Q: You said earlier that Heath was able to tune into something, some actors are very "method," after they said cut was Heath still the Joker for a while?

GO: No, you get a little, if you are that intense when you're playing a role like that, there's an energy on set and people get into it, I mean Jim Carrey is pacing up and down getting into an emotional scene and you can't fuck with him because he's off in the corner trying to sort of get into it or you take a moment and say, or Francis Ford Coppola says to you, "I want you to weep in this scene." Yeah, you're going to go off into a corner and think about terrible things, I don't know, you know what I mean? And you are focused on something but you know, what you get with Heath is he's so committed to the role and you look at De Niro's work and if anything you watch a movie like "Raging Bull" and whether you think it's good work or bad work, you've got to admire the commitment to it, the commitment to the work to gain sixty pounds to play Jake La Motta, that has to be applauded. And Heath is completely committed to this character and so free when he works it was just like a freedom. Often it shot differently, because Chris would say let's put it on steady cam or let's put it on a handheld and see what he does, just wind him up and let's see what he does and there's a real sense of danger there. I think that really comes across. But, we would cut and I would sit on the sidewalk with him and he would have a cigarette and laugh and joke and talk about Matilda. People want to believe the Joker contaminated him and you'd have to have a neurological disorder to, you know what I mean? I've played a lot of weird, wacky characters in my time and I've always managed to get to sleep. You know what I mean? But people want a darker story there I think, then there really is. Christian is still alive, you know? I mean, so it's just an accident sadly. But I think he's looking down from heaven saying, "They're going to nominate me for an Oscar? You're kidding me!! Bad timing!" But I think he will get nominated and the work will get recognized and this genre doesn't normally get recognized because people don't take it seriously enough, I mean, people don't understand that it's hard to costume a movie like Michael Clayton as it is to costume Dracula or Jane Eyre. It's just as hard. You have to get the right suit, the right shirt, should it be cotton? That tie doesn't work with that, is the cardigan right? Should she wear a short skirt? Should it be a 3/4 skirt? I mean, even though you are going out and buying the clothes there is the same skill that goes into it. But, of course the Academy never acknowledges, they would never give a best costume Oscar to Michael Clayton. And, so they've never taken the acting in these movies seriously, I think the last time they did was Tony Hopkins, they gave him an Oscar for a horror movie. So I think that they will acknowledge this and take it seriously on the strength of the performance not because it's a posthumous Oscar and it's a sympathy vote because he's dead. So, I'd like to see it, he's wonderful in it isn't he? He's wonderful.