Julia Stiles Felt ‘Slimy’ Filming Dance Scene Harvey Weinstein ‘Wanted’ In 2000 Romcom

Whereas showing on the Movies to Be Buried With podcast, the Right down to You star recalled feeling “slimy” filming the 2000 romcom as soon as Weinstein began giving producer enter.

When host Brett Goldstein requested Stiles what the worst film she’s seen is, she responded, “One in every of my very own motion pictures, really, that I feel was executed very poorly.”

“It was a time when teen rom-coms had been actually fashionable, and the director (Kris Isacsson) wrote the script. He was a first-time director and he was a really, very clever, succesful man. The script was superb,” the star defined. “After which Harvey Weinstein acquired his fingers on it.”

Throughout filming of Down To You — which additionally starred Freddie Prinze Jr., Shawn Hatosy, Selma Blair and Henry Winkler — Stiles recalled a dance scene she had to try this made her really feel uncomfortable.

“Once we did reshoots, I am advised that [Harvey] determined that due to the success of Save the Final Dance and 10 Issues I Hate About You, with me dancing on the pool desk, that he wanted to have me dance within the movie,” Stiles continued.

“It was simply dumb. ‘Let’s get her on a pool desk and have her [dance].’ It wasn’t even imaginative. I felt so slimy doing it the entire time. I do not know if it made it into the movie however It was annoying. As a result of I used to be like, ‘Properly, that is so low-cost, and it isn’t including to the story.’”

She known as Weinstein’s resolution a “dumb” try and “capitalize on this pattern.”

The movie follows faculty college students Al (Prinze Jr.) and Imogen (Stiles) as they navigate the highs and lows of past love, solely to face the challenges of rising up and drifting aside. By heartbreak — and, in true rom-com fashion — self-discovery, they have to determine if their love is robust sufficient to beat the realities of maturity.

Weinstein, the disgraced former movie producer, is scheduled for a retrial in New York on April 15, 2025, after his 2020 rape conviction was overturned on account of procedural errors.

Regardless of his declining well being, together with continual myeloid leukemia, Weinstein continues to serve a 16-year sentence for a separate rape conviction in California.