How much do you think playing the Joker affected Heath Ledger?

Oh no,I haven't watched the film yet.I think I need to watch it quickly and then I can answer your question:D

I didn't see the Batman movie so i don't know anything about this movie. but my son used to see all like these kind of movies.

I'm sooo... sorry for coming in so late. But I agree with you completely. The performance of Heath as Joker is really unbelievable.

According to numerous accounts from different actors this role affected Heath tremendously. It's admirable that he took his work so seriously, but there is a fine line, especially when you have children to consider. His story is such a sad one. I didn't see the movie this weekend, but I'll make it a point to see it next weekend. Honestly, I mainly going to see him because the trailers for the movie just didn't grab me.

I watched it last night too. He was soo good. Very convincing. I almost cried at one point, knowing that someone as good an actor as him is no longer around in the industry. I think he got so into the Joker character. I read something from www.perezhilton.com earlier and Verne Troyer (Mini Me) spoke something about Heath Ledger. Here's the link: http://perezhilton.com/2008-07-16-mini-me-opens-up As for Troyer's co-star, Heath Ledger, in the upcoming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the tiny actor has some comments on the situation. Verne says, “I don’t believe that he was troubled. Everyone knew that he had a hard time sleeping and from working in the cold weather in London—we were out in the rain and things like that—so everybody got sick, to a certain extent.” As for Ledger's involvement in The Dark Knight, he adds, "He couldn’t sleep because he was so wrapped up in the character of Joker in Batman. He was still going through not sleeping because he was so involved in that. Throughout our shoot it was the same way. He wasn’t, for me, depressed enough to even think about taking his own life. It was an accident, it happened and it’s very unfortunate.” Verne even got a tattoo to remember Ledger! Turns out that Verne and his co-star, Lily Cole , got a tattoo made of a heart that Heath had drawn on a piece of paper. Troyer says, “A lot of people from the cast and crew got a tattoo of it somewhere, of that heart, just thinking of Heath and respecting him.”