Sharon Stone says the producer pushed her to sleep with co-star

This is a famous, strange Hollywood anecdote Basic instinct star Sharon Stone did not know that the famous interrogation scene of the 1992 erotic thriller had a shot on her torso until she saw the finished film. “That was how I first saw my vagina shot, long after I was told, ‘We can see nothing – I just need to take off your panties, because the white reflects the light, so we know you have. a panty, ‘says the actress in a new excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, The beauty of living twice, published on March 30 in Vanity Fair. “Yes, there were many views on this topic, but since I am the one with the vagina in question, let me say: the other views are stupid.” The story is just one example of the glove that Stone describes as an actress working in the industry in the 1980s and ’90s. to promote “on-screen chemistry”. Can’t we just let the actors act, people ?!

“I had a producer taken to his office, where he had malted milk balls in a small container with a milk carton under his arm with the spout open,” the actress recalls. ‘He walked back and forth in his office with the balls falling out of the spout and rolling across the wooden floor, explaining to me why I had to fuck my costar so we could have chemistry on screen. Why did he make love on screen with Ava Gardner in his time and it was so sensational! Just the creepy thought of him in the same room with Ava Gardner kept me a little quiet. ‘

Stone said: ‘I saw the chocolate balls rolling around and thought: You insisted on this actor when he could not get one whole scene in the test … Do you now think that I will become a good actor if I fuck him? No one is so good in bed. I felt like they could just hire a costume with talent, someone who could deliver a scene and remember its rules. I also felt that they could fuck him themselves and leave me out there. It was my job to act, and I said it. This was not a popular reaction. I was considered difficult. ”

While Stone himself does not name names, the New York Post says they reached out to the actress and her Splinter cost William Baldwin for comment on the story. The Post points out that the producer of the 1993 thriller, the late Robert Evans, cost Ava Gardner in 1957 The sun also rises during his career as an actor.

“I just let other filmmakers come to my trailer and asked, ‘Are you going to fuck him, or not? You know it would be better if you did, ” Stone says, noting that others ‘threatened to fire me if I did not let it go’ The actress is nevertheless optimistic about the impact of #MeToo on the industry, and, young, it’s hard to imagine things getting any worse. worse than they were.

“Thank God it’s not like that now,” Stone said of Hollywood in 2021. “The whole system is changing. The financial burden is real, and the old boys club no longer covers for this. There are more women at the helm, and they are not in the pocket of the men, forced to play together or be canned. ‘