Photo SpecialHeath Ledger: Life in Photos
From being a dad to earning two Oscar nods, see how the actor rose through Hollywood
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DEFINING ROLE
"I would have been crazy to turn it down," Ledger (with his Brokeback costars Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal) told Entertainment Weekly of breaking barriers in the gay cowboy drama. "Any anxiety toward doing it was manufactured through the industry. It obviously wasn't as big a deal for us, because we did it."
