"There was one time when Kobe, who I worked with for 18 years, was going back to play in Madison Square Garden, and he had just seen 'The Dark Knight,'" Pelinka said (starting around the 1:30 mark in the video below). "Obviously, you guys saw that movie. And he's like, 'Hey, hook me up with dinner with Heath Ledger, because he got so locked into that role. I want to know how he mentally went there.' And so he had dinner with Heath, and he talked about how he locks in for a role.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 28, 2019 20:15 UTC