Hollywood legend Jack Nicholson says he cautioned Heath Ledger before his fellow Joker actor’s death. A cryptic Jack Nicholson admitted he had a heart-to-heart meeting with Heath Ledger before the 28-year-old actor suddenly died.
“I warned him!” Nicholson blurted to reporters outside a posh London restaurant after he was told of the tragic news. “That’s awful,” he said, pausing to take a drag on a cigarette.
The movie legend was dining at the Wolseley restaurant in London when a photographer told him about Heath’s passing.
Nicholson in London to promote new movie The Bucket List, replied “I warned him” then later said “I told him so”.
“Let me be the way I’m not in interviews. I’m furious. I’m furious [he laughs]. They never asked me about a sequel with the Joker. I know how to do that nobody ever asked me.”
“Just pretend I’m not here,” he said before he turned on his heels and went back inside.
The actor, who was wearing sunglasses at the premiere, said: “I took Ambien once. I fell asleep and then got a call and almost drove off a cliff 50 yards from my house.”
Reports have suggested that Ledger may have found playing the Joker role in the new Batman movie too much, and that the part left him unable to sleep. Ledger had acknowledged that his brooding character drained him physically and mentally and caused him to have trouble sleeping, a condition for which he said he took prescription pills.
Called Ambien in the US, the tablet is marketed as Stilnox in Australia and hit headlines last year when a national drug hotline fielded calls from users reporting strange side-effects.
About 500 people described odd behaviours from walking, crashing cars, having sex and falling from balconies after popping a pill.
Nicholson said:”I took Ambien once. I fell asleep and then got a call and almost drove off a cliff 50 yards from my house.”
Nicholson and fellow star Morgan Freeman later gave their condolences.
“It’s a great loss to the industry, he was an enormous movie talent, it sounds like a tragic accident,” Freeman said. - Melbourne Herald
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