In a press release launched from jail, Weinstein stated, “Julia Stiles is a proficient and charismatic actress who naturally connects with audiences. Past her performing abilities, she’s additionally a incredible dancer, which was one thing followers actually wished on the time.”

“I included that scene in All the way down to You to reinforce the movie’s enchantment, and her chemistry with Freddie Prinze Jr. made it work seamlessly,” he defined. “As a filmmaker, I’ve all the time sought methods to raise a undertaking, and after I see a possibility to make a movie higher, I take it.”

He went on to argue, “That very same intuition led David O. Russell and me to solid Julia in Silver Linings Playbook, the place she as soon as once more delivered a standout efficiency.”

Stiles first made her feedback concerning the movie, which hoped to capitalize on its younger stars current successes — 10 Issues I Hate About You for Stiles and She’s All That for Prinze.

“It was a time when teen rom-coms have been actually well-liked,” Stiles stated on the Movies to Be Buried With podcast. She stated that first-time director Kris Isacsson, who additionally wrote the movie, “was a really, very clever, succesful man. The script was superb. After which Harvey Weinstein bought his palms on it.”

She stated that it was Weinstein’s determination so as to add the dance scene, with Stiles saying he did so “due to the success of Save the Final Dance and 10 Issues I Hate About You, with me dancing on the pool desk, [so] he wanted to have me dance within the movie.”

“It was simply dumb. ‘Let’s get her on a pool desk and have her [dance].’ It wasn’t even imaginative. I felt so slimy doing it the entire time. I do not know if it made it into the movie however It was annoying. As a result of I used to be like, ‘Nicely, that is so low-cost, and it isn’t including to the story.’”

She known as Weinstein’s determination a “dumb” try and “capitalize on this development.”

The movie follows faculty college students Al (Prinze Jr.) and Imogen (Stiles) as they navigate the highs and lows of past love, solely to face the challenges of rising up and drifting aside. By heartbreak — and, in true rom-com model — self-discovery, they have to determine if their love is robust sufficient to beat the realities of maturity.

Weinstein, the disgraced former movie producer, is scheduled for a retrial in New York on April 15, 2025, after his 2020 rape conviction was overturned as a result of procedural errors.

Regardless of his declining well being, together with power myeloid leukemia, Weinstein continues to serve a 16-year sentence for a separate rape conviction in California.