'10 Things I Hate About You' Director Reveals How Heath Ledger Beat Out 253 Other Actors
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Gil Junger revealed in a new interview that he auditioned hundreds of other actors for the role of Patrick Verona.
Heath Ledger landed one of his most famous roles with effortless charm — within seconds.
“10 Things I Hate About You” director Gil Junger recalled in an interview Friday that he was desperate to find his leading man for the 1999 rom-com, and had already auditioned hundreds of young actors when a then-unknown Ledger entered the room.
What happened next, he told Entertainment Weekly, was pure “magic.”
“I’m very picky,” Junger told the outlet. “I had already read 253 guys — 253 guys! And then Marcia Ross, the head of Disney casting, said, ‘Look, this next kid, I don’t know him. It’s a favor for an agent I respect. So if he’s no good, just stop it and send him on his way.’”
Ledger had already established himself as an actor in his native Australia at the time with roles in various television series, but was still very much unknown in the U.S. Junger recalled Friday that the option to rush through his audition, however, vanished immediately.
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