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Michael Caine Recalls Being 'Terrified' of Heath Ledger's Joker Transformation in The Dark Knight: 'Chilling'

In Michael Caine's memoir 'Don't Look Back,' the actor recalls filming 'The Dark Knight' and witnessing late costar Heath Ledger transform into the Joker.

Michael Caine is opening up about his time filming The Dark Knight with Heath Ledger in his memoir Don't Look Back, You'll Trip Over: My Guide to Life. The Brokeback Mountain actor once described his Joker as a "psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy" to The New York Times, also noting in that interview that because of how demanding the role is, he didn't sleep well. We were all terribly shocked, and it made doing the publicity for The Dark Knight that summer much more intense, because all the journalists wanted to talk about his death."

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