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Was Heath Ledger on anti depressants to help with his role as the joker?
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How did Heath Ledger die?
Heath Ledger died on January 22, 2008 at the age of 28.
What did Heath Ledger get in his big break in 1999?
* Born: 4 April 1979* Birthplace: Perth, Australia* Died: 22 January 2008 (accidental overdose)* Best Known As: The Brokeback Mountain star who died at age 28Name at birth: Heathcliff Andrew LedgerHeath Ledger was a rising 21st-century movie star until his shocking death in 2008. Ledger kicked off his career by playing the warrior hero Conor in the Dark Ages TV series Roar (1997). The series lasted only one season, but established Ledger as an up-and-coming heartthrob. He enhanced that reputation in the teen movie Ten Things I Hate About You (1999, with Julia Stiles), a loose retelling of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. He played the feisty son of fellow Australian Mel Gibson in The Patriot (2000) and returned to horseback for the jousting adventure A Knight's Tale (2001). He also played a fictionalized version of Jacob Grimm in the 2005 Terry Gilliam film The Brothers Grimm. The same year he co-starred in the daring western Brokeback Mountain (directed by Ang Lee), with Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal playing cowboys in love. Ledger was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on the afternoon of 22 January 2008. An autopsy determined that he had suffered an accidental overdose of prescribed anti-depressants, pain killers, and sleeping medications. Ledger had already finished filming his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight, a Batman film planned for release in July 2008.Ledger reportedly was named Heathcliff after the brooding figure in the Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights... Ledger and actress Michelle Williams are parents to a daughter, Matilda Rose, born in October 2005. The pair met while playing husband and wife in Brokeback Mountain; they were never married, and separated in 2007... Several drugs were mentioned in the medical examiner's report on Ledger's death. By brand name, they included: OxyContin, a painkiller; Xanax and Valium, both anti-anxiety drugs; and Restoril and Unisom, both sleeping aids.For the source and more detailed information concerning your request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below. Basically, Ledger's first real acting job was portraying a gay cyclist on the Australian TV show Sweat. Other landmarks of his early career include a role in the Australian movie Blackrock and the American TV series Roar. His "big break" was playing Patrick Verona in well-accepted teen movie 10 Things I Hate About You. Ledger was also noticed in his next role as Mel Gibson's son in The Patriot.
How did Heath Ledger get his scars?
There is much speculation as to how the Joker character received his scars. The most prominent answer seems to be that he either doesn't know, or doesn't want to say. In "The Dark Knight" he tells two stories about how he got them:Story OneSo, I had a wife, she was beautiful...like you, who tells me I worry too much, who tells me I oughta smile more, who gambles and gets in deep with the sharks...[she squirms, and he pulls her back] Hey. One day they carve her face. And we have no money for surgeries. She can't take it. I just want to see her smile again. Hmmm? I just wanted to let her know that I don't care about the scars. So, I stick a razor in my mouth and do this...to myself. [mimes moving a razor around his mouth] And you know what? She can't stand the sight of me! She leaves! Now I see the funny side. Now, I'm always smiling!Story Two"Wanna know how I got these scars? My father was...a drinker. And a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself; he doesn't like that. Not...one...bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and says..."Why so serious?" He comes at me with the knife, "Why so serious?!" He sticks the blade in my mouth, "Let's put a smile on that face!" And...[turns to look at one of Gambol's henchman who looks terrified, and then says]...why so serious? "Some have said that the exact reason for his scars is not as important as the reasons for the use of multiple stories. These scars may represent the result of some form of evil - or even a universal evil that exists in the world.In Alan Moore's "The Killing Joke," the first comic book to really explore the Joker's origin, the Joker explains his inability to correctly remember his past this way: "Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another ... If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!" Heath Ledger's Joker's varied history (he tries to tell Batman a third story) is most-likely an homage to one of Joker's most definitive origin stories.that answer is totally wrong if you really want to know he fell into a vat of chemicals that is how he got to be that wayIn the batman comics, the tell of the jokers origins are revealed. The joker used to be a mercenary who was the best shot around. He started getting depressed with his work because there was no challenge. Well one day he comes across batman and finds his true challenge and decides to pursue it. So to go about challenging himself he kidnaps batman's girlfriend at the time. As batman is going to rescue her the joker kills her, batman seeing his loved one die in front of him throws two batarangs at the joker, cutting the sides of his mouth, giving him his scars.Later in the same comic the joker is at a pharmaceutical plant for some reason. Some how he is knocked into a silo full of anti-depressants. The joker decides to accept death, and just before he's about to die he sees the grate in the bottom. It crosses his mind that he doesn't have to die, so he kicks out the grate and flows through the pipes that dump him out in the bay. The joker then swims ashore, his skin bleached white, his hair turned green, and his suit dyed purple. Laying on the shore he looks at the moon and sees a bunny on it. From then on the joker becomes the psychopath we all love.
What is a What are fact of Heath Ledger?
When a young, hunky 20 year old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of not much depth. He has spent the past five years trying desperately to sway this image away, but this has indeed been a double-edged sword. But that comes much later in his story. Heath Ledger was born on the fourth of April 1979, in Perth, Western Australia. As the story goes, in junior high it was compulsory to do one of two electives, either cooking or drama, and as Heath could honestly not see himself in a cooking class, he tried his hand at drama. Heath was talented, there was no denying that. However, the rest of the class did not acknowledge his talent, possibly out of jealousy. When he was 17, he and a friend, decided to pack up, leave school, take a car and rough it to Sydney. Heath believed Sydney to be the place where dreams are made, or at least, where actors can possibly get their big break. However, upon arriving in Sydney with a purported 69 cents to his name, Heath tried everything to get a break. His first real acting job came in a low budget movie calledBlackrock (1997), a largely unimpressive clich��; a teen angst film about one boy's struggle when he learns his best mate raped a girl. He did not have a large part in this movie. In fact, it was a very small one. The only thing of notice in his role is you get to see him get his lights punched out. After that small role, Heath auditioned for a role in a TV show called "Sweat" (1996) about a group of young Olympic hopefuls. He got offered one of two roles, one as a swimmer, another as a gay cyclist. Heath accepted the latter because he felt to really stand out as an actor one had to accept unique roles that stood out from the bunch. It got him small notice, but unfortunately the show was quickly axed, which led him to look for other roles. He was in "Home and Away" (1988) for a very short period, in which he played a surfer who falls in love with one of the girls of Summer Bay. Then came his very brief role in Paws (1997). Paws was a film which existed solely to cash in on guitar prodigy Nathan Cavaleri's brief moment of fame, where he was the hottest thing in Australia. Heath played a student in the film, involved in a stage production of a Shakespeare play, in which he played "Oberon". A very brief role, this did nothing other than give him a small paycheck, but nothing to advance his career. Also he was gay and loved a really gay guy named Nash thomas who also worked as a stripper in a gay strip club. Then came Two Hands (1999). He went to America trying to audition for film roles, showcasing his brief role in "Roar" (1997) opposite then unknown Vera Farmiga. He could not find any American roles but then Australian director Gregor Jordan auditioned him for the lead in Two Hands (1999), which he got. An in your face Aussie crime thriller, Two Hands (1999) was outstanding and helped him secure a role in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999). After that, it seemed Heath was being typecast as a teen hunk, which he did not like, so he accepted a role in a very serious war drama The Patriot (2000). What followed was a stark inconsistency of roles, Ledger accepting virtually every single character role, anything to avoid being typecast. Some met with praise, like his short role in Monster's Ball (2001), but his version of Ned Kelly (2003) was an absolute flop, which led distributors hesitant to even release it outside Australia. Heath finally had deserved success with his role in Brokeback Mountain (2005), for which he was nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA. Heath won the Oscar for his role in Brokeback Mountain posthumously. Ledger was found dead on January 22, 2008 in his apartment in the Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo, with a bottle of prescription sleeping pills nearby. It was concluded weeks later that he died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs that included painkillers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication.
When was Anti-Justine created?
Anti-Justine was created in 1798.
Can you use anti depressants as poison?
Too much of anything can be toxic or have adverse symptoms. Anti-Depressants have different classes for their mechanisms, so its too vague when you mentioned anti-depressants in general.
Can you inject anti depressants?
No
Depressants are drugs that are used to fight depression?
no, that would be ANTI-depressants....
Why are depressants often considered antidepressants?
Anti-depressants are named for their ability to treat depression (anti-depression). But in order for these medications to work, they typically decrease or "depress" the ability of the central nervous system (CNS) to respond to stimuli. For that reason, "depressants" are used as anti-depressants.
Who can provide anti depressants?
Doctors usually can proscribe anti depressants and other medications because you can't get those over the counter.
How did Heath Ledger die?
Heath Ledger died on January 22, 2008 at the age of 28.
When you take depressants does it make you more depressed?
You don't take depressants. You take anti-depressants, which counters being depressed.
How you can solve your problem?
Alcohol and anti-depressants.
What are the different types of chemotherapy in the biological approach?
Anti-depressants Anti-Anxiety Anti-psychotic
If you are detoxing from abuse of Oxycontin would it be detrimental to start taking anti-depressants?
Prescribed anti-depressants may be helpful in getting through the worst of the cravings.
What happens when anti depressants and oxycocet are mixed?
nothing
How can you solve your spiritual problem?
Alcohol and anti-depressants.
