Julia Stiles Tells ‘The View’ Why She Had To Recreate Her Own Accidental Tears For Famous ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ Poem Scene

Julia Stiles may be promoting her new film Wish You Were Here, but the ’90s icon will never really shake her famous role in 10 Things I Hate About You. On today’s episode of The View, Stiles looked back on starring as Kat Stratford alongside Heath Ledger in the 1999 romcom.

After co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin praised Stiles’ “breakout role” in the film and said it “ages even better” every time she rewatches it, she asked Stiles about filming the poem scene in which Kat gets teary while reading her writing about Patrick (Ledger).

Stiles confirmed that she had to reshoot the scene after crying while filming, a reaction that was not included in the script.

“We re-recorded the dialogue. So I didn’t plan on crying, that was totally natural emotion that just came out because it was take two and we were at the end of this amazing experience that I loved so much, and I was just overwhelmed with emotions,” Stiles said.

She added, “It was beautiful, but then what I didn’t realize was — this was my first big studio movie — actors have to go in and clean up the sound in a recording studio afterwards if something got messed up. So there was a dolly track that was squeaky, and it squeaked over some of the lines so I had to go in and recreate the sound of me crying and getting choked up.”

Stiles, pro she is, told the panel, “It’s part of the job,” and Griffin couldn’t hide her inner fangirl as she gushed to their guest, “And you nailed it, because I still cry at that scene.”

While speaking with DECIDER about her new film, Stiles said she still feels grateful for 10 Things I Hate About You.

“It means so much to me. The other day, two women came up to me and were very sincerely talking about how much that movie meant to them…and that’s what you want as a performer,” she said. “And especially because that was one of my first gigs, and I was an auditioning teenager who was still trying to figure out who she is and facing lots of criticism and rejection, as any auditioning actor is, and I gravitated towards that character and that movie so much. So then decades later, for people to still like it and care about it is, like, a dream.” 

The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.

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