Dark Knight Star Shares Heartbreaking Memory of Losing Heath Ledger

Photo by Chris Weeks/WireImage/AFP vi Getty Images Gary Oldman has opened up about the time he heard the heartbreaking news of Heath Ledger's death. The Oscar-winning actor, who played James Gordon alongside Ledger's Joker in Christopher Nolan's 2008 film The Dark Knight, said the news left him caught off guard. Ledger died on January 22, 2008, when he was only 28. Gary Oldman recalls his friendship with Heath Ledger and learning of his death at 28 During a panel at the Toronto International Film Festival, the 68-year-old said he mostly remembered "being friends with him," reports . . .