Blackfriars Bridge

...castaways, scavenging amid the Thames debris. There's no sign of Ledger for half an hour, until the inescapably morbid sequence when he's found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge. Soon revived, he becomes a mysterious circus groupie...

In this article: Terry Gilliam, Heath Ledger, Tideland, Lily Cole, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Andrew Garfield

...one which, in the light of events, carries a tragic undertow. The players spot a man swinging from his neck beneath Blackfriars Bridge, and rescue him from an attempted suicide. The man, a shady chancer named Tony, is played by Heath Ledger...

In this article: Terry Gilliam, Heath Ledger, Tideland, Andrew Garfield, Lily Cole, Christopher Plummer, and Tom Waits

...2007. By mid-January, after Ledger had filmed an eerie scene in which his character hangs by his neck off Blackfriars Bridge, production broke for a week, as planned, with the intention to resume the shoot in Vancouver. Days later,...

In this article: Terry Gilliam, Heath Ledger, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Oscar, Cannes Film Festival, Jude Law, Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp, and The Dark Knight

...in Gilliam's office. One day, hearing Gilliam talking about his film's anti-hero, Tony, a mysterious amnesiac found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge, Ledger passed him a note which simply said: "I want to be Tony." Remarkably, the film...

In this article: Heath Ledger, Terry Gilliam, Batman Returns, Andrew Garfield, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, London, and Tom Waits

...with only vague memories about who he his. His amnesia is the result of a terrible beating, one that ended with him being hung by the neck from Blackfriars Bridge, which is where they find him. It's also how we're first introduced to...

In this article: Terry Gilliam, Heath Ledger, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, The Dark Knight, and Jude Law