Julia Stiles is known as a former teen movie queen – and perhaps her most famous character is Kat Stratford from 10 things i hate about you.
The smart, strong-willed feminist from high school always spoke her mind and tried to avoid what others thought of her in the process. Styles, 43, believes he would do the same today.
When asked where he thought Kat would be now, Stiles answered Vogue“Hopefully, much happier after high school. She’s either on tour with a rock band or living in a cabin in Costa Rica, making her own sourdough bread and no screens around her. And she totally surfs.
Sounds right us!
In the 1999 coming-of-age film Stiles and the deceased Heath Ledger starred star-crossed lovers Kat and Patrick Verona, respectively. The pair reluctantly fall for each other amid high school angst. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Cameron James), Gabrielle Union (chastity), Allison Janney (Ms Perkey), David Krumholz (Michael Ekman), Larisa Oleynik (Bianca Stratford), Andrew Keegan (Joey Donner) and Susan May Pratt (Mandela) makes up the stellar supporting cast.
Favorite 10 Things I Hate About You debuted on March 31, 1999. and more than two decades later, fans are still talking about the romantic comedy. Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger played star-crossed lovers Kat Stratford and Patrick Verona, respectively. The couple reluctantly fell in love with each other against the backdrop of (…)
When you remember what it was like to work with Ledger – who died aged 28 on January 22, 2008 after an accidental drug overdose — Styles said the Oscar winner was “such a bright light.“
“He was such an energetic, kind force. He was very magnetic, very charismatic and we all had a great time working on this film,” she said Vogue. “I’m really grateful that you were so kind to me. For my first experience as a lead in a major studio film, and especially in romantic situations, you have to really feel comfortable with the person you’re acting against, and he made me feel very comfortable.”
People are still obsessed with their partnership and Gil Junger-directed film in general. Twenty-five years after its release, Stiles believes fans still hold the film in high regard because “the writing was so good.”
“It was a really smart team of women writers, Karen McCullagh and Kirsten Smithwho in many ways – like Kat Stratford – didn’t subdue their wit, humor and trend-watching,” Stiles said Vogue. “They were very pioneering and were like, ‘This is our personality and our sense of humor and this is going to be the movie,’ and that authenticity, I think, is what audiences responded to.”
After the success of 10 thingsStyles continued to participate To you, Save the last dance, O, The prince and meand Bourne’s identity franchise. Today, she is a busy mother of three children, whom she shares with her husband Preston J. Cookin addition to being an actress, writer and director.
She recently released her directorial debut, a rom-com I wish you were herewith the participation of Isabel Furman and Mena Masoodand based on the 2017 novel Rene Carlino.
Julia Stiles is praising her 10 Things I Hate About You co-star Heath Ledger years after his untimely death. “He was amazing,” Styles, 43, exclusively told E! News in an interview published on Tuesday, January 14. “He was such a bright light.” While Stiles gushed that she and all of her colleagues (…)
“I wanted to make a romantic movie that was really all about the human characters,” Stiles said Us Weekly for the project, which premiered on January 17, Friday.
She also admitted that being a mother is the best “training for a director”.
“You have to be good at time management, you have to multitask. You have to be present but also think 10 steps ahead. You have to be able to work really well on sleep deprivation,” she joked.
The actress added that with both directing and parenting, you have to “manage people’s emotions and needs, but also direct them,” concluding, “One hundred percent (it’s) the best training.”
