Julia Stiles liked the “Down to You” script, however actually wasn’t keen on the completed product.
The actor appeared on the “Films to be Buried With” podcast on Wednesday and mentioned the 2000 rom-com “was executed very poorly.” Stiles didn’t maintain writer-director Kris Isacsson accountable, nevertheless, however blamed Harvey Weinstein’s artistic management for ruining it.
“It was a time when teen rom-coms were really popular, and the director wrote the script,” Stiles mentioned on the podcast. “He was a first-time director and he was a very, very intelligent, capable guy. The script was very good. And then Harvey Weinstein got his hands on it.”
Stiles recalled the then-powerful head of Miramax studios nabbing the movie’s distribution rights. She mentioned on the podcast 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.”
“Down to You” finally included a second during which Stiles’ character dances round a room — and throughout a pool desk — to Al Inexperienced’s “Let’s Stay Together.”
“I felt so slimy doing it the whole time,” Stiles admitted on the podcast. “It was annoying.”
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She recalled, “I was like, ‘Well, this is so cheap, and it’s not adding to the story.’”
The movie was ruthlessly panned by critics. One reviewer particularly blamed “all sorts of hokey moments.”
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Weinstein’s notorious penchant for micromanaging films as soon as earned him the nickname “Harvey Scissorhands” and left quite a lot of filmmakers sad.
Amongst them are Guillermo del Toro, who publicly disowned his first main studio movie “Mimic” (1997) after seeing the completed product, and James Grey, whose 2000 crime-drama “The Yards” was reportedly buried by Weinsten after the mogul demanded new ending.
