{"id":2435989,"date":"2026-05-28T21:18:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2435989"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:18:54","slug":"julia-stiles-rhythm-in-10-things-i-hate-about-you-pool-table-scene-in-got-her-cast-in-save-the-last-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/julia-stiles-rhythm-in-10-things-i-hate-about-you-pool-table-scene-in-got-her-cast-in-save-the-last-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Stiles&#8217; &#8216;Rhythm&#8217; in \u201c10 Things I Hate About You \u201dPool Table Scene in Got Her Cast in \u201cSave the Last Dance\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"heading\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>Julia Stiles made a mark as Kat Stratford in the 1999 film <em>10 Things I Hate About You<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>The movie caught the attention of Thomas Carter, who would later audition Stiles for <em>Save the Last Dance<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>The 2001 film gave the actress, now 45, the opportunity to delve into dance in a way she hadn&#8217;t before<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Julia Stiles;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/julia-stiles\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Stiles<\/a> may have never been in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Save the Last Dance;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/save-the-last-dance-stars-julia-stiles-sean-patrick-thomas-reunite-20-years\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Save the Last Dance<\/em><\/a> if it weren&#8217;t for <em>10 Things I Hate About You.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The dance-intensive film required someone who could keep up with the physical demands. In a 2021 interview looking back at the film with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Today;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/popculture\/julia-stiles-looks-back-save-last-dance-20th-anniversary-t206138\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Today<\/em><\/a>, the actress, 45, explained how the 1999 film paved the way for her casting in the 2001 movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I met Thomas Carter, the director, and he told me that he had seen <em>10 Things I Hate About You<\/em> and the dance that Kat does on the pool table when she&#8217;s drunk to Biggie Smalls,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He saw that and he was like, &#8216;Oh, you have rhythm,&#8217; &#8221; she shared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So then I screen tested with Sean (Patrick Thomas). And then another actor who was up for the role. And then they hired me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE's free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"content-figure flex justify-center mb-[1em] mx-auto\">\n<div style=\"max-width:960px\">\n<div class=\"content-image\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"fig-caption\">\n<p><i>Julia Stiles in &#8220;10 Things I Hate About You&#8221;<br \/>Credit: Hulu<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The opportunity was an exciting one for Stiles, who had taken some dance classes as a teen but didn&#8217;t have formal training until she prepared for the film. Stiles admitted that she had to &#8220;bust my butt to get in shape,&#8221; especially so she &#8220;could be at the level that Sara was supposed to be at.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did ballet as a kid and a teenager. But I had stopped. So that was the most rigorous part of the training. So we did two months before we started filming. And then on the weekends, we would do the choreography rehearsals,&#8221; she recalled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fatima (Robinson), who was the hip-hop choreographer, when we would rehearse the audition scene, she was always, always refining the moves. So it was hard to keep up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The absolute best thing about making that movie was the dance,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I mean, the rehearsals, and the dance training. I was, like, &#8216;Sign me up; where do I start?&#8217; &#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was really challenging and really daunting because I&#8217;m not a professional dancer. So there was a lot of playing catch-up. But it was so fun. And such an awesome opportunity to get to do that kind of, like, rigorous training, and choreography rehearsals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/julia-stiles-save-the-last-dance-after-pool-table-scene-10-things-11985421\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Julia Stiles made a mark as Kat Stratford in the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You The movie caught the attention of Thomas Carter, who would later audition Stiles for Save the Last Dance The 2001 film gave the actress, now 45, the opportunity to delve into dance in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2435990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[477263,433744,388081,478131,478133,478132,478130],"class_list":["post-2435989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-10-things-i-hate-about-you","tag-biggie-smalls","tag-julia-stiles","tag-kat-stratford","tag-patrick-thomas","tag-save-the-last-dance","tag-thomas-carter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Julia-Stiles-Rhythm-in-10-Things-I-Hate-About-You.com2Fen2Faol_people_articles_4712Fed52e37083022a67557984c1009d3af0.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435991,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435989\/revisions\/2435991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}