I grew up in New York City, especially a 17-year-old girl walking down the street is not going

to be smiling at people because that's dangerous.

The street smarts in me knew not to do that.

So you go into the commercial auditions and when they're saying like, you need to smile more

when you talk about how great tide is, it was hard for me.

I wanted to be like a serious actress, but you're young and everybody wants something else.

Ten things I hate about you.

That script was revelatory to me.

That part spoke to me so much.

I wanted it so badly.

I loved that Cat was outspoken and feisty and didn't really care what other people thought of her.

It was almost aspirational for me to be that kind of independent and confident.

Hi, I'm Miami Amiolic. I'm Jonathan Cohen. And welcome to our breakdown. This is the place

where we break things down, so you don't have to. Ma'am, you know what I haven't asked you lately?

What? How are you? How are you doing? I don't want you to

ask me that. That's why you haven't asked it. Why don't you want me to ask you that? It's actually a trick

question. Our society has taught us that most people don't want to hear the answer to that, but I truly

want to know how are you doing? Before I answer how I am, I want to say that we're going to be speaking to, quote, one of the most fearless and talented actresses in Hollywood, Julia Stiles. And we're going to get some really interesting perspective on how to approach many aspects of living, being okay, working, incorporating so many parts of you into a life. But before we get

to that, I'm going to answer your question. It's been a very active 2025. I think there's been a lot

more things that have happened than I anticipated what happened globally, domestically. It just feels like it's been, a lot of people

are saying, like, this has been the longest January, right? It's the long, I feel like it's been

a whole year and we're barely into 2025. Like, enough has happened. It's like it feels like that's

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