Heath Ledger

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q40572: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003). Count them as actor (6 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Titanic (1997): 1 line

unmapped (shared-technology) · through Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), which they were tied to as considered for Maturin: Titanic ⇒ Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (the host's read). The film exists because James Cameron's Mexican Titanic tank, with a gimbal, was still usable for the ship set.
“James Cameron had done the legwork to build out the system to be able to basically shoot this on a gimbal in a tank of a proper set.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:30:47 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (7) everyone in acting

actor, Monster's Ball (The Rewatchables, ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin)
actor, Brokeback Mountain (The Rewatchables, ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
actor, 10 Things I Hate About You (The Rewatchables, ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins)
actor, I'm Not There (The Big Picture, ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics)
actor (Joker), The Dark Knight (The Big Picture, The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35))
Joker, The Dark Knight (Blank Check — Patreon, The Lego Batman Movie)
actor (the role Bettany was written for), A Knight's Tale (Blank Check — Patreon, Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman)

Other (1) everyone in other

considered for Maturin, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman)

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

people (people): The Dark Knight → Heath Ledger. Ledger's Joker is the main reason the Nolan trilogy is still discussed positively.
“Heath Ledger was, is the main reason that we still talk about those movies at all in a positive way.”
The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:37:36 · David Shoemaker (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

theme (theme): Chadwick Boseman → Heath Ledger. Sean says the only comparable unexpected Hollywood losses in 20 years were Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
“the only 2 examples I could think of really in the last 20 years that were even close to this were obviously Heath Ledger and and Philip Seymour Hoffman's deaths”
The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:07:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

what-if (what-if): The Dark Knight → Heath Ledger. Ledger's death took the Batman/Joker relationship off the board; what might Nolan's plans have been?
“what would have happened if Heath Ledger lived, what could their plans have been?”
The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:38:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.