Twenty-seven years after 10 Things I Hate About You hit theaters, the film still has a grip on pop culture that most late-’90s rom-coms can only dream of. Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Larisa Oleynik, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and David Krumholtz were lightning in a bottle — but the story behind the camera? That’s where things get wild.
That gut-punch of a scene where Kat (Stiles) reads her poem to Patrick (Ledger)? Stiles told Bustle in January 2025 that she and the crew filmed it in only two takes. Her tears weren’t scripted. She didn’t expect “to get choked up and cry” during the scene.
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