Harvey Weinstein Compelled Julia Stiles To Shoot Dance Scene

Julia Stiles has revealed that disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein as soon as compelled her to shoot a gratuitous dance scene within the 2000 movie Down To You. The star defined that, on the time, Harvey needed to “capitalize” on the success of her dancing in different motion pictures, however stated that it was a “dumb” name as a result of it made no sense within the context of the movie.

For reference, Julia arguably acquired her large break when she landed the function of Kat Stratford within the 1999 film 10 Issues I Hate About You, which she starred in alongside the likes of Heath Ledger and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. On this cult traditional, there’s an notorious scene the place Kat will get drunk at a home social gathering and dances on a desk.

That very same yr, Julia shot one other film the place she acquired to indicate off her dancing prowess: Save The Final Dance, this wasn’t really launched till 2001, with Down To You popping out between these two iconic movies.

And the star opened up about her expertise with this shoot when Brett requested her what the worst movie she had ever seen was. Admitting that she didn’t wish to threat offending anyone, Julia started: “Gratuitousness is annoying to me.”

Remaining diplomatic, she then stated: “I’ll say one in all my very own motion pictures, really, that I believe was executed very poorly. It was a film referred to as Down To You with Freddie Prinze Jr., he’s beautiful, an exquisite actor, however it was a time when teen romcoms had been actually standard, and the director [Kris Isacsson] wrote the script. He was a first-time director and he was a really, very clever, succesful man. The script was superb. After which Harvey Weinstein acquired his palms on it.”

“And [Harvey] determined to capitalize on this development, and it simply turned dumb,” Julia went on. “So far as I bear in mind it — I haven’t seen it in a very long time — however I bear in mind once we had been filming it, we got here again, they usually had been pouring cash at it, like, in silly methods. So once we went and did reshoots, 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.”

Insisting that she has no challenge with dancing in motion pictures as long as it is smart, the star defined: “I’d make a complete film dancing, I really like to bounce, however it was, like, dumb. It was like: ‘OK, let’s get her on a pool desk,’ y’know? It wasn’t even imaginative, and I felt so slimy doing it, the entire time.”