, the interview sees Batman actor Bale recount his memory of the “committed” performance from Ledger, which debuted 14 years ago this week.
Bale revealed that the actor wanted to be hit for real in one of the 2008 film’s key moments: the interrogation scene.100 Things Batman Fans Should Know & Do Before They DieBale remembered: “As you see in the movie, Batman starts beating the Joker and realises that this is not your ordinary foe. Because the more I beat him the more he enjoys it. The more I’m giving him satisfaction.
“Heath was behaving in a very similar fashion. He was kinda egging me on. I was saying, ‘You know what, I really don’t need to actually hit you. It’s going to look just as good if I don’t.’ And he’s going, ‘Go on. Go on. Go on.’ “He was slamming himself around, and there were tiled walls inside of that set which were cracked and dented from him hurling himself into them,” the Oscar-winning actor continued. “His commitment was total.”Ledger died ahead of the film’s release in 2008 and went on to win a posthumous Oscar for his performance a year later.