{"id":22056,"date":"2021-05-06T09:41:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T23:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=192897"},"modified":"2021-07-21T14:27:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T14:27:38","slug":"10-things-i-hate-about-you-romance-julia-stiles-joseph-gordon-levitt","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/10-things-i-hate-about-you-romance-julia-stiles-joseph-gordon-levitt\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201c10 Things I Hate About You\u201d Director Reveals Secret on-Set Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles at swing in a scene from the film ’10 Things I Hate About You’, 1999. (Photo by Buena Vista\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I will never quite forget the on-screen chemistry between Julia Stiles<\/a> and Heath Ledger<\/a> in the 1999 rom-com,\u00a010 Things I Hate About You.\u00a0<\/em>But according to the director, Gil Junger, Stiles had eyes for another co-star IRL.<\/p>\n

Junger appeared as a special guest on\u00a0YouTube chat series Mir\u00e1 a Qui\u00e9n Encontr\u00e9<\/a> (Look Who I Found) <\/em>and revealed Stiles developed feelings for Joseph Gordon-Levitt which led to the couple dating briefly following production. The reporter also noted the pair hadn’t appeared in many scenes together.<\/p>\n

“She, for a minute or 10, went out with Joseph Gordon-Levitt,” Junger said in a nonchalant way. “They were very, very attracted to each other, which was cool.”<\/p>\n

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Heath Ledger, David Krumholtz, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt standing at table in a scene from the film ’10 Things I Hate About You’, 1999. (Photo by Archive Photos\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“I know, right? Isn’t that funny? She’s, like, professing her love to Heath, and she’s in love with the guy who’s waiting in his trailer to shoot the next scene,” Junger continued. “Yeah, but watching them, it was beautiful how much they enjoyed each other.”<\/p>\n

Of course a conversation with Junger couldn’t be finished without a discussion on\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>scene. For those unacquainted, Stiles’ character Kat reads a poem in English class professing her love for Ledger’s bad boy character, Patrick. Titled “10 Things,” the scene allegedly was filmed in just one take and ended with even the director tearful in the background.<\/p>\n