Of course, at the time, it made for good clickbait. But stripped of its sentimentality, their careers do bear a striking structural resemblance.
Ledger’s iconic rendition of Can’t Take My Eyes Off You in 1999’s teen romance 10 Things I Hate About You catapulted him to stardom and opened doors in Hollywood. Yes, there were some not-so-serious movies afterwards (the cult classic A Knight’s Tale, for example), but he progressively moved towards more complex roles that demonstrated his…

