Speaking about her 2000 romantic comedy Right down to You, Stiles claims Weinstein “wanted” them so as to add a dance sequence after related movies had them: ‘It was simply dumb.’
After Julia Stiles referred to as out disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein for a dance sequence she says he “wanted” her to movie for her 2000 romantic comedy Right down to You, the incarcerated producer is firing again.
In an announcement launched from jail and obtained by The Day by day Beast, Weinstein stated, “Julia Stiles is a proficient and charismatic actress who naturally connects with audiences. Past her appearing expertise, she’s additionally a improbable dancer, which was one thing followers actually wished on the time.”
“I included that scene in Right down to You to reinforce the movie’s enchantment, and her chemistry with Freddie Prinze Jr. made it work seamlessly,” he defined. “As a filmmaker, I’ve all the time sought methods to raise a venture, and after I see a chance to make a movie higher, I take it.”
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He went on to argue, “That very same intuition led David O. Russell and me to forged Julia in Silver Linings Playbook, the place she as soon as once more delivered a standout efficiency.”
Stiles first made her feedback concerning the movie, which hoped to capitalize on its younger stars latest successes — 10 Issues I Hate About You for Stiles and She’s All That for Prinze.
“It was a time when teen rom-coms have been actually standard,” Stiles stated on the Movies to Be Buried With podcast. She stated that first-time director Kris Isacsson, who additionally wrote the movie, “was a really, very clever, succesful man. The script was excellent. After which Harvey Weinstein received his fingers on it.”
She stated that it was Weinstein’s determination so as to add the dance scene, with Stiles saying he did so “due to the success of Save the Final Dance and 10 Issues I Hate About You, with me dancing on the pool desk, [so] he wanted to have me dance within the movie.”
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Julia Stiles Felt ‘Slimy’ Filming Dance Scene Harvey Weinstein ‘Wanted’ In 2000 Romcom
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“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 is not including to the story.'”
She referred to as Weinstein’s determination a “dumb” try to “capitalize on this development.”
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. Via heartbreak — and, in true rom-com fashion — self-discovery, they have to resolve if their love is powerful 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 power myeloid leukemia, Weinstein continues to serve a 16-year sentence for a separate rape conviction in California.
