Julia Stiles is now not down for this 2000s rom-com.
The actress, 43, lately acquired candid working with Harvey Weinstein on “Down to You,” which additionally starred Freddie Prinze Jr., Shawn Hatosy, Selma Blair and Henry Winkler.
When Brett Goldstein requested Stiles to decide on one film to be at the moment’s worst decide on Thursday’s episode of his “Films to be Buried With” podcast, she responded, “One of my own movies actually, that I think was executed very poorly.”
Stiles defined why she went with “Down to You.”
“It was a time when teen romcoms were really popular, and the director wrote the script. He was a first-time director and he was a very, very intelligent, capable guy. The script was very good,” the star defined. “And then Harvey Weinstein got his hands on it.”
The movie adopted faculty college students in New York Metropolis, Al (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Imogen (Julia Stiles) who meet at a bar and endured a number of trials and tribulations earlier than they acquired their fortunately ever after.
In a single scene, Imogen placed on Al Inexperienced’s “Let’s Stay Together” in her dorm and did just a little dance across the room and throughout the pool desk.
Stiles claimed the scene was written as a result of “the success of ‘Save the Last Dance,’ or the success of ’10 Things I Hate About You,’ with me dancing on the pool table, he needed to have me dancing in the film.”
She referred to as Weinstein’s determination a “dumb” try to “capitalize on this trend.”
“I felt so slimy doing it the whole time,” confessed Stiles. “It was annoying. Because I was like, ‘Well, this is so cheap, and it’s not adding to the story.’”
Nonetheless, this wasn’t the primary time “The Makeover” alum mentioned Weinstein, 72, coming onto the undertaking after the author/director Kris Isacsson had already written the script.
“The movie changed a lot from the development process to the finished product,” she instructed Leisure Weekly in 2019. “Kris Isacsson had a vision for it that was a lot darker, so I remember thinking it was really mature. Then Harvey Weinstein and Miramax ended up producing it and turned it into a movie that was much more of a commercial, upbeat romantic comedy, for better or worse.”
Weinstein is presently behind bars serving a 16-year jail sentence after his 2022 California rape conviction.
The disgraced film mogul was additionally convicted in 2020 of first-degree prison sexual act and third-degree rape and sentenced to 23 years in jail. Weinstein will now have a retrial after his conviction was overturned on enchantment final April.
His New York Metropolis trial is ready for April 15.
