Sharon Stone, 66, has finally revealed the identity of the producer who pressured her to have sex with a co-star for the first time – as well as the actor she was pushed to get intimate with in order to improve their on-screen chemistry.
Sharon Finally Let The Cat Out of Bag
The actress in 2021 earlier discussed the situation without disclosing identities, but has now divulged that the producer was Robert Evans, the actor was Alec Baldwin‘s brother Billy, and the film was Sliver in 1993.
Who Pressured Sharon to Have Sex With a Co-star
Evans, who died in 2019, was also a producer on Chinatown and The Cotton Club, and headed production at Paramount for The Godfather, The Italian Job, True Grit and The Great Gatsby.
Sliver was Sharon’s next movie after achieving huge success and megastardom in the previous year’s hit Basic Instinct.
As She Goes Down The Memory Lane
Speaking on Louis Theroux’s podcast, she said: ‘They expected me to bring home another giant smash hit and they gave me casting approval and they gave me all these approvals, but then when it came time for me to do it they told me it was a vanity deal and I couldn’t have my approvals.
Then they started to try to blame me for their mistakes, and they made terrible mistakes in the way that they hired directors and cast.’
She said former actor turned producer Evans summoned her from filming to his office to make the request for her to sleep with leading man William Baldwin – one of four acting brothers and more widely known as Billy – off set.
How She Was Pressured
She said: ‘He called me to his office. He had these very low seventies, eighties couches, so I’m essentially sitting on the floor, when I should have been on set.
‘And he’s running around his office in sunglasses explaining to me that he slept with Ava Gardner and I should sleep with Billy Baldwin, because if I slept with Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin’s performance would get better.
‘And we needed Billy to get better in the movie because that was the problem.Â
He Told Her Some Weird Demands
‘And if I could sleep with Billy then we’d have chemistry on screen, and if I would just have sex with him then that would save the movie, and the real problem with the movie was me because I was so uptight, and so not like a real actress who could just f**k him and get things back on track. The real problem was I was such a tight a**e.’
Sharon said on hearing his demand she just thought how he hadn’t listened to the list of actors that she had suggested for Baldwin’s part of Zeke Hawkins, and why the film’s bosses expected her to go from co-starring with Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct to Baldwin.
She added: ‘I didn’t have to f**k Michael Douglas. Michael could come to work and know how to hit those marks, and do that line, and rehearse and show up.
‘Now all of a sudden I’m in the “I have to f**k people” business.’
Sharon said Sliver still took a substantial $280million at the box office even if it fell below expectations.
