Krumholtz Missed Ledger Tribute While Filming in New York

David Krumholtz said he missed Julia Stiles’s tribute to their late 10 Things I Hate About You costar Heath Ledger because he was filming in upstate New York and could not attend the Dancing with the Stars taping in Los Angeles. Krumholtz explained his absence in an Instagram video posted after the show’s Dedication Night episode. He said he would have liked to join the reunion and praised Stiles’s performance, calling the tribute moving and saying he was proud of her. His explanation was that he was working out of state, not that he chose to skip the event. Stiles and her dance partner, Ezra Sosa, performed a contemporary routine honoring Ledger during the October 20 episode. The dance used Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” the song Ledger’s character sings to Stiles’s character in the 1999 film. The performance received 36 out of 40 points from the judges. Several of the film’s other cast members joined Stiles on the dance floor after the routine, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gabrielle Union, Larisa Oleynik, Susan May Pratt and Andrew Keegan. A still from the film appeared during the performance, which also incorporated Stiles’s recollections of working with...