Michael Caine was ‘terrified’ by Heath Ledger's Joker transformation
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Michael Caine recalled working with Heath Ledger on the 2008 superhero movie "The Dark Knight" and how the late actor's portral of the Joker "terrified" him.
"He was a lovely guy, very gentle and unassuming," Caine wrote of Ledger, via Entertainment Weekly. "I wondered how he was going to play the Joker, especially as Jack Nicholson’s take had been so iconic. Brilliantly, Heath ramped up the character’s psychotic side rather than going for one-liners. His Joker was deeply, deeply warped and damaged, though you never find out exactly why, or what he’s really looking for." Ashley Hume is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to ashley.hume@fox.com and on Twitter: @ashleyhume
Caine played Bruce Wayne's trusty butler Alfred Pennyworth in 2005's "Batman Begins," the first installment of Christopher Nolan's trilogy. The two-time Academy Award winner reprised his role in the sequel "The Dark Knight" and the franchise's third and final film, 2012's "The Dark Knight Rises."
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