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Sharon Stone mentioned on the most recent episode of “The Louis Theroux Podcast” that producer Robert Evans suggested her to have intercourse with co-star Billy Baldwin in an effort to save their movie, “Sliver.” The 1993 thriller from director Phillip Noyce starred Stone as a e-book editor who strikes into an unique New York Metropolis condominium constructing and discovers its residents harbor darkish secrets and techniques. Evans allegedly needed Stone and Baldwin to have higher “chemistry on display screen” as a result of it could “save the film.”
“He’s operating round his workplace in sun shades explaining to me that he slept with Ava Gardner and I ought to sleep with Billy Baldwin, as a result of if I slept with Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin’s efficiency would get higher,” Stone remembered about one assembly with Evans. “And we would have liked Billy to get higher within the film as a result of that was the issue. If I might sleep with Billy then we’d have chemistry on display screen, and if I’d simply have intercourse with him then that may save the film.”
“The true downside within the film was me, as a result of I used to be so uptight, and so not like an actual actress who might simply fuck him and get issues again on observe,” Stone continued about Evans’ alleged viewpoint. “The true downside was I used to be such a good ass.”
Selection has reached out to Billy Baldwin’s consultant for remark. The actor posted on X (previously Twitter) a response to Stone’s podcast look and wrote: “Unsure why Sharon Stone preserve speaking about me all these years later? Does she nonetheless have a crush on me or is she nonetheless damage in spite of everything these years as a result of I shunned her advances?…I’ve a lot filth on her it could make her head spin however I’ve saved quiet.”
Stone was coming off the blockbuster success of “Fundamental Intuition” on the time and remembered: “I didn’t must fuck Michael Douglas. Michael might come to work and know learn how to hit these marks, and do this line, and rehearse and present up. Now unexpectedly I’m within the ‘I’ve to fuck individuals’”‘ enterprise.”
Evans died in 2019 on the 89 years previous. “Sliver” was an honest field workplace success with $116 million on the worldwide field workplace. Evans made a reputation for himself through the New Hollywood period as the pinnacle of Paramount Footage from 1967 to 1974. He was a producer on such iconic movies as “Rosemary’s Child” (1968), “Love Story” (1970) and “The Godfather” (1972).
Stone first wrote in regards to the “Sliver” incident in her 2021 memoir, “The Great thing about Dwelling Twice,” though she didn’t title Evans on the time.
“Now you suppose if I fuck him, he’ll turn into a effective actor? No one’s that good in mattress,” Stone wrote within the e-book. “I felt they might have simply employed a costar with expertise, somebody who might ship a scene and keep in mind his traces. I additionally felt they might fuck him themselves and depart me out of it. It was my job to behave and I mentioned so. This was not a well-liked response. I used to be thought of tough.”
Final yr on Kelly Ripa’s “Let’s Discuss Off Digicam” podcast, Stone revealed she was sexually harassed by a former government at Sony who allegedly uncovered his penis to her when she went to his workplace for a normal assembly within the Eighties.
“I went to his workplace and it was, , again within the eighties, so the sofa was principally on the ground, ?” Stone informed Ripa. “It was these very low large couches and my knees have been round my neck and naturally, I’m so tall anyway, so I appear like all legs sitting there akimbo on the sofa, and he’s pacing across the workplace and he’s doing the very same factor.”
Stone mentioned the Sony boss informed her: “Oh, it’s true what they are saying about you and also you’re essentially the most beautiful. We haven’t seen anybody such as you in many years. Everyone’s speaking about you and take a look at you. You’re essentially the most articulate. You’re so good and delightful and that hair.”
“Then he got here strolling proper up in entrance of me and he mentioned, ‘However first … ‘ and he took his penis proper out in my face,” Stone added.. “In fact I used to be very younger and what I do after I’m nervous, as a result of I’m principally a really bubbly individual, I began laughing. I began laughing and crying on the identical time and I couldn’t cease as a result of I turned hysterical. I couldn’t cease, so he didn’t know what to do. So, in fact, he put it away and he went by means of this door behind his desk, which I assumed was that he left, so I didn’t know what to do. I used to be simply sitting there hysterical and ultimately his secretary got here and led me out, proper? This was not the final of many bizarre experiences like this in my profession.”
Stone mentioned on the “The Louis Theroux Podcast” that she’s usually needed to take care of abusive males in energy, together with “pig” Harvey Weinstein.
“He was actually comfy with throwing me throughout the room when he was indignant with me as a result of I wouldn’t do what he needed me to do,” Stone mentioned, including she was completely satisfied that Weinstein is now in jail as a convicted rapist.
Take heed to the total interview with Stone on the “The Louis Theroux Podcast” right here.
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— Billy Baldwin (@BillyBaldwin) March 12, 2024