Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law take over for Heath Ledger give their pay to his daughter...

[SBrooks1]

Very cool of these 3 actors to do this....

Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law had taken over the roles of Heath Ledger after he died. Heath was filming the movie The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, where Heath’s character was in a traveling troupe and makes a deal with the devil. Terry Gilliam said that he can change into different people and that’s where Johnny, Colin and Jude came in. Without that flexibility Heath may not have been able to stay in the film.

When Johnny, Colin and Jude found out that Heath had left behind an old will with all of his money going to his dad, the guys thought they could help by donating their paychecks from the film to Heath’s daughter, Matilda, so she would be taken care of.

Director Terry Gilliam now in post-production on the film says of his leading men,“The three actors were totally heroic coming in. This doesn’t happen very often . . . where there’s a tragedy like this, and very famous, very successful actors suddenly say, ‘Okay, we’ll do whatever it takes to help.’ They came; they did the work; they allowed the movie to be finished; they didn’t take money–the money goes to Heath’s daughter. That’s extraordinary! And wonderful . . . and when you’re part of that, you think, ‘Ah, this is maybe why I went into the movies, in the beginning. I thought it would be full of wonderful people.’ And in our case, we’ve got a movie full of wonderful people, who did extraordinary things to help.”

I am so glad these guys are so humble. That’s why they make a great addition to the film. It will be bittersweet seeing this movie knowing he was filming it only days before he died. This picture still hurts to see because as we all know he did die a couple of days after this pictures was taken. My thoughts will always be with Heath

http://tengossip.com/2008/08/14/john...atilda-ledger/

[Charles3669]

This is so Old. Was announced like 2 weeks after his demise.

[Mr. Joshua]

A very humble gesture...

[Mr. Joshua]

I didn't realize this is old news....

[Blu-Malibu2009]

Wow, that's very nice of them to do that for her.

[theprophecy247]

good to see some people wiht busy schedules helping out

[vluan57]

Hmm. Indeed a very nice gesture. Why wouldn't the now grandfather give some of the money to the daughter though ?

[STARSCREAM]

Outstanding of them.

[wnicholas76]

Originally Posted by TTUBatfan2008

Wow, that's very nice of them to do that for her.

+1

Agreed! Their selfless act has made me respect them a hell of a lot more! Not as actors, but as real people. Depp, Law, and Farrell are all right in my book!

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by wnicholas76

+1

Agreed! Their selfless act has made me respect them a hell of a lot more! Not as actors, but as real people. Depp, Law, and Farrell are all right in my book!

I've always had respect for these three gentlemen as human beings in general. This just takes the cake though. However, admittedly, I believe that I may have done the same thing in their positions. Especially given the fact that I would already have a solid financial protfolio given their successes in the past.

[Blu-Malibu2009]

Originally Posted by vluan57

Hmm. Indeed a very nice gesture. Why wouldn't the now grandfather give some of the money to the daughter though ?

Actually he said that Matilda will be taken care of. And from what I've seen working with wills and probates on a daily basis, there's always a clause in the letters testamentary stating that no child has been born to the deceased since the time of the will. Well, in this case, it sounds like Heath's will is from before Matilda's birth. The way I view it is that his parents and Michelle Williams are Trustees for Matilda until she's old enough to live on her own.

[ngkf7]

This is old news but still really cool.

[Original-6ix]

wow thats a great story indeed, much respect for acts like this, i know farrell is genorous, nice to hear things like this.

[superjoe89]

oh wow. that's so nice of them to do that. yeah, so now, how come the gramps cant give his granddaughter some money.

[swifty7]

yeah!! what gives? gramps should be giving some of that money to his granddaughter, I don't get it. Is he planning to keep all the money for himself?

[Marquoz]

Well, doesn't that go a far way to destroy my jaded view of people. That's awesome that they did that (even if it is old news).

[Giyomu]

really good decision

[cathexist]

Originally Posted by Charles3669

This is so Old. Was announced like 2 weeks after his demise.

This gives us an update on it and gives us Terry's take on them as actors...

Thank you OP, I was wondering what was happening with this film.

[horseflesh]

They do seem like 3 genuinely decent blokes, and it makes me feel a little proud of my fellow Dubliner Farrell

[Grant Matrix]

I knew about the three actors, but I never knew they passed their payday along to Heath's daughter. That is really classy. Kudos to all 3!!