Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger
WireImage; Movie MagicJulia Stiles He sings her praises 10 things I hate about you com. costar Heath Ledger Years after his sudden death.
“It was amazing,” Styles, 43, said exclusively. and! news In an interview published on Tuesday, January 14. “He was like a bright light.”
While Styles said with great enthusiasm that she and the entire cast “had a good time and were close on that set” from the 1998 film, she recalled that there was something different about Ledger's interactions. “He just walked into the room and lit it up,” she said.
Styles, who had his first ever starring role in the beloved romantic comedy, said Ledger “was very kind and generous to me.”
“You know, when you're an actress in your first lead role in a major motion picture, you need to feel comfortable with the other person,” Stiles said. “And he was very generous that way.”
Styles and Ledger played high school love interests in the film, Who also shined Joseph Gordon Levitt (Cameron James), Gabrielle Union (chastity), Allison Janney (Mrs. Berkey) David Krumholtz (Michael Ekman), Larisa Oleinik (Bianca Stratford), Andrew Keegan (Joey Donner) and Susan May Pratt (Mandela).
Ledger died at the age of 28 in 2008 after accidentally taking a drug overdose. A toxicology report released at the time showed that Ledger died of “acute poisoning due to the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine.”
While recalling filming with Ledger, Styles said the paintball date between her character Kat Strafford and Heath's Patrick Verona was “really fun.” Stiles also noted that the scene in which Kat reads her poem aloud in class elicited an emotional reaction.
The beloved 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 lovers Kat Stratford and Patrick Verona, respectively. The duo fell in love with each other reluctantly amidst the backdrop of (…)
“The scene where I read the poem, I didn't expect to start crying or crying or choking up, whatever,” Stiles recalls. “But it happened because the movie was almost finished, production was almost finished. I think I was very moved by the whole experience.”
In the years following the release of 10 things I hate about youStiles revealed to Us Weekly In 2019 it is Memories from the movie They slip away.
“I have a lot of great memories from that movie that have faded because it's been 20 years,” Stiles said. “But it was a special time as we were all very excited.”
She added: “It was my first big job and I really loved the part because I had never seen a character of a teenage girl so feisty before and it felt really refreshing and I was really happy to be a part of it.” “.
