{"id":270123,"date":"2019-03-27T08:42:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1027182"},"modified":"2019-03-27T08:42:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:42:14","slug":"kate-hudson-was-almost-in-10-things-i-hate-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/kate-hudson-was-almost-in-10-things-i-hate-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Hudson Was Almost in 10 Things I Hate About You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.915142276423\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2017916\/rs_634x1024-171016183742-634-kate-hudson-golden-heart-awards.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Kate Hudson, Golden Heart Awards\" alt=\"Kate Hudson, Golden Heart Awards\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Clint Spaulding\/WWD\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"19.11510031679\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kate_hudson\">Kate Hudson<\/a><\/strong> could have been serenaded by&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/heath_ledger\">Heath Ledger<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marcia Ross<\/strong>, a casting director who worked on the 1999 cult teen film&nbsp;<em>10 Things I Hate About You<\/em>, has revealed that the actress was a contender for a leading role in the movie, as was&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/katie_holmes\">Katie Holmes<\/a><\/strong>. She also named other stars who auditioned for parts in the film, which ultimately starred Ledger and Julia Stiles as main characters Patrick Verona and Kat Stratford in the modern&nbsp;<em>Taming of the Shrew<\/em> adaptation.&nbsp;<em>10 Things I Hate About You<\/em> will celebrate its 20th anniversary this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We screen-tested <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/josh_hartnett\">Josh Hartnett<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/eliza_dushku\">Eliza Dushku<\/a><\/strong>, Heath and Julia,&#8221; Ross told the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/27\/arts\/10-things-i-hate-about-you-heath-ledger.html?login=email&amp;auth=login-email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Times<\/a><\/em> in comments posted on Wednesday. &#8220;But Julia and Heath just had the best chemistry together. I loved Katie Holmes. She was about to get <em>Dawson&#8217;s Creek<\/em>, and we had to make a decision really fast. The other person I loved was Kate Hudson. But her mom [<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/goldie_hawn\">Goldie Hawn<\/a><\/strong>] didn&#8217;t like the script for her, so she passed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>About a year after&nbsp;<em>10 Things I Hate About You<\/em> was released, Hudson starred in what would become her breakout role of groupie Penny Lane in&nbsp;<strong>Cameron Crowe<\/strong>&#8216;s&nbsp;<em>Almost Famous<\/em>, which earned her a Golden Globe win and an Oscar nomination.<\/p>\n<p>And Hudson would go on to star with Ledger in the 2002 adventure and romance film <em>The Four Feathers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-3-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019227\/rs_498x215-190327073522-500-10-things-i-hate-about-you-2-032719.gif?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Julia Stiles, 10 Things I Hate About You, GIF\" alt=\"Julia Stiles, 10 Things I Hate About You, GIF\" data-width=\"498\" data-height=\"215\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Touchstone Home Entertainment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"31.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>Holmes went on to play Joey Potter on&nbsp;<em>Dawson&#8217;s Creek<\/em>, which aired for six seasons.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1027182\/kate-hudson-was-almost-in-10-things-i-hate-about-you?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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She also named other stars who auditioned for parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-270123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 22:04:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}