Julia Stiles attends the special screening of Lionsgate's "Wish You Were Here".Julia Stiles has opened up about how her tears “ended up coming easily” when she filmed that emotional poetry recital scene in 10 Things I Hate About You. The actor and director reflected on the memorable sequence, in which she reads a love poem to the late Heath Ledger’s character Patrick, basically listing off all the things she “hates” about him.Speaking to Bustle, Julia – whose directorial debut Wish You Were Here is out now in the US – said when she first recounted the poem at the table read with the cast, she didn’t feel particularly emotional. “I do remember the director saying, ‘She’ll be more emotional next time,’ so maybe that sunk in,” she recalled.And in fact, they were right.“The tears ended up coming easily – we’d had such a fun time [making the movie], and it was coming to an end, and it just... the emotion kind of got to me,” added Stiles.
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