Jake Gyllenhaal has revealed his Brokeback Mountain co-star Heath Ledger refused to be a presenter at the 2007 Oscars over a joke involving their characters’ romantic relationship.
The critically acclaimed film told the story of two cowboys who had a homosexual relationship in the American West from 1963 to 1983.
It won three Oscars at the 78th Academy Awards in 2006, as well nominations for both Gyllenhaal and the late Ledger, who died in 2008.
Gyllenhaal has now revealed the pair were invited back to present at the Oscars the following year, but Ledger refused because he did not want to joke about Brokeback Mountain.
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