“I was chatting with Heath Ledger in a coffee shop/comic shop – it was kind of an underground corner. Really calm. I think it was 2006 because Brokeback Mountain had just come out and it was obviously a big hit. I got my coffee and book and found a seat and I saw a handsome guy in the corner. I sat in my booth but looked at him every few minutes – was it Heath Ledger? No, that couldn’t be. No, it was him – he definitely is. I finished my glass and looked at him again and he caught me and waved. I walked over and asked if it was him and he said yes. He was reading Swamp Thing by Alan Moore so I told him it was a good read – I also complimented his work on The Brothers Grimm. He thanked me and asked if I would like to sit down.
“So I sat with him and we chatted for an hour about comics, movies and life – I was 20 at the time and I was talking about a woman I was dating (she was one of my first friends). Heath seemed really interested in my problem and gave me some advice – he was a super nice guy, quite unpretentious and happy to just chill out without paparazzi following him.
The advice he gave me was, ‘Every day [you] should give her a gift – anything from a coffee to a new top.’ I later found out he was riffing on Twin Peaks!”
—u/domestic-cat-in-the-jungle
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