10 Things I Hate About You (1999) – Filming Locations
Released in 1999, 10 Things I Hate About You is a quintessential teen comedy that adapts Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew to a late-1990s American high school setting. While the film is set in the fictional Padua High School in Seattle, Washington, the actual production took place almost entirely in and around Portland, Oregon, as well as in Tacoma, Washington. This paper documents the primary physical locations used in the film, analyzing how each site contributes to the film’s thematic tension between social performance and authentic identity. 10 things i hate about you filmed
While Stadium High provided the exterior and the auditorium (used for the prom and the “10 Things” poem recitation), the majority of interior classroom and hallway scenes were filmed at John Marshall High School in Portland, Oregon. Marshall’s interior layout, with its long corridors and tiered classroom windows, offered production more practical lighting and sound control. This split location (exterior in Tacoma, interiors in Portland) is common in filmmaking to achieve both aesthetic and logistical goals. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) –