The Tom Waits 1979 interview Heath Ledger got his inspiration for the joker from

[tawasal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCSc6E4yG9sI don't know if this is true or not, but this is the first time I am seen it and the posture and the voice are spot on.

[redfirebird2008]

If I'm not mistaken, that was on Australian TV. Would not be surprised at all if Ledger saw it at some point as a kid. He was too young to watch it in 1979, but maybe it was aired later on and he got a chance to see it. The mannerisms and even the voice are eerily similar. I also thought there was some Cagney in Ledger's performance too.

[Fakhir]

Tom Waits starred in "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" with Heath Ledger.

[MagnetMan]

The voice and the cadence is eerily similar. It's like Ledger started off his sentences like Waits and then injected mild enthusiasm/mania by the end of his statement. "Let's wind the clocks back a year. These cops and lawyers wouldn't dare cross any of you..."Nice find, Tawasal.

[tawasal]

The voice and the cadence is eerily similar. It's like Ledger started off his sentences like Waits and then injected mild enthusiasm/mania by the end of his statement. "Let's wind the clocks back a year. These cops and lawyers wouldn't dare cross any of you..."Nice find, Tawasal.

Thanks and I love when actors find inspiration in others instead of been all too good for everyone and it does reflect in their perfomance too.

[tawasal]

If I'm not mistaken, that was on Australian TV. Would not be surprised at all if Ledger saw it at some point as a kid. He was too young to watch it in 1979, but maybe it was aired later on and he got a chance to see it. The mannerisms and even the voice are eerily similar. I also thought there was some Cagney in Ledger's performance too.

Yeah they both kinda confirm that by makin' jokes about it. And it is also in the title.

[tawasal]

But the guy was wasted on something there, what could it have been.