Too good to be true! The beloved 10 Issues I Hate About You made its debut on March 31, 1999, and greater than twenty years later, followers are nonetheless speaking concerning the romantic comedy.
Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger performed star-crossed lovers Kat Stratford and Patrick Verona, respectively. The pair reluctantly fell in love with one another amid a backdrop of highschool angst. In the meantime, 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 Could Pratt (Mandella) made up the star-studded supporting solid.
“I’ve so many nice reminiscences from that film which are fading as a result of it has been 20 years,” the Save the Final Dance actress advised Us in February 2019. “Nevertheless it was simply such a particular time the place we had been all so excited. It was thrilling and we had been all very younger and no one was jaded so we had been all very open to the expertise and to one another. It was only a actually, actually enjoyable summer time.”
Stiles continued: “It was my first huge job and I actually cherished that half as a result of I hadn’t seen the character of a teenage woman so feisty earlier than and that simply felt actually refreshing and I used to be actually, actually completely happy to be part of it.”
Within the years because the movie’s success, lots of its actors have gone on to beat Hollywood. Nonetheless, Ledger died at age 28 from an unintentional drug overdose in January 2008. Earlier than his loss of life, the actor stole the present in 2008’s The Darkish Knight, 2005’s Brokeback Mountain and 2001’s A Knight’s Story. He additionally obtained a posthumous Oscar for his portrayal of the Joker.
“God, the primary time I met him, he had executed a film in Australia and no one had actually heard of him — he was simply this mysterious 19-year-old,” Union stated of her late costar throughout a November 2016 look on Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen. “He advised me and everybody else who was over 21 to satisfy him on the prime of the lodge at this bar, and we stroll in, and he’s simply acquired this wild hair. Once more, he’s 19, however he’s acquired a dad drink.”
The Being Mary Jane star added: “He was such a person, such a gentleman, and his girlfriend on the time was, like, 38. He was nice, heat, humorous. We had numerous enjoyable. I assumed all films had been like that. … The entire solid was like a dream. However he was a doll.”
Stiles shared an analogous sentiment with Us Weekly in October 2014. “He was so good. He was such a power,” she recalled. “He was, even at that age, a really, very highly effective, beautiful human being.”
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