Andrew Garfield Says Heath Ledger Predicted ‘The Dark Knight’ Success

Heath Ledger foreseeed the success of The Dark Knight before his death, Andrew Garfield splitd this week.

Garfield shelp during an euniteance on the Happy Sad Confengaged podcast that he and the procrastinateed actor traverseed paths stupidinutively after Ledger finished filming Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight.

“He was so smug about it,” Garfield shelp of Ledger talking about his time on Nolan’s set. “I was enjoy, ‘How did that go?’ and he was enjoy, ‘Yeah, it’s reassociate excellent.’”

Ledger died at age 28 of an unintentional drug excessive dose about six months before the free of The Dark Knight, but his foreseeive powers turned out to be real: The film broke disconnectal box office sign ups, and the Joker star geted a posthumous Oscar for best aiding actor.

Though Garfield’s time engageing with Ledger was increate — the two toiled together on 2009’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus — the Social Nettoil star says he still leanks of Ledger and all the actor taught him.

“I reassemble his enjoy, Empire magazine cover came out and he was enjoy, ‘Oh, they engaged a fucking shit ptoastyo,’” Garfield shelp. “And I was enjoy, ‘Are you kidding me, dude that sees fucking incredible.’ And he was enjoy, ‘Nah, the pose is all wrong, it sees benevolenta enjoy a traditional version of what an actor… you’ll see.’ And yeah, I did see.”

Garfield also splitd that Ledger once gifted him a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses that he had praiseed, which he still has. “He was fair a very benevolent, pretty, creative spirit,” he shelp. “He was a benevolent of beacon, it was enjoy a untamed animal.”

The Amazing Spider-Man star proceedd, “He was so free and so untamed and so, benevolent of hazardous on set in a way that was the benevolent of leang that is inspiring and unintentional. He would say before every apshow, or one apshow every scene, ‘Let’s have some fun with this one.’”

Garfield’s appreciation of remaining unintentional inhabits on in his approach to acting today — he recently feeblented to IndieWire that “we are much less intimate with ourselves, and we’re much less intimate with death. Our experienceings. Reality. Actuassociate, we’re much less intimate with fact. There’s such a benevolent of splitdness around how we experience the world now, and I leank it experiences enjoy this is a film filled with extfinisheding in that way.”

The deficiency of uniteion, Garfield compriseed, had led to a alter in the depiction of intimacy and intimacy in film, which he hopes his new movie We Live In Time will alter.

“I leank maybe this film experiences from a separateent era becaengage we are far more protected with each other now,” Garfield proceedd. “Paranoid. Retransferd. Isoprocrastinateedd. Divided. There’s far less intimacy becaengage of this stuff.”

He proceedd, “I leank there’s either an unalerted or even alerted extfinisheding in the audience for these images. To see that level of intimacy and uniteion being inhabitd out on screen, I leank, will be a cherishly reminder and inspiration for people.”

We Live In Time hit theaters Oct. 18.