Post by David60 on Apr 4, 2024 3:30:05 GMT
Larisa Oleynik, who played Kat’s kid sister, Bianca, recalls rewatching “10 Things” recently. “The thing I love so much — and I’m going to get emotional — is, she’s so earnest,” Oleynik said. “She’s so genuine. And to me, that is the most beautiful thing about Julia’s portrayal of that character. It is coming from a deeply heartfelt, vulnerable, sensitive, insanely intelligent place,” she said, while adding: “I don’t think anyone else would have been able to be that real.”
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As Oleynik remembers it, Stiles was that girl, “a cool, downtown New Yorker” who, though only a few months Oleynik’s senior, “seemed so much more mature.” Before the “10 Things” table read, Oleynik had gone to Fred Segal to buy her real-life junior prom dress, an indigo slip that wasn’t all that dissimilar to the prom dress Kat wears in the movie. “I really, really wanted her approval,” Oleynik said. “I remember thinking, if Julia approves, I can go.”
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Like Kat, Stiles’s “10 Things” castmate Oleynik went to Sarah Lawrence University. This was years after the film’s release, when it wasn’t exactly a box office smash. “I thought no one had seen it,” she said, but on campus, she found some of the film’s most devoted fans. “It’s because of Kat! It’s because that character resonated so much. Kat’s probably why I went to Sarah Lawrence.”
