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Venice calling
Monday, September 12, 2005
Just after Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ledger's pregnant girlfriend, Michelle Williams, and Anne Hathaway traipsed on stage to do a Q & A for the gay love story Brokeback Mountain, a cellphone started to ring.
Everyone in the crowd looked accusingly at each other. Then producer James Schamus pulled a phone out of his pocket. Director Ang Lee was on the line, apologizing for his no-show at the press conference. Turns out his film had just won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Lee had walked off the stage, lion in hand, to pick up the phone to call his cast in Toronto.
The most entertaining thing about that Toronto press conference was the steady whispered dialogue between Ledger and his soon-to-deliver mate. At one point, he leaned behind Gyllenhaal to whisper sweetly, "How you doing?" To which the Dawson's Creek beauty (who plays Ledger's wife in this film) said, "I can feel it kicking."
This is one of the most endearing things I've read in a long time.
Heath is going to be such a loving and attentive husband and father. :blush: