Serendipity

I was woken at 2.45am this morning by a text from amybrown584 (who is currently living it up in the future in Oz) with a message that simply said:

Heath Ledger is Dead :(

I think I must have thought I was dreaming or something because I think I just went back to sleep. It was only when I got up this morning and switched on the telly to have BBC News showing him being put into a ambulance that I realised just how horrible and real it is.

It's just so surreal. He's even younger than me. People younger than me don't just die. It's awful.

My love of A Knight's Tale and Ten Things I Hate About You are fairly well known in RL but I don't think quite so well known by you lot on here. So I've had Heath Ledger on my list of actors I luff for quite a while. (Actually since he was in Home and Away probably). I was really looking forward to seeing him in Batman Begins especially after the way everyone's bigged up how ace he is in it. Now it's just going to be really, really weird.

He always came across in interviews as a really nice and affable chap, and he was never caught falling out of clubs and stuff like a lot of 'talent' his age. However, he was one of those actors who really worked at keeping his public and private lives seperate, who knows what really went on. :( Maybe it was really all a terrible, tragic accident. I really hope so.

Most of all I feel sorry for his poor little daughter, who's going to grow up only knowing her daddy through his films. :(

ETA: There's even been a tribute on icanhascheezeburger.com

And this is how I'm going to remember him, singing my favourite song in a scene that still raises a smile.