It is always a shock when one of the young and beautiful people dies. Heath Ledger, 28, who recently finished playing The Joker in The Dark Knight and was making another film, was found dead in his apartment in New York Tuesday. While it has not been confirmed, several media outlets have reported that there were pills scattered on the floor around him. If he did indeed die from pills, either on purpose, or by accident, what a tragedy. He has a little girl by his estranged girlfriend Michelle Williams. We won’t find out for some time what the real story was behind this death, but it made me think immediately of River Phoenix and his senseless death. Heath Ledger has fought his entire career against being stereotyped as a pretty boy despite his good looks. He proved he had serious acting chops with his wonderful performance in Brokeback Mountain.
This really sucks.