DAVID DASTMALCHIAN - Actor
Team Deakins
The Joker's Henchman on a Batman Movie?
"I was this really bizarre case where I was a high functioning opiate addict," he says. "My fear and my anxiety and my deep self-loathing led to me leaving acting altogether" The Joker's henchman in the new Batman movie is played by Heath Ledger, who has also appeared in films like "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Jurassic Park" He talks about working with director Chris Nolan on his first major film.
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