Heath Ledger as "The Joker" in THE DARK KNIGHT

In this episode, Bo and Caitlin talk about The Dark Knight, the Christopher Nolan-directed Batman movie that set 12-year-old Timmy on the path to acting greatness. He’s not in the film, but he loves Heath Ledger’s Joker enough that we decided to record an episode on it.

References

• “Timothée Chalamet Reveals How Heath Ledger’s ‘Dark Knight’ Performance Inspired Him To Act” (IndieWire, 2018)

• NYFCC Award Speech

• Heath Ledger IMDb Trivia

• MTV interview clip with Heath Ledger and Josh Horowitz

• Hospital explosion sequence (unscripted moment)

• Money toss oops

• The Dark Knight script

• “Timothée Chalamet Reveals How Heath Ledger’s ‘Dark Knight’ Performance Inspired Him To Act” (IndieWire, 2018)

• NYFCC Award Speech

• Heath Ledger IMDb Trivia

• MTV interview clip with Heath Ledger and Josh Horowitz

• Hospital explosion sequence (unscripted moment)

• Money toss oops

• The Dark Knight script

• “On Batman: Allegories of a faltering empire and the vagaries of an election” (Al Jazeera, original source of Goyer’s comments inaccessible)

Bonus

• “Behind The Scenes of The Dark Knight Trilogy” (WB, full documentary)
• “Christopher Nolan on Directing The Joker” (The Director’s Cut, 10 min.)
• Timmy on Heath with Josh Horowitz
• Timmy on Heath with Christopher Nolan