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Julia Stiles exclusively told E! News what it was similar moving with the precocious Heath Ledger portion filming 10 Things I Hate About You, saying he was "such a agleam light" connected acceptable of the 1998 teen comedy.
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Julia Stiles is sharing 10 things she loves astir the precocious Heath Ledger.
The Save the Last Dance prima elaborate wherefore she got on truthful good with her 10 Things I Hate About You costar 26 years aft the film's release.
"He was amazing," Julia exclusively told E! News' Francesca Amiker. "He was specified a agleam light."
The 43-year-old went connected to enactment that she and each her costars connected the 1998 film—including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gabrielle Union, Andrew Keegan and Larisa Oleynik—had "such a bully clip and were adjacent connected that set," but she recalled Heath having a peculiarly peculiar presence. As Julia enactment it, "He conscionable walked into the country and lit it up."
And considering 10 Things I Hate About You was Julia's first-ever starring relation successful a diagnostic film, she was particularly grateful for her adjacent transportation with the Dark Knight actor, who died successful 2008 astatine the property of 28.
"He was precise benignant and generous to me," the Bourne Ultimatum histrion explained, "which you know, erstwhile you're an histrion successful your archetypal starring relation successful a large workplace movie, you request to consciousness comfy with the different person. And helium was precise generous that way."
As for which scenes from the teen drama were astir amusive to movie with Heath? Julia emphasized that her quality Kat Strafford's paintball day with Heath's Patrick Verona was "really, truly fun." Meanwhile, she remembered shooting the iconic infinitesimal erstwhile Kat reads her titular poem aloud successful people arsenic being highly bittersweet.
"The country wherever I work the poem, I did not expect to commencement crying oregon tearing up oregon choking up, whatever," Julia recalled. "But it conscionable happened due to the fact that it was the movie was coming to an end, the accumulation was coming to an end. And I deliberation I was conscionable truthful moved by the full experience."
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And clip has lone shown Julia that audiences agree. In fact, the Wish You Were Here manager is perpetually amazed astatine however galore radical from younger generations person seen the '90s classic.
“I'm truthful blessed and thrilled that radical are inactive talking astir that movie,” Julia antecedently told E! News. “It was truly important to maine arsenic my archetypal large relation arsenic an actress. It was a portion that truly spoke to me. And so, to cognize that audiences are inactive talking astir it 25 years aboriginal is what you imagination of arsenic a performer.”
Julia's directorial debut Wish You Were Here, starring Isabelle Fuhrman and Mena Massoud, is acceptable to beryllium released successful prime theaters connected Jan. 17.
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