Julia Stiles is no longer down for this 2000s rom-com.
The actress, 43, recently got candid working with Harvey Weinstein on “Down to You,” which also starred Freddie Prinze Jr., Shawn Hatosy, Selma Blair and Henry Winkler.
When Brett Goldstein asked Stiles to choose one movie to be today’s worst pick on Thursday’s episode of his “Films to be Buried With” podcast, she responded, “One of my own movies actually, that I think was executed very poorly.”
Stiles explained why she went with “Down to You.”
“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,” the star explained. “And then Harvey Weinstein got his hands on it.”
The film followed college students in New York City, Al (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Imogen (Julia Stiles) who meet at a bar and endured several trials and tribulations before they got their happily ever after.
In one scene, Imogen put on Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” in her dorm and did a little dance around the room and across the pool table.
Stiles claimed the scene was written due to “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 called Weinstein’s decision a “dumb” attempt to “capitalize on this trend.”
“I felt so slimy doing it the whole time,” confessed Stiles. “It was annoying. Because I was like, ‘Well, this is so cheap, and it’s not adding to the story.’”
However, this wasn’t the first time “The Makeover” alum discussed Weinstein, 72, coming onto the project after the writer/director Kris Isacsson had already written the script.
“The movie changed a lot from the development process to the finished product,” she told Entertainment Weekly in 2019. “Kris Isacsson had a vision for it that was a lot darker, so I remember thinking it was really mature. Then Harvey Weinstein and Miramax ended up producing it and turned it into a movie that was much more of a commercial, upbeat romantic comedy, for better or worse.”
Weinstein is currently behind bars serving a 16-year prison sentence after his 2022 California rape conviction.
The disgraced movie mogul was also convicted in 2020 of first-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree rape and sentenced to 23 years in prison. Weinstein will now have a retrial after his conviction was overturned on appeal last April.
His New York City trial is set for April 15.
