The film also seeks to counter the lingering perception that Ledger was severely depressed when he accidentally overdosed on painkillers, anxiety and insomnia medication.
“He was super happy and he was loving life,” Ledger’s Hollywood agent, Steve Alexander, says in the film, which was launched at the Tribeca film festival this week.
Nine years after his death at the age of 28, audiences are seeing a different side of the Australian actor Heath Ledger – through the lens of his own camera.
Murray said Williams’s support was integral to the film, “but she really didn’t feel she wanted to be in front of the camera”.