Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney, Robin Williams and and and: Matt Damon has worked with all kinds of high-profile stars throughout his career. But one person stood out from this impressive group: Heath Ledger. In 2005, Damon played the eponymous fairy tale-collecting siblings in Terry Gilliam’s fantasy spectacle “Brothers Grimm” alongside the Australian, who died three years later.
And although the film had a very mixed reception at the time and did not gross much more than its budget at the box office, Damon still looks back on his collaboration with Ledger with great pleasure: “It was great,” said the now 53-year-old in a television report not long after Ledger’s tragic death due to an accidental dose of medication (via ): “I’m not exaggerating when I say this, but he’s the best actor I’ve ever worked with. [Sein Tod] is something I will never get over. He was truly a special man whose light was just too bright for this world.
Although these exact statements were made several years ago, Damon has subsequently repeated them in similar fashion several times, for example in an interview with Magazine in 2016. A few years earlier, in memory of Ledger, Damon also had the same tattoo on his upper arm as his co-star from “The Brothers Grimm” (a simple doodle of Ledger himself).
Matt Damon has opted out of ‘The Dark Knight’ role
But while Damon is still enthusiastic about Heath Ledger, who left us far too soon, he missed an opportunity to work with his beloved friend and colleague again three years after “The Brothers Grimm” – even on the project that Ledger posthumously gave him should yield. an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
For example, Matt Damon played the role of prosecutor Harvey Dent, who becomes Two-Face in the course of the film, in Christopher Nolan’s comedy masterpiece.The Dark Knightofferedin which Ledger famously starred as the villain Joker. Ultimately, the “Bourne” star had to cancel due to scheduling issuesas he would simultaneously be making a film where his role was bigger than Dent’s in “The Dark Knight” (which one is unclear, though).
Aaron Eckhart eventually took over the role of Damon, but even if nothing came of meeting again, no one can take away Matt Damon’s fond memory of his time with Heath Ledger in “The Brothers Grimm.”