

High school still beckoned for Hartnett, who was the BMOC in The Virgin Suicides, and Dushku, whom we cheer to this day in Bring It On. Well, don't all of those names sound familiar. But her mom didn't like the script for her, so she passed." The other person I loved was Kate Hudson. She was about to get Dawson's Creek, and we had to make a decision really fast. "But Julia and Heath just had the best chemistry together," casting director Marcia Ross recalled to The New York Times in 2019 for an oral history about the film. "They were all terrific," producer Andrew Lazar recalled about all three potential male leads, noting that they saw "hundreds and hundreds of actors" before whittling it down to Stiles and Josh Hartnett and Ashton Kutcher were in the running for Patrick, and Hartnett screen-tested with Eliza Dushku, hot off her turn as Faith in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And that begot the rumor, since debunked, that Julie Stiles was interested in the role of Bianca.Īnd at one point it might not have been Stiles-or Ledger-at all in the pivotal roles of Kat and Patrick.
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It's impossible to picture this movie with anybody else in the lead roles, but ponder this for a minute: Larisa Oleynik, perhaps the biggest star of the bunch going in thanks to her Nickelodeon-fostered fame from The Secret World of Alex Mac, wanted to play Kat.

And then we really turned out attention to finding the perfect guy to play opposite her." "We saw hundreds and hundreds of actors," recalled producer Andrew Lazar, "but halfway through the process we did stumble upon an amazing girl, who we felt was perfect for the lead role, and that was Julia Stiles.

Tell him.' On the phone, I'm like, 'Yes, I hated Anthony in high school.'" And every now and then I'll get a random phone call in the middle of night: 'My nephew doesn't believe that this title is about me. Moreover, "Anthony is very proud of that fact," McCullah added. When Kirsten and I decided to write this, I went through all of my high school diaries to bone up on the angsty memories, and when I told her about that list, she was like, 'That's our title.'" I made a list called Things I Hate About Anthony. "The title is based on a diary entry I made in high school," she said in a sit-down with UCTV. "I had a boyfriend named Anthony that I was frequently unhappy with. The title of the winning 10 Things I Hate About You, meanwhile, was inspired by an actual list McCullah made about a high school boyfriend. Somehow, that one didn't end up getting made. McCullah and Smith, hearing that Disney's Touchstone Pictures wanted to make a teen romance, stat, raced to finish their rewrite to hopefully beat out the other script the studio had purchased-called School Slut. Added McCullah, "they didn't understand that sometimes as a teenage girl you're just angry at all the bulls-t you have to put up with." "We did get a note that said, 'Why is she so angry?'" Smith recalled. "They're changing the world even though they don't really know that they're doing it." "I think our legacy is just these fearless, funny female characters who are sort of radical by their confidence," Smith said.
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McCullah described their work to BuzzFeed News as "badass and full of mirth." It's easy to see where the empowered Kat got her modern-day spirit-and the entire movie got its fresh, witty and whip-smart vibe. They were long-distance writing partners and would send pages back and forth via express mailing service Airborne.
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"We chose Taming of the Shrew and figured out which story lines we wanted to keep and update and how we'd go about it and then outlined all the characters and the story while we sat on a beach in Mexico." "We knew we wanted to write a teen movie and when Clueless came out, we thought Amy Heckerling was a genius for contemporizing a classic, so we decided to try that as well," McCullah told The Script Lab in 2015. Image: instagram.The screenplay was the work of first-time movie scribes Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah Lutz, who went on to write Legally Blonde, Ella Enchanted, She's the Man, The Ugly Truth and The House Bunny. In June 2012, she got the lead role for forty episodes. In May 2010, the actress landed a major role in Dexter and appeared for ten episodes. On May 5, she appeared on Saturday Night Live as George W. She was a presenter at the 73rd Academy Awards.
