She played the rebellious Kat opposite Heath Ledger. Today she is 42 years old and still looks like a teenager

For her role in Shrew in Love, she won two significant Teen Choice awards – for Breakthrough Performance and Sexiest Love Scene. Literalness in the production inspired by Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” is in vain, however. The main characters preferred concerts of all-female rock bands and paintball rivalries instead of bed scenes, and seemingly they weren’t looking for love at all. Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles created one of the best-remembered duets of the late 90s. Everyone remembers the tragic end of the actor’s career, but what happened to the film Kat?

Magnetic personality over experience

Julia Stiles owes the beginning of her career solely to her own determination. As an 11-year-old, she wrote a letter to the director of New York’s La Mama Theater and soon began appearing in his avant-garde plays. She herself majored in English Literature at Columbia University. The theater accompanied her even when she was already acting in cinema productions. She appeared in remakes of Shakespeare plays, Hamlet (she was Ophelia, with Ethan Hawke in the title role) and O-Othello (played Desdemona). However, she owes her popularity primarily to “The Shrew in Love” based on the motifs of one of Shakespeare’s plays, directed by Gil Junger, in which Heath Ledger himself sang “Can’t Take My Eyes off You” for her. Although she outnumbers her nowadays, with award-winning roles in “Brokeback Mountain” and “The Dark Knight”, at the time of filming, she had more acting experience, although she was younger. Ledger was 20 at the time, she was 18. But he dominated.

He was a very magnetic personality on set. He had the joy of life […]. He was always totally involved with everyone. He’s a really interesting, extraordinary person and actor.

– that’s how Stiles mentioned him in an interview with “Elle” magazine. But she got along with the entire cast.

This summer was very, very special because we were all actors. We were very open, we didn’t feel constrained. It was a really special time.

– she said.

That’s how her career went

After the premiere of “Shrew in Love”, Julia Stiles had no problem getting more acting proposals. Thanks to the party scene in which a drunken Kat dances on the table, Thomas Colbert Carter became interested in her, who cast her in his film “In the rhythm of hip-hop”. She also starred in The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Crusade and The Bourne Ultimatum as Nicolette. She also appeared in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. Today, her face is nowhere to be found on the covers of newspapers. She is also often confused with other movie stars. However, he does not complain about this state of affairs.

My career is evolving, changing, but I think for the better. I’m getting more mature as a person and as an actress, or at least I like to think so. I think when you get older you get much more interesting roles.

she said seven years ago. Since then, she has played in the next film about Bourne – “Jason Bourne” directed by Paul Greengrass or the thriller “Orphan. Birth of Evil” by William Brent Bell. He is also active on social media. Although today she is 42 years old, her girlish beauty is still visible in the published photos.