Article: Fed: Gay cowboy role for Heath Ledger


AAP General News (Australia)
02-02-2004
Fed: Gay cowboy role for Heath Ledger

By Jonathon Moran, National Entertainment Writer

SYDNEY, Feb 2 AAP - Not quite following in the footsteps of Clint Eastwood and John
Wayne, Heath Ledger will play a gay cowboy in his next big film, Brokeback Mountain.

The Australian actor has been confirmed to star alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in the screen
adaption of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx's short story.

The film tells the tale of two sheepherding cowboys, Ennis Del Mar (Ledger) and Jack
Twist (Gyllenhaal) and is set in Wyoming in 1963.

The pair fall into a tempestuous love affair and forge a relationship that lasts for
the rest of their ...

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