Almost 24 years later, Julia Stiles introduced an iconic scene from considered one of her most beloved movies again to life. The actress, 42, took the stage on the Mash-Up People Guide Pageant in New York Metropolis earlier this week and carried out a pivotal scene from 10 Issues I Hate About You, the 1999 teen flick that was a contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
Posted to the Instagram of the competition’s venue, The Greene Area, the video exhibits Stiles — who portrayed disgruntled older sister Kat Stratford within the movie — reciting the love poem she wrote for Patrick Verona, famously portrayed by Heath Ledger. Ledger died in 2008 at age 28.
Wearing a floral silk blazer along with her blond hair tied again, the Hustlers star learn the phrases to the poem. Nevertheless it was the ultimate traces that proved to be essentially the most poignant, as Stiles grew to become noticeably emotional as she shared the attitude of the lovelorn teen.
“However principally, I hate the way in which I don’t hate you, not even shut, not even a bit of bit, not even in any respect,” Stiles learn, because the viewers replied with resounding cheers.
Again in 2021, Stiles recalled on the Folks within the ’90s podcast how “gracious” Ledger was to her in the course of the iconic scene.
“He wasn’t making an attempt to compete with me,” she stated on the time. “He stood again and he was like, that is your scene.”
Whereas some rising stars would doubtlessly really feel edged out, Ledger was the other.
“He was identical to, ‘That was lovely and that is your scene,'” Stiles recalled, noting how wonderful Ledger’s efficiency within the movie was. “He had his wonderful moments within the film, too — the singing and dancing and working up and down these steps. However he was assured sufficient, even simply beginning out, to be like, ‘I am handing over the stage to you.’ And I realized means later in life that that does not all the time occur.”
Lately, Stiles appears again fondly on her runaway success in 10 Issues I Hate About You, and the connections she made on the movie.
“I don’t take it without any consideration that individuals are speaking in regards to the film 20 years later,” Stiles advised the Every day Beast in 2019. “It’s an affirmation that even again then the issues, the tales, and the roles that I used to be drawn to, different individuals had been keen on as effectively. That was the primary time I actually learn a feminine character, particularly as a youngster, who was feisty and opinionated and unapologetic.”
