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The Dark Knight Made The Joker So Real

No one will ever forget Heath Ledger as The Joker, and so much of that had to do with the way his character was imagined and dressed in The Dark Knight. Costume designer Lindy Hemming took the Joker’s personality and his possible backstory into account when she put this look together. “Whatever it is that’s wrong with him — made him be like this — means he doesn’t care about himself at all, really,” she told Empire. “He’s very sweaty and he probably doesn’t have a proper home. We were trying to make him sort of a… I don’t want to say, vagrant… But a back-story for him that he really doesn’t look after himself.”