Heath Ledger

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Other news IGN has released more pictures from the Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. These include images of Colin Farrell, Jude Law and Johnny Depp as well as Heath Ledger. Includes pictures from IHJ. Sunglasses modelled by Jake Gyllenhaal.

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Maggie Gyllenhaal is also in the magazines - Away We Go opens in the UK on 18 September and to mark the release Maggie makes a striking cover girl for October's edition of Marie Claire. See below for quotes about Jake and Heath Ledger. You can watch a video from the Marie Claire London shoot here.

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) If people want to say I'm brave for doing `Brokeback Mountain,' hey, I'll take the credit," Gyllenhaal says now with a smile. "But bravery is about not wanting to do something and doing it anyway. A story that feels new, that feels alive, with a director at the helm who you know is going to steer...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Two cowboy shirts worn by actors Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in the movie Brokeback Mountain are heading to The Autry National Center in Los Angeles. The two shirts have been intertwinded to represent "the struggle between heritage and acceptance in gay cowboy culture."'

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) The video below captures a little of the atmosphere during Gilliam's discussion of his film and of his 'lucky charm' Heath Ledger. And what about Jake? Yesterday a twitter spotted Jake Gyllenhaal at the Jim Henson lot in LA, suggesting Jake is intriguingly busy...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Brokeback Mountain had a stills photographer, Kimberley French, who has the gift of melting into the background and being tolerated and liked and admired by actors. Her photography on the set - especially her images of Heath with whom she had a special connection - led to the instantly rec...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) One of the many remarkable aspects of Brokeback Mountain, and the credit for this belongs as much to Ang Lee as it does to Jake Gyllenhaal, is how Jake was transformed from cityboy to cowboy. It wasn't easy for Jake, who had to get used to a lot more than just riding a horse that might throw him of...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Talking of sheep, thank heavens this didn't happen: 'According to actor Jake Gyllenhaal, director Ang Lee was going to delete a scene in which Gyllenhaal and co-star Heath Ledger kissed because the filmmaker felt 'two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on scree...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Jake Gyllenhaal to Backstage: 'Look, I feel like Peter Sarsgaard supported me in Jarhead, and I feel like I'm supporting Heath here. I don't know you're supposed to qualify or quantify it, but Heath really carried the story through. I do believe that he's leading the way...'

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Heath Ledger won, and you can see the moment - and the emotion - here. Unfortunately, David Fincher didn't win (nor did Anne Hathaway) but big congratulations to Kate Winslet (a local girl!) for her double victory! Here is a full list of winners.

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Today is World Aids Day - the 20th - and, on a day of remembering how the world and love within it has changed over these last decades, it seems fitting to look briefly at one film in particular, which focused on fitting an extraordinary love into lives that could have had no comprehension of w...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Back in January 2006, Ang Lee's peers in the Directors Guild selected Brokeback Mountain as its film of 2005. And, graciously, Ang said of his competitors: 'We're winners because we're blessed. We're filmmakers. We make movies together, we celebrate together. What a life!' Jake Gyllenhaa...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Obviously there would have been no Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar without Annie Proulx, but it is also just as certain that neither Ang Lee nor Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger would have been drawn to Brokeback Mountain if it had not been for the dedication, sheer will and genius of Larry McMu...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) The interviewer rehearsed to camera and did a rolecall for those attending and said Maggie Gyllenhaal but with a hard G. I wasn't having that! So I yelled out 'That's Jill-enhaal, not Gill-enhaal!' And he got it right for the rest of the evening.

Henny tells us: "I shot Jake in Toronto in 2005. He was there for Brokeback Mountain and there was alot of buzz around him," Garfunkel remembers of a playful Gyllenhaal. "Anne Hathaway, Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams were all in the room while I was shooting and someone came in and told th...