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As Stiles entered adulthood, she found that it became tougher to find roles well-suited for her.
This is the untold truth of Julia Stiles.
The strong chemistry between Stiles and her on-screen love interest, Heath Ledger, helped her land the part.
But Julia and Heath just had the best chemistry together."
Coincidentally, the well-read actressstarred inthree films based on Shakespeare plays over the course of a year.
She also acted in O, an adaptation of Othello, alongside Josh Hartnett and Mekhi Phifer.
Surprisingly, Stiles didn’t intend to star in the Shakespeare-inspired films.
The actress left the glitz and glamour of Hollywood life for academia, enrolling in Columbia University.
I tend to think about things too much."
But then also people in theentertainmentindustry don’t really care about university.
That helped me a lot."
The two-person play focuses on a college professor and his student who is failing his course.
Stiles previously played the same role in London in 2005, starring alongside Aaron Eckhart.
I was very much like the good student who doesn’t question why I’m there.
I think I politicized the play too much.
I was fighting against the play."
I felt like I could go deeper with it.
I also was curious what would happen playing opposite a different actor.
There’re so many amazing lines in the play.
It just stuck with me."
The actress starred in Season 5 of Showtime’s hit series"Dexter.
The role earned Stilesan Emmy nominationfor outstanding guest actress in a drama series in 2011.
Stiles compared watching her old film to looking back at old photos of herself as a teen.
“And then part of you is like, ‘Oh my God.'”
She’s sincewelcomeda second child, Arlo, in January 2022.
“Then I was like, ‘Oh my god, why did I do that?
I’m so sorry,” Stiles shared.
I totally embarrassed myself."
Coincidentally, the actress went on to work with Jordanin the Sundance crime drama “Riviera” in 2017.
The show became a hit for the online grid.
The character commits some immoral acts throughout the series, and Stiles has enjoyed playing the anti-hero.
However, Stiles did enjoy a brief dalliance with another “10 Things I Hate About You” co-star.
Junger was quick to confirm that it wasn’t Ledger who was on Stiles’ mind.
Junger explained, “They were very, very attracted to each other.”
In fact, Stiles is relishing the parts she’s getting in her 30s and 40s.
“We were all really present and it was just so uninhibited.
None of the actors felt jaded or shut down [on the set],” she gushed toNME.
Stiles credits the role with getting her more interesting parts down the line, too.
He stood back and he was like, this is your scene."
She continued, saying, “When they did his reaction shot, he didn’t well up.
He was just like, ‘That was beautiful and this is your scene.'”
Naturally, everybody was excited to be working on the movie so they had a great time.
She elaborated withGlamour, admitting to being screamed at and driven to tears on set.
So, that message to me was you have to take this kind of behavior."
It was easier to have a line between work and play."
Stiles continued, writing, “We need more romance in this world, more love, more connection.
Hope to make you all smile, make you laugh, and make you cry that good cry.”
In fact, she declared, “I gave it up.
“I changed diet because it really wasn’t healthy,” she explained.
“Being vegan is a hard thing to do …
When you are traveling there is no way you’re able to get proper nutrition.
So now I do eat some red meat but not all the time.”
She toldCosmopolitanthat juggling school and her Hollywood career was no mean feat.
“Yeah, it was a complete surprise to me,” Stiles toldCollider.
However, she admitted that she did approach the role with a significant amount of trepidation.
“Actually, I was terrified,” she toldCampus Circle.
Stiles did this to reinforce the psychological divide between Katherine and her demonic progeny.
For that reason, she was glad that the youngster wasn’t doing interviews for the movie.
“Because if he did it would be: ‘What was it like to work with Julia Stiles?’
[And he’d reply)]: ‘She was really mean to me!'”
she told theIrish Examiner.
She made the film, as she did several others, in the midst of studying at Columbia University.
“It occurred to me that I do that too.”
“So, it’s really the opposite.”
“[The show] explores the stigma associated with [being an escort],” Stiles said.
“She’s got to weave a tangled web of lies,” she later added.
It’s that precise element of the character, however, that Stiles found particularly intriguing.
“You get to see a full, well-rounded person,” she explained.
“She’s a mom, a daughter, a friend, an escort, and an accountant.”
“I had to show that I’m not only capable of doing drama.”
Stiles portrays Tricia, mother of the missing girl, who eventually turns the tables on Esther’s scheme.
“And that’s what drew me to it.
Esther’s kind of met her match in that way.”
“I wish I had worn stilts!”
“That would’ve been less humiliating than wearing these leather thigh-high boots with platforms that kept getting bigger.
We call them ‘the Gene Simmons boots.'”
“you might’t have a story about a sex worker without showing some sex,” she conceded.
