Julia Stiles recently stumbled upon a memento from the “10 Things I Hate About You” set.
“When I moved out of my New York City apartment many years ago I put my stuff in my sister’s storage,” the actress, 43, told Page Six at the Gotham Awards Monday. “And recently she was like, ‘Oh I found this photo album’ and it was photos from ’10 Things I Hate About You.’”
“And that was bittersweet,” she added. “Wonderful memories but also sad.”
The 1999 teen rom-com featured Stiles and the late Heath Ledger in his breakout role.
The Australian actor died in 2008 at the age of 28 from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.
Siles said that the young cast, which included Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larissa Oleynik, Andrew Keegan and David Krumholtz were “so excited to be there” and “having so much fun” because they were all starting their careers “and not jaded or guarded.”
She went on to have a successful career, starring in “Save the Last Dance,” “Mona Lisa Smile” and the “Bourne” franchise.
The New York native recently branched out and achieved a long-held dream of directing the upcoming movie, “Wish You Were Here.”
“It was a big deal,” Stiles commented. “It was a career-long dream of mine to direct a movie and I finally got to do it. It was a five-year process.”
The “Dexter” alum admitted she was “definitely nervous” the first day on set “but then I kept saying to myself, ‘There’s no crying in baseball! You have to step up.’”
Other celebs at the event included Pamela Anderson, Colman Domingo, Demi Moore, Jesse Eisenberg, Angelina Jolie, Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya.
