Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams were snapped at “Bubby’s” restaurant in Tribeca last week. Ledger said he wanted some time off from filming to be a stay at home dad to eight month-old Matilda. It looks like he has been enjoying his role by not bothering to shave or bathe.

Ledger and Williams are scheduled to begin working on the weird “I’m Not There” Bob Dylan biopic this summer. The film will feature different actors and actresses playing the singer throughout his life. Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Julianne Moore and Richard Gere will join them in the film.

Reader Phyllis of HeathHeathens.com was not happy with our characterization of Ledger as a crybaby after his father revealed that he hightailed it out of Australia when the paparrazi squirted him with water on the red carpet. Ledger was composed at the time, but was said to have broken down and cried afterwards and asked his father to sell his Australian home. It turns out that Ledger was harassed by the paparrazi beyond what is allowable in the states, and that photographers delighted in tormenting him. People were camped out in his backyard and held a press conference on his front lawn. Phyllis says that Ledger probably never spat at the paparrazi as reported, and that he moved out of Australia after months of enduring constant monitoring. She says that “Heath is a very gentle and private person. He doesn’t have an ego.”

Heath always came off as aloof and cool to me, but maybe that’s a defense mechanism. I finally saw “Brokeback Mountain” and have to say that he’s a superb actor, and that it was one of the best films I’ve ever seen. Like Heath, I cried like a baby at the end.

Here are Heath and Michelle looking cute and cuddly at lunch. [via]