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"The promotional side, the feeling like a product, the being used as a product, being a product-that sucks," he says between yawns and puffs on a Camel Light. It's about selling, and that is no fun at all. Making The Patriot with Mel Gibson "was fun." Making A Knight's Tale, in which Ledger plays a country boy jousting his way across 14th-century Europe accompanied by Geoff Chaucer and a 20th-century rock-and-roll soundtrack, "was the ultimate in fun." But this quick promotional tour through a handful of cities here and in Australia has absolutely nothing to do with acting. He loves pretending to be someone else in front of a camera-"it's fun," he says, again and again and again.
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Standing on the starting blocks of fame, he is uneasy, restless.
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Thirty minutes earlier, Ledger sits in the expansive lobby of a nearby hotel, explaining this is the part of moviemaking that feels like a job, pronouncing the last word as though it were a pejorative. This is how he keeps himself occupied, perhaps to forget about the task ahead-a handful of interviews today, then a plane trip to Chicago (or Atlanta-he isn't sure), where the whole promotional dance begins again. "That'd confuse 'em, wouldn't it?" he says with a conspiratorial smirk. Ledger then tries out a few accents-Texan, British, Scottish, his native Australian-and considers answering every question in a different one. He turns away and asks, quietly, "D'ya think it'd be all right if I said 'fuck' a lot?" One of his Los Angeles-based publicists, a short woman with black clothes and two packs of Kools in her purse, isn't amused. "Is this airing live?" he asks one of the handful of publicists escorting him from stop to stop, the women who make the chauffeured Suburbans run on time. The actor fidgets with whatever he can find lying about: He grips and spins around a camera, reads along with a TelePrompTer as the news anchors narrate in a nearby room, rolls around on a skateboard left in the studio. Waiting to assume the guise of pitchman and product. He most certainly would rather be anywhere but here: killing time in the WFAA-TV (Channel 8) studio, waiting to be interviewed during a live afternoon newscast. Heath Ledger, wearing the scowl of the anxious and uneasy, is having trouble standing still.