The Australian hometown of the late actor Heath Ledger named a theater in his honor Tuesday for his commitment to acting.Ledger’s father Kim attended a naming ceremony for the 575-seat theatre.
Kim said:
“I really feel that there’s not a lot of things he’d put his name to but he’d put his name to that”
Ledger, who starred in the 2005 movie “Brokeback Mountain” and received a best-actor Academy Award nomination for his role, died aged 28, of an accidental prescription drug overdose in New York in January.
Politician Alan Carpenter said:
“Heath Ledger was totally dedicated to the craft of being an actor and that’s what made him successful.”
Mr Ledger said family members would attend a screening in New York later this month for his son’s last completed film, the “Dark Knight“.
He added the grieving process has been made harder with the public attention surrounding the movie.
“It’s been a little bit hard, but we’ve always been extremely proud of his work and that hasn’t changed.”
