#Julia stiles movies movie

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#Julia stiles movies movie

With an English lit degree and more than a dozen movie credits in hand, Stiles admitted to NME last year, 'I wasn't as clear about what I wanted to do. And she scored a gig hosting Saturday Night Live and a Rolling Stone cover, the mag declaring her 'the coolest coed.'Īnd, perhaps, few should commit to a firm life plan. Raking in more than $130 million, it also turned her into the it girl of the moment. She collected MTV Awards for Best Kiss and Best Female Performance and a Teen Choice trophy for Best Fight Scene thanks to her face-off with her new guy's ex ( Bianca Lawson) at STEPPS, the must-attend club that ain't no square dance. And it opened my eyes to a lot of perspective that I had never really considered before.'

You still get the entertainment, but there's something bigger going on. 'I thought this subject matter makes it edgier or different from your average dance movie. Once again, 'I was really kind of happy that we were able to sneak in bigger issues into what was otherwise a teen dance movie,' she told E! News, the characters' romance allowing for discussions about interracial relationships and white privilege. Two years after romancing Ledger (and getting her dad to agree to her East Coast liberal arts college dreams), she took a turn in Save the Last Dance, as a ballerina transplanted from the suburbs into a largely-Black Chicago high school where she falls hard for Sean Patrick Thomas' aspiring doctor Derek.