This week Heath Ledger, the Australian actor who died in January, was honoured with a supreme award by the Australian Film Institute for his brilliant performance as the Joker in the Batman movie, The Dark Knight.
This reminded me of a happy meeting I had with him in early 2004 when he visited the set in Sydney where I was doing a fashion shoot with Naomi Watts for Harper’s Bazaar. Instead of merely spectating he asked if he may work the wind machine. I doubt if he had ever operated one before but he quickly got the hang of it and turned the occasion into a humorous performance that had us all in stitches. What a very special human being he was.
This is one of the pictures I took on that day.
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