Heath Ledger Covers Vanity Fair August 2009

Heath Ledger on the cover of Vanity Fair August 2009.    The photo was shot by Bruce Weber in 2000, on the Prague set of A Knight’s Tale. “The day I stop having fun,” he told Kevin Sessums for the August 2000 cover story, “I’ll just walk away. There’s so much more I want to discover.”   Not sure why they decided to do a Heath Ledger cover after so much time but…

In the article, Biskind explores Ledger’s final movie role, his uncertainty about Hollywood, his devotion to his young daughter, and what happened in the days and weeks leading up to his death as he battled chronic insomnia, pneumonia, and exhaustion.   Read more here