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Jan. 22nd, 2008 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sam_gamgeePosting about what everyone else is posting about....
I was gobsmacked to hear that Heath Ledger had died. I heard it on the radio on the way up to my mom's and thought it was a joke or something. (Though, why they would joke about something like that, I don't know.) It's such a surprise, for me at least, since he was never in the news for things like drinking or drugs (and you know how the media loves reporting things like that and he was enough of a media darling that it would have been reported).
I was never a huge fan of his (not like I am with David Hewlett or Alan Tudyk), but I really liked his work and was definitely a fan. Which makes me wonder why the news hurts so much.
*sigh*
I was gobsmacked to hear that Heath Ledger had died. I heard it on the radio on the way up to my mom's and thought it was a joke or something. (Though, why they would joke about something like that, I don't know.) It's such a surprise, for me at least, since he was never in the news for things like drinking or drugs (and you know how the media loves reporting things like that and he was enough of a media darling that it would have been reported).
I was never a huge fan of his (not like I am with David Hewlett or Alan Tudyk), but I really liked his work and was definitely a fan. Which makes me wonder why the news hurts so much.
*sigh*
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Date: 2008-01-23 07:46 am (UTC)Because he was like us. He wasn't Brad Renfro, or Britney Spears, or Anna Nicole Smith. He was just a normal guy, one who always seemed very sweet and kind of quiet, never a "Hollywood type" (ok, onscreen-to-offscreen marriage notwithstanding), but in the news enough that we "knew" him more than just some guy off the street. So now, he's gone, and even though we didn't "know" him, we were familiar with him, and so it hurts, the same way it would hurt if we found out someone we didn't-really-know-but-recognized from, I don't know, school or the neighborhood or something died. It hurts because he was young, and he was "normal", and he wasn't a complete unknown. Therefore his death is not only shocking but personal: he could be us, or people we love. That's why it hurts so much.