Heath Ledger - Cheeky & Smirky [Heath & Jake] #17: "He's constantly around." -Jake - Page 2

**fly me to the moon** · 04-05-2016, 04:53 PM

Aww, I didn't know that it's his birthday!

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We need to both practice more, Steph!

At my job, they have the pool and I want to try it out, but I can't. .

jakesprincess · 04-06-2016, 08:24 AM

must always be a tough day

he talked about Heath again.

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Jake Gyllenhaal on Heath Ledger's Death: 'It Affected Me in Ways I Can't Put Into Words'

"Personally, it affected me in ways I can't necessarily put in words or even would want to talk about publicly," Gyllenhaal, 35, told PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly editorial director Jess Cagle about Ledger's death in the latest edition of The Jess Cagle Interview. "In terms of professionally, I think I was at an age where mortality was not always clear to me."

Gyllenhaal had just turned 27 when Ledger died from accidental prescription drug intoxication, and he had not lost a lot of friends up until that point.

"I think you live in this bubble, too, of making films ... There are real friends, and there is a real community," he said of the experience. "There is also that [new Macklemore song] where he says, 'The curtain closes and nobody notices' ... I think that's true, and I think that's okay. But I think at the time, I assumed everyone would notice – and they did with Heath dying, but I think it [gave me] the experience of, 'This is fleeting.' And none of the attention or synthesized love that comes from the success of a film really matters at all. What matters is the relationships you make when you make a film, and the people you learn from when you're preparing for a film. That changed a lot for me."

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