Julia Stiles felt slimy for dance scene in Freddie Prinze Jr. ROM-COM
Julia Stiles revealed that she felt “slimy” about one memorable scene in her and Freddie Prinze JRromantic comedy To you.
‘Harvey Weinstein got his hands on [the movie] and decided to take advantage of [a] Trend and it just got stupid, ‘Stiles, 43 revealed, during Tuesday 11 March, episode of the “Movies to be buryed” Podcast.
Stiles and Prinze, 49, played in the blockbuster of 2000 as a young couple who fell in love while she went to the university in New York City. To you‘s production was notoriously controversial, because the now grabbing producer Weinstein took over the control of the writer director Kris Isacsson During post -production.
Weinstein would have ordered considerable division to make To you More such as Prinze’s Hit Comedy from 1999 That’s all of themincluded Insert a scene where the character of Stiles, imogen, dances on a pool table Al Green‘S “Let’s Stay Together” to the tense wall flower of Prinze Woo in Woo, all.
In her podcast interview, Stiles told the host Brett Goldstein That Weinstein began to “pour money” in the post production of To you in “stupid ways.”
“We went and did Herschoten, and I was told that he decided that because of … the success of 10 things I hate you dancing with me on the pool table, [so] He had to let me dance [Down to You]”She remembered. “I would make a whole movie dancing. I like dancing, but it was stupid. It was like: “Ok, let’s get her on a pool table” … it wasn’t even imaginative and I felt so slimy to do it all the time. “
Julia Stiles in ‘Down To You’
Miramax Movies/YouTubeStiles felt that the free dance sequence was “so cheap”, especially because it was not “added to the story in a meaningful way”.
‘It’s not creative [decision]It is not a creative reason. There is no creativity behind it, “she complained.
Weinstein’s interference did not help To you While the film was widely ponded by critics and under performance at the cash register at a time when Stiles and Prinze were both reliable money makers for Hollywood.
Podcaster Chris O’faltWho worked To youwrote in a 2017 Indiewire Feature that the original script of the film was a “an edgy, unorthodox look at a group of friends struggling with post-college life” before Weinstein turned the plot out of the plot.
‘[There were] A series of test screenings, re -movements and expensive at the last minute, to say nothing [Weinstein’s] Destroyed verbal attacks on a promising young filmmaker, “O’falt recalled. “Heaven and the earth were moved and souls were crushed because Weinstein knew how to respond, did not steer. As a financier of the film, it was the privilege of Weinstein against Frankenstein To you As he considered necessary. However, the result was a somewhat schizophrenic, over-budget film. “
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Slide dipasupil/getty imagesTo you delivered an early platform for various young stars, including Selma Blair Playing a college-out-out-oment-amateur porn star, Ashton Kutcher as a wannabe psychedelic rocker and Rosario Dawson As the best friend of Stiles on the screen.
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‘[Fame] Can be a bit scary, don’t get me wrong, but I try to concentrate on its positive aspects, “she acknowledged.
Stiles made her directing debut earlier this year with I wish you were hereIt was adapted from the author Renée Carlino‘s 2017 Bestseller Roman with the same name. The romantic drama is a love story between a terminally sick man (Mena Massoud) and a young woman (Isabelle Fuhrman) He meets a whim.
