10 Things I Hate About You as the female leads in the original play. Their surname is Stratford, a nod to Shakespeare's birthplace. Patrick's surname Verona references the home of his relative character Petruchio. The characters attend Padua High School, named after where the play is set. Cameron (Lucentio, who disguises himself as a tutor named Cambio) tutors Bianca in French and slips in a line from play while obsessing over her: ""I burn, I pine, I perish"". Patrick's character reflects the outlandish behavior of Petruchio, and Michael coerces Patrick into the marching band incident with the words from Sonnet 56: ""Sweet love, renew thy force"".
Kyle Kaplan at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009, in which he plays the best friend of the title character, played by Keir Gilchrist. Kaplan appears as Michael in the ABC Family sitcom "10 Things I Hate About You", based loosely on the 1999 film of the same name, which premiered July 7, 2009. Since 2013, Kaplan has been a part of the music duo Phantoms alongside Vinnie Pergola. Their eponymous debut album was released in March 2017. Kyle Kaplan Kyle Joseph Kaplan (born 16 July 1989 or 16 July 1990) is an American actor. At the age of 13, Kaplan toured