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Vanessa Carlton Reveals That She and Fellow '00s Icon Julia Stiles Met 30 Years Ago in ‘9th Grade Biology’ (Exclusive)

Vanessa Carlton — who scored Julia Stiles’ directorial debut movie, ‘Wish You Were Here’ — shares exclusively with PEOPLE that she had met Stiles three decades ago in a biology class when they were both teens in high school.

“I’ve known Julia since like ninth grade biology class, so we’re just living our life, man, just looking for the next exciting thing to do,” Carlton, 44, tells PEOPLE of her longtime friendship with Stiles, 43, that started when they were teens. Carlton revealed that despite their past connection, which also includes being photographed together at red carpet events over the years, she had to audition for the chance to score the movie, which hit theaters on Jan. 17. “We auditioned — we read the script last summer,” the three-time Grammy nominee says, referring to herself and husband John McCauley of rock band Deer Tick and Dennis Ryan Engineering.

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