Now that the cat’s been out of the bag for a very good whereas, it appears everybody has there personal Harvey Weinstein story to share. Fortunately Julia Stiles‘ private anecdote relating to the convicted intercourse offender isn’t as dangerous as others, however nonetheless speaks to the previous producer’s dangerous style in all conditions.
Throughout a latest interview on Brett Goldstein‘s “Movies to Be Buried With” podcast, Stiles mentioned her early 2000s heyday, when she had her decide of any teen rom-com being put one the market, however fell into one venture that was “executed very poorly.” The movie was referred to as “All the way down to You” and co-starred one other sizzling actor of the second, Freddie Prinze Jr.
“It was a time when teen rom-coms had been actually widespread,” stated Stiles. “The director wrote the script. He was a first-time director and he was a really, very clever, succesful man. The script was excellent. After which Harvey Weinstein bought his fingers on it and determined to capitalize on this development. And it simply turned dumb.”
Slightly than attempt to develop and doing one thing new with the style, Weinstein as a substitute wished to rehash a component from Stiles’ previous successes regardless of it having no logical place within the movie.
“They’re pouring cash at it in silly methods,” she stated. “So once we went and did reshoots, and I’m instructed that he determined that due to the success of ‘Save The Final Dance’ or the success of ’10 Issues I Hate About You’ with me dancing on the pool desk, he wanted to have me dancing within the movie.”
The difficulty in Stiles’ thoughts was not that he wished her to bounce, however that it wasn’t essential to the story and it didn’t deliver something new to the characters’ dynamic.
“I’ll make a complete film dancing. I really like to bounce, nevertheless it was dumb. It was like, ‘Okay, let’s get her on a pool desk.’ It wasn’t even imaginative,” Stiles instructed Goldstein. “And I felt so slimy doing it the entire time. I don’t know if that truly made it within the movie, nevertheless it was annoying.”