Julia Stiles is "grateful" for fame

She told UsWeekly: "Right now, I try to look at it as something that I'm grateful for because it allows me a lot of opportunities. One of the reasons I got to direct my first feature is because people know me as an actress from movies. It can be a little scary, don't get me wrong, but I try to focus on the positive aspects of it."

The Hollywood star has made her directorial debut with 'Wish You Were Here' - which will be released in early 2025 - and noted that while it was always a "dream" of hers to step behind the camera, a lot of it came naturally to her because she has spent so much time on film sets to begin with.

She said: "It has been a career-long dream of mine to direct a movie. It took me about five years from reading the book to finally being in production, and it was extraordinary.

"I loved every minute of it."

"When we were actually filming, I was able to be on set and think, 'Oh yeah, I know how to do this,' because I've been on a bazillion movie sets.

""[Wish You Were Here] is a love story, and even in the five years it took to get it made, it feels even more relevant now. We need a movie like this more than ever because it's so hopeful about connection and falling in love."