Even Gay Cowboys Get The Gym Blues
Illawarra Mercury
Tuesday March 23, 2004
HEATH Ledger says it's tough playing a gay cowboy.
Shooting love scenes in the film Brokeback Mountain with another Hollywood heart-throb, Jake Gyllenhaal, apparently will not be the hardest part.
Ledger has been ordered to the gym to bulk up for the role and has confessed he is not a gym junkie.
``Oddly enough it's the one job that I've been asked to build up on and kind of work out," Ledger told the Tonight Show's Jay Leno.
``You'd think you would kind of build up and work out to play a superhero ... but it ends up being for a gay cowboy story."
Ledger, who has just returned from a surfing trip, joked that catching waves, stretching or ``yoga in bed" were the only forms of exercise he enjoyed.
``It's been really tough to have to lift weights," he said.
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