Julia Stiles ‘felt so slimy’ dancing on pool table in Down to You after Harvey Weinstein forced it

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1. >When asked by Ted Lasso star Brett Goldstein what her vote for the worst of the worst would be on today’s episode of his Films to be Buried With podcast, Stiles volunteered “one of my own movies actually, that I think was executed very poorly.”

   >Stiles named the 2000 romcom Down to You, costarring Freddie Prinze Jr. “It was a time when teen romcoms were really popular, and the director wrote the script. He was a first-time director and he was a very, very intelligent, capable guy. The script was very good,” she explained. “And then Harvey Weinstein got his hands on it.”

   >Stiles claims that “because of the success of Save the Last Dance, or the success of 10 Things I Hate About You, with me dancing on the pool table, he needed to have me dancing in the film.” She characterized the insertion as a “dumb” attempt to “capitalize on this trend.”

   >”I felt so slimy doing it the whole time,” she admitted. “It was annoying. Because I was like, ‘Well, this is so cheap, and it’s not adding to the story.'”

2. All I remember from that movie is Freddie Prince Jr is so upset he’s blown it w/Julia Stiles he downs a bottle of shampoo.

3. I’ve never gone out of my way to read anything about her, but I always had the impression that she was whip smart and had tons of integrity and talent. I would have liked to see her in more roles with better material and directors. That goes for now if she isn’t retired.

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5. Read the article and watch the embedded video. She only thinks that the dance – regardless of whether it was on the floor or pool table – was cheap, as she had also danced in her previous two big movies, and Weinstein wanted to get her doing the same thing – as it had worked in those movies. She thought it was cheap, not due to some sexualisation, but because the original script didn’t have the dance, and Weinstein put it in.

   Yes, Weinstein is a predator and we all rightfully should hate him, but this is a shitty article headline and the article itself is just a nice easter egg for people that like the film and are interested in Julia.

6. Love Julia Stiles

7. “And then everybody clapped” directed Weinstein as he sat breathing heavily…. 😵‍💫

8. Oddly, that was the only scene in the movie I really wasn’t partial to

   I can do Ducky in Pretty in Pink and that’s about it

   But now I’m really turned off

9. Anything to make a buck

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