Julia Stiles Reunites With ’10 Things I Hate About You’ Cast, Cries During Heath Ledger Tribute on ‘Dancing With the Stars’

Julia Stiles paid tribute to the late Heath Ledger on Tuesday night’s episode of “Dancing With the Stars.”

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During Dedication Night, she performed a contemporary routine with her partner Ezra Sosa to “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”; in the 1999 film “10 Things I Hate About You,” Ledger’s character, Patrick, sang the Frankie Valli number to Stiles’ Kat Stratford from the bleachers while she was at soccer practice.

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The routine ended with the audio of Stiles reciting the poem she read to him in the movie, as her costars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, Andrew Keegan, Gabrielle Union and Susan May Pratt joined her on the ballroom floor.

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In the video package before her dance, she got choked up telling Sousa, “I learned a lot from Heath… It was so easy with him. I have so many great memories. I really wish I could pick up the phone, and be like, ‘Hey dude.'” She added that her response in that scene was real, and she hopes to “recreate the musk for life he had” in that scene.

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She scored four nines for the routine.

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Hours before the live show, Sousa shared a statement about the routine on Instagram.

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Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/

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