Whenever you assume again to cinema within the Nineties, there’s quite a bit that the last decade needed to provide. There have been some groundbreaking horror films, a plethora of motion classics, and, in fact, a ton of romantic comedies that centered on younger adults discovering themselves, and one another. Two of the large stars to return out of the last decade had been undoubtedly Julia Stiles and Freddie Prinze Jr., who had been paired collectively within the 12 months 2000 for the movie Right down to You, which Stiles now says was fully ruined by disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.
Showing on Brett Goldstein’s Movies to Be Buried With podcast, Stiles spoke about her time on the set of Right down to You, which was directed by Kris Isacsson and starred her and Prinze Jr. as younger lovers who meet in school and undergo the ups and downs of a relationship. She known as the script – which Isacsson additionally wrote – “excellent,” and whereas the movie was progressing properly, she talked about that issues took a flip for the more serious when Weinstein determined to get entangled.
“After we did reshoots, I am informed 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. 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, ‘Nicely, that is so low cost, and it isn’t including to the story.'”
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Sadly, the scene did make it into the movie, and featured Stiles’ character of Imogen dancing and mouthing the phrases to Al Inexperienced’s traditional R&B tune Let’s Keep Collectively. When seen in context together with her story above, there does appear to be an air of cringe about the entire thing, not simply within the delicate expressions on her face, however on Prinze Jr.’s as nicely, as from the seems of it, the 2 cannot anticipate the second to be over.
‘Right down to You’ Was Panned by Critics
Launched on Jan. 21, 2000, Right down to You managed to absorb $24 million on the field workplace towards a small finances of simply $11 million, however the romantic comedy was removed from a crucial success. It holds only a 3% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes, with Owen Gleiberman from Leisure Weekly saying “it is like watching the dreckiest of minor pet courtships attempting to go itself off as Annie Corridor.” Robert Dominguez from New York Every day Information echoed these sentiments, including:
“[It] depends an excessive amount of on gimmicky flashbacks and the quirkiness of the film’s supporting characters to compensate for the uninteresting leads.”
Certainly, Right down to You does boast a formidable listing of names within the supporting solid, together with Selma Blair, Ashton Kutcher, Rosario Dawson, and Henry Winkler. Sadly, even they weren’t sufficient to avoid wasting this one, however should you’re curious to see it for your self, it’s accessible to stream now on Paramount+. Try our interview with Stiles under, the place she discusses directing her first function movie, Want You Have been Right here, and remembers her 10 Issues I Hate About You co-star, the late Heath Ledger.
Supply: Movies to Be Buried With
Right down to You
- Launch Date
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January 21, 2000
- Runtime
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91 minutes
- Director
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Kris Isacsson
