Heath Ledger’s experience working with Jake Gyllenhaal was nothing short of amazing. “Wonderful,” he said of his co-star in a 2005 MovieWeb interview. “I couldn’t have asked for a better person. He comes from a beautiful family and he’s a wonderful actor.” However, it wasn’t “Brokeback Mountain” that made them so close in the first place —it was because of their string of failed auditions for Baz Luhrmann’s film, “Moulin Rouge.”
“When Ewan was cast, I finally met Heath and we sort of became friends before Brokeback Mountain based on our mutual frustration,” Gyllenhaal told GQ Australia in 2018. “When Brokeback Mountain came out and it got all the attention it did, I remember, a few months later, Heath called me and he was like, [affects Ledger impersonation] ‘Hey mate, I got some news for you’. I said, ‘What?’ He said, ‘Baz just offered me his next movie. I just wanted you to know, I f***ing turned it down!’ [Laughs heartily] So that was how much Heath loved me, you know. That was how I met him.”
And when it came to working together, Gyllenhaal said the experience was a “really deep and fun one.” He told Vanity Fair that, during that time, the relationship between them was “based on a profound love for a lot of people that we knew and were raised by in our lives,” adding that having “a deep respect for their love and their relationship” was something they had in common.
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