Too excellent to be true! The beloved 10 Things I Hate About You made its debut on March 31, 1999, and greater than twenty years later, enthusiasts are nonetheless talking about the romantic comedy.
Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger performed star-crossed enthusiasts Kat Stratford and Patrick Verona, respectively. The pair reluctantly fell in love with every different amid a backdrop of highschool angst. Meanwhile, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Cameron James), Gabrielle Union (Chastity), Allison Janney (Ms. Perky), David Krumholtz (Michael Eckman), Larisa Oleynik (Bianca Stratford), Andrew Keegan (Joey Donner) and Susan May Pratt (Mandella) made up the star-studded supporting cast.
“I have so many great memories from that film that are fading as a result of it's been two decades,” the Save the Last Dance actress told Us in February 2019. “But it was once just the sort of special time where we had been all so excited. It used to be exciting and we were all very young and nobody was once jaded so we have been all very open to the experience and to each other. It was once just a actually, really a laugh summer.”
Stiles persevered: “It was my first large activity and I in reality beloved that phase as a result of I hadn’t observed the nature of a teenage woman so feisty earlier than and that simply felt in reality refreshing and I was once in point of fact, actually glad to be a part of it.”
In the years because the film’s success, a lot of its actors have long past on to overcome Hollywood. However, Ledger died at age 28 from an unintentional drug overdose in January 2008. Before his dying, the actor stole the show in 2008’s The Dark Knight, 2005’s Brokeback Mountain and 2001’s A Knight’s Tale. He also gained a posthumous Oscar for his portrayal of the Joker.
“God, the first time I met him, he had carried out a movie in Australia and no one had truly heard of him — he was just this mysterious 19-year-old,” Union said of her late costar all through a November 2016 look on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. “He instructed me and everybody else who was once over 21 to satisfy him at the most sensible of the resort at this bar, and we stroll in, and he’s just got this wild hair. Again, he’s 19, however he’s were given a dad drink.”
The Being Mary Jane star added: “He was this sort of guy, such a gentleman, and his female friend at the time was once, like, 38. He used to be nice, warm, funny. We had a large number of fun. I thought all films have been like that. … The entire cast used to be like a dream. But he used to be a doll.”
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Stiles shared a similar sentiment with Us Weekly in October 2014. “He was so great. He was this kind of power,” she recalled. “He used to be, even at that age, a very, very robust, beautiful human being.”
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