Julia Stiles shares Harvey Weinstein forced her to do something when she was a teen that made her feel ‘slimy’

Julia Stiles has opened up about feeling ‘slimy,’ while working on a film convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein was producing. 

The actress, 43, said she felt extremely uncomfortable making a movie with the mogul when she was only 19-years-old. 

In a conversation with Brett Goldstein on the Films to be Buried With podcast, Stiles was asked about the worst movie she’d ever seen. 

She answered it was ‘one of my own movies, actually, that I think was executed very poorly.

‘It was a time when teen rom-coms were really popular, and the director [Kris Isacsson] wrote the script,’ she explained. 

‘He was a first-time director and he was a very, very intelligent, capable guy. The script was very good,’ she said, adding, ‘and then Harvey Weinstein got his hands on it.’

Julia Stiles, 43, has opened up about a ‘slimy’ experience she had working for former Miramax founder Harvey Weinstein,72;  Pictured in New York City in February 

The film was 2000’s Down To You, starring Stiles, Freddie Prinze Jr., Shawn Hatosy, Selma Blair and Henry Winkler.

It was during reshoots for some scenes that Stiles was told the then Miramax Films co-founder decided Stiles needed to use her dancing skills to add some spice to the storyline.

‘I’m told that [Harvey] decided that because of the success of Save the Last Dance and 10 Things I Hate About You, with me dancing on the pool table, that he needed to have me dance in the film,’ the Bourne Identity actress said. 

‘It was just dumb. “Let’s get her on a pool table and have her [dance].” It wasn’t even imaginative,’ Stiles stated.

‘I felt so slimy doing it the whole time, she said.

‘I don’t know if it made it into the film but ot was annoying. Because I was like, “Well, this is so cheap, and it’s not adding to the story.”‘

Besides acting, Stiles has used her skills to write and direct her first feature length film. 

Wish You Were Here, the sweet story of a young woman looking who falls in love with a terminally ill man. 

Stiles was starring in the rom-com Down to You with Freddie Prinze Jr.  which she said was ‘poorly executed’ on the Films to be Buried With podcast with Brett Goldstein 

Stiles said Weinstein, who was a producer on the rom-com, made the director include a scene during re-shoots in which she danced on a pool table. ”It was just dumb… It wasn’t even imaginative,’ Stiles stated;  Pictured in Beverly Hills in 1998

Weinstein, 72,  has been sitting behind bars as he awaits his re-trial on rape charges in New York City. The new trial was scheduled to take place April 15; Pictured in New York City in May 2024

Stiles’ most recent project was co-writing and directing her first feature length film. Wish You Were Here is the sweet story of a young woman looking who falls in love with a terminally ill man;  Pictured in New York City in January

The movie is available for sale or rental on Amazon Prime.  

Weinstein has been sitting behind bars as he awaits his re-trial on rape charges in New York City. 

The former entertainment executive’s conviction was overturned on a procedural error, and his new trial was scheduled for April 15. 

Weinstein has also been convicted of rape in California, and sentenced to 16 years in prison. His legal team has also appealed that conviction.