heath Ledger, of "Brokeback Mountain," "10 Things I Hate About You," "A Knight's Tale" and the soon to be released "The Dark Knight," was found dead in his lower Manhattan apartment.
UPDATE: 1/23
According to the NY Times, Ledger said in a interview last November that portraying the Joker, a character whom he called a "psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy," caused him to have trouble sleeping.
"Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night," Ledger said during the fall interview. "I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going."
He noted that he had been taking Ambien, a prescription only sleep aid, yet his recommended dosage of two pills would only last an hour.
Principal photography on “The Dark Knight” finished in the fall and the film is still set to premiere July 18th. However, it has been rumored that Warner Bros. will change the marketing scheme for "The Dark Knight." Switching the focus from the "Why So Serious" tag line with various "ghoulish" pictures of the Joker, to a second phase campaign with focus on other characters within the movie.
Actor Heath Ledger, of "Brokeback Mountain," "10 Things I Hate About You," "A Knight's Tale" and the soon to be released "The Dark Knight," was found dead in his lower Manhattan apartment.