Famously dubbed “the thinking teenager’s movie goddess”, the former teen actress Julia Stiles is now all grown up and fully in control of her career.
At 26, she refuses to compromise her integrity, even if it means losing out on roles to actresses more willing to flaunt their flesh. “It’s not that I’m prudish. It’s just that I don’t really want to go to work and take off my clothes,” says Stiles, explaining why she will never compete with Hollywood’s sexy young stars.
Co-starring with Matt Damon in The Bourne Ultimatum, the last of the Bourne trilogy, the actress commends the film’s intelligent style. Spy movies for grown-ups, the Bourne films have never required their actresses to run around in bikinis a la Bond.