Andrew Keegan Wasn’t ‘Really Sure’ If ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ Would Be a Hit, Shares Set Memories
usmagazine.com10 Things I Hate About You is a bonafide cult classic film, but star Andrew Keegan initially couldn’t predict its success.“You can’t, obviously, know that,” the 44-year-old actor, who portrayed aspiring model Joey Donner in the 1999 flick, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, June 1. “It’s interesting because, of course, there are times where people put that on the project as it’s beginning.
I think you’re just in the moment and you’re not really sure, quite frankly.”The 7th Heaven alum added that the teen rom-com’s leads — Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles — were also relatively unknown actors before the film premiered. “The other thing too is, at the time, Heath had never done anything in the States.
And Julia had just done a movie that won at Sundance or at some film festival,” Keegan noted. “So it was Joey Gordon-Levitt and I that had anything.
And so there was a question [mark] too, like, ‘Yo … where are, like, the names [that] they’re gonna put [on top of the poster]?”10 Things I Hate About You, which was written by Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah, was inspired by William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
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