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

Whereas displaying on the Films to Be Buried With podcast, the Proper all the way down to You star recalled feeling “slimy” filming the 2000 romcom as quickly as Weinstein started giving producer enter.

When host Brett Goldstein requested Stiles what the worst movie she’s seen is, she responded, “One in all my very personal movement footage, actually, that I really feel was executed very poorly.”

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

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

“As soon as we did reshoots, I’m suggested that [Harvey] decided that as a result of success of Save the Remaining Dance and 10 Points I Hate About You, with me dancing on the pool desk, that he needed to have me dance inside the film,” Stiles continued.

“It was merely dumb. ‘Let’s get her on a pool desk and have her [dance].’ It wasn’t even imaginative. I felt so slimy doing it your entire time. I have no idea if it made it into the film nonetheless It was annoying. Because of I was like, ‘Correctly, that’s so low-cost, and it isn’t together with to the story.’”

She often known as Weinstein’s decision a “dumb” try to “capitalize on this sample.”

The film follows college school college students Al (Prinze Jr.) and Imogen (Stiles) as they navigate the highs and lows of previous love, solely to face the challenges of rising up and drifting apart. By heartbreak — and, in true rom-com trend — self-discovery, they’ve to find out if their love is powerful ample to beat the realities of maturity.

Weinstein, the disgraced former film 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.

No matter his declining nicely being, along with continuous myeloid leukemia, Weinstein continues to serve a 16-year sentence for a separate rape conviction in California.