Larisa Oleynik, who performed Kat’s child sister, Bianca, recollects rewatching “10 Issues” lately. “The factor I really like a lot — and I’m going to get emotional — is, she’s so earnest,” Oleynik stated. “She’s so real. And to me, that’s the most stunning factor about Julia’s portrayal of that character. It’s coming from a deeply heartfelt, susceptible, delicate, insanely clever place,” she stated, whereas including: “I don’t suppose anybody else would have been in a position to be that actual.”
Stiles began appearing as a 12-year-old in New York’s La MaMa Experimental Theatre Membership, however had a tough time discovering her place in movie. “I used to be a 17-year-old lady, auditioning for romantic comedies and commercials and TV reveals and at all times being instructed, ‘You’re too critical,’” she stated. “You realize, ‘Smile. You’re too angsty.’” That modified when she learn the “10 Issues” script. “It was the primary time that I had learn a personality in a teenage romantic comedy that spoke to me,” she stated.
As Oleynik remembers it, Stiles was that lady, “a cool, downtown New Yorker” who, although only some months Oleynik’s senior, “appeared a lot extra mature.” Earlier than the “10 Issues” desk learn, Oleynik had gone to Fred Segal to purchase her real-life junior promenade costume, an indigo slip that wasn’t all that dissimilar to the promenade costume Kat wears within the film. “I actually, actually needed her approval,” Oleynik stated. “I bear in mind pondering, if Julia approves, I can go.”
IN 2002, ACCORDING TO THE self-appointed cultural anthropologists at Newsweek journal, there have been precisely three forms of teenage women in America. You can be an Alpha: a blonde who beloved cheerleading, worshiped Gwyneth and Vogue, and managed to be “each bitchy and good.” You can be a Beta, which was principally an aspiring Alpha; Betas reportedly took slimming capsules as after-school snacks, spent after-prom at a motel, and have been, tragically, brunette. Or you can be part of a rising cohort of Gamma Women: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”-watching, flare-jeans-wearing freethinkers who have been “obsessive about Shakespeare,” dated the “class smartass,” and subscribed to Jane journal. The poster little one for the Gamma Lady: Julia Stiles.
