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Julia Stiles Felt ‘Slimy’ Doing Dancing Scene in Freddie Prinze Jr. Rom-Com

Julia Stiles recalled feeling 'slimy' while having to perform a dance routine in the 2000 Freddie Prinze Jr. romantic-comedy 'Down to You'

Weinstein’s meddling didn’t end up helping Down to You as the film was widely panned by critics and underperformed at the box office at a time when Stiles and Prinze were both reliable money-makers for Hollywood. Podcaster Chris O’Falt, who worked on Down to You, wrote in a 2017 IndieWire feature that the film’s original script was an “an edgy, unorthodox look at a group of friends struggling with post-college life” before Weinstein gutted the plot. “[There were] a series of test screenings, re-edits, and expensive last minute reshoots, to say nothing of [Weinstein’s] demeaning verbal assaults on a promising young filmmaker,” O’Falt recalled.

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