Cultural appropriation straight, cis-gender actors in trans acting roles, such as when Eddie Redmayne played the role of artist Lili Elbe in the film "The Danish Girl" and when Jared Leto played the role of a trans woman named Rayon in "Dallas Buyers Club". The gay community has expressed concerns about the use of straight actors to play gay characters; this occurs in films such as "Call Me by Your Name" (straight actors Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet), "Brokeback Mountain" (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal), "Philadelphia" (starring Tom Hanks), "Capote" (starring Philip Seymour Hoffman) and "Milk" (with Sean Penn playing the role
Heath Ledger death. While working on the film in London, Ledger told Sarah Lyall in their "New York Times" interview that he viewed "The Dark Knight"s Joker as a "psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy". For his work on "The Dark Knight", Ledger posthumously won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which his family accepted on his behalf, as well as numerous other posthumous awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, which Christopher Nolan accepted for him. At the time of his death on 22 January 2008, Ledger had completed about half of the work for