Kat Stratford

Yes.

All right, Mandy, what was Jennifer Love Hewitt's character's name in Can't Hardly Wait? Kat Stratford, Justine Last, Amanda Beckett, or Lee Holloway?

It was Amanda Beckett-

Yeah

She really was.

She's absolutely brilliant as Kat Stratford, the shrew of the title.

You have Heath Ledger in his breakout American role oozing effortless charisma.

He is so good in that movie.

The fashion in that movie is absolutely iconic.

It's so 90s.

The author specifically points out Kat Stratford's platform flip-flops.

I mean, those shoes alone deserve a retrospective Academy Award for costume design.

Hortensio is friends, rather than the new kid timidly approaching the school bad boy, with the analogue of Patrick Verona, Petruchio, who just wants to get hitched to a rich girl.

So what's in it for him is, and always was, the money, though he does later profess to enjoying Cat's company, even though they verbally fight.

This is the, like I said, prototype of the matched wits of Much Ado, but with an infinitely darker outcome.

Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, thy virtue spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, yet none so deeply as to thee belongs.

Respect the cock.

And tame the cunt.

At the end of the production, Cat, weakened and beaten down by this torment and riddled with Stockholm Syndrome, lectures the other wives about how they must be subservient to men.

Some people who like this play interpret this final speech as ironic and believe Kat still has her wits and fire.

Suicide and buttholes.

Number four is Cat Hates Pat.

Pat name drops a couple of indie girl bands and now Cat starts showing interest in Pat.

Just seems a little easy.

Too easy to turn things around

Did he fuck up that bad? Left things on the floor?

The third of my hates, and not the least despiteful.

Catherine is not asked.

She was the stereotype of the pretty ugly girl.

So basically, Lainey Boggs in She's All That, or Katarina Stratford from 10 Things I Hate About You, or Andy Walsh in Pretty in Pink.

So that's like, she's our Lee.

She's the, you know, the, our heroine of the movie where it's like, Oh, she's got, you know, overalls and glasses and her hair's in a ponytail.