Heath Ledger

Derik Murray, co-director of the new documentary I Am Heath Ledger, tells i-D what he learned from making the film.

To mark the release of the brand new trailer for I Am Heath, we cast our minds and hearts back to the five times Heath Ledger was a beautiful, beautiful hero.

I Am Heath Ledger features moving never-before-seen footage of the late actor, as well as interviews with Naomi Watts and Ang Lee.

In Marathon Man, Dustin Hoffman plays a character denied three nights sleep; when he stumbled onto set, exhausted and true to method form, co-star Laurence Olivier quipped: "Have you tried acting, dear boy?"

Once, the people we looked up to had to be stainless, perfect; contemporarily, we want our role models to have flaws. After all, what use is a role model if we can’t relate to them?