| His recent experience filming turn-of-the-century military drama, Four Feathers, in Morocco sounds anything but fun. Sandstorms and flash floods, on-set injuries and calamitous script wranglings beset the production, directed by the notoriously demanding Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth). But for Ledger, it was the beards. �Oh man, that was tough,� he affirms, shaking his head. �I was in Morocco for three months, and this sounds whingey, but I had three hours in the make-up chair every day so I was only getting three hours� sleep a night. And I had so many beards � long hair, short hair, and they were constantly changing. At the end of the London shoot we had to go back to Morocco to do pick-up shots. I sat in the chair on the last day and the look I had to have was the worst of the lot � long hair, long beard, blood, bruises, cracked lips, black eye. I felt the glue brush on my cheek and I actually wanted to vomit. Emotionally it was tough, too. Total commitment; you�re either all in or all out with Shekhar. Brian (Helgeland) was very different. He just put us in a room, supplied us with alcohol and watched us get drunk.� And you can�t get any more yin and yang than that. |