The truest thing I've heard since I saw news of Heath Ledger's death scroll across the CNN ticker last night: Australian actor Guy Pearce referred to him as the "friend I never got to meet." After all, that's what actors become to us. We build a catalog of movies, appearances, and interviews from which we pick and choose the pieces from their films that impact us. Things we relate to, things that lift us up or disgust and trouble us. In the end, we're left with an overall and ever-changing impression so that when we think of that actor, we know him as we might know a friend: intimatley and individually, according to our own preferences and perceptions. Heath seemed like one of the good ones, like he was an actor, not a star.
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