Julia Stiles secretly welcomed baby No. 3 with husband Preston Cook.
“I’m more or less like a package deal of emotions, because I have a 5-month-old baby and I went into directing my first film,” Stiles, 43, shared in a profile for The New York Times, printed on Wednesday, April 3.
Stiles dropped the baby bombshell whilst reflecting on her iconic role as Kat Stratford in 10 Things I Hate About You, 25 years after the film premiered.
“I didn’t in point of fact talk about it,” Stiles stated of her third being pregnant, now not revealing the child’s intercourse. (She and Cook are already oldsters to sons Strummer, 6, and Arlo, 2.)
“I think that in truth being a mom is truly nice training for being a director,” the actress persevered, referring to her behind-the-camera function for Wish You Were Here, which doesn’t have a release date simply but. “You must suppose 10 steps ahead but also be within the present moment. You should be excellent at time management. You must be sensitive to other folks’s needs and guide them, but additionally cling a boundary.”
Stiles is not any stranger to keeping main points of her personal existence underneath wraps. She and Cook kicked off their low-key romance in 2014 after assembly on the set of her movie Blackway. By December 2015, the couple had gotten engaged.
“It was once a total marvel,” Stiles said of the proposal all through a July 2016 communicate display look. “Mostly as a result of I talked myself out of it.”
She recalled happening holiday with Cook’s circle of relatives for the holidays and hoping that he had an engagement at the mind.
“We went on a go back and forth to Colombia along with his complete circle of relatives over Christmas and New Year’s,” the actress shared. “So, as a result of I’m a lady, I was like, ‘Do now not break a wonderfully just right holiday by getting your hopes up. Just let it cross. Be within the present moment.’”
However, Cook was once unable to play it cool. “We had had a conversation looking ahead to an elevator at some point, the place he was randomly like, out of nowhere, ‘With jewellery, you don’t really wear silver or platinum. You’re extra into gold,’” Stiles said. “And then I went, ‘What is up with this conversation?’”
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The eventual proposal took place “on a tropical island.” As for the marriage, the couple shared their vows in September 2017.
Since they met on a film set, it’s no wonder that Stiles and Cook have persisted to paintings in combination over the years. He used to be a group member of her show Riviera, which aired from 2017 to 2020.
“We were so lucky since you continuously don’t get to [work in combination], and if you’re away from every other it may be exhausting for your courting,” Stiles said in a 2017 interview, admitting she “panicked” considering they might be separated for months. “But they hired him because he has a great resume and they needed any individual bilingual. It was probably the most romantic experience ever.”
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