Heath Ledger in 2006

A resurfaced clip has fans mourning the late Heath Ledger all over again.

The Oscar-winning actor had no qualms about portraying a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, but did have gripes with the 2005 drama becoming a punchline for homophobic jokes at the time — and openly said so during a press conference in Berlin a year after its release.

With bigoted reactions to the film’s central relationship flooding the discourse, at a time when same-sex marriage had yet to be legalised in the U.S., Heth was asked at the Berlinale International Film Festival what he would tell people “who suggest that this is disgusting”.

“Oh,” the actor, then 26, groaned at the time. “Well, I don’t know. I think it’s a real shame.”

“Well, I think it’s immature, for one,” Heath continued. “Really immature. But I think it’s an incredible shame that people go out of their way to discuss or to voice their disgust, I should say. Or negative opinions about the way two people wish to love one another.”

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