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Billy Baldwin has responded indignantly to Sliver Co-star Sharon Stone claims that the film’s late producer, Robert Evans, suggested she sleep with Baldwin to “save the movie.”
Stone, now 66, had originally written about the incident in his 2021 memoir: The beauty of living twicebut he refrained from naming the producer.
However, speaking on a recent episode of He Luis Theroux Podcastidentified the producer as Evans, the former head of Paramount Pictures, who died in 2019 at age 89.
“(Evans is) running around his office in his sunglasses, explaining to me that he slept with Ava Gardner and that I should sleep with Billy Baldwin, because if I slept with Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin’s performance would improve,” Stone recalled. . “And we needed Billy to get better in the movie, because that was the problem.”
In explaining Evans’ logic, the Basic instinct The star said: “If I could sleep with Billy, then we would have chemistry on screen, and if I could just have sex with him, that would save the movie.”
Shortly after Stone’s comments made headlines, Baldwin, 61, Alec Baldwin’s younger brother, took to X to criticize his comments.
“Are you not sure why Sharon Stone is still talking about me after all these years? Is she still in love with me or is she still hurt after all these years because I rejected her advances? he tweeted.
“I have so much dirt on her it would make your head spin, but I’ve kept quiet,” Baldwin said, adding that he had implored Evans to “let me choreograph the final sex scene in the photo below so he doesn’t did.” I have to kiss Sharon.”
“I wonder if I should write a book and tell the many, many disturbing, perverted and unprofessional stories about Sharon?” he threatened. “That could be fun.”
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The independent Stone’s representative has been contacted for comment.
Stone starred alongside Baldwin in the 1993 mystery thriller. Sliver as Carly, a successful book editor who, after moving into a new luxury apartment, discovers that several tenants have been murdered. She then becomes romantically involved with the main suspect (Baldwin).
Billy Baldwin and Sharon Stone
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He Full withdrawal The actress has been a leading voice in Hollywood’s #MeToo movement and details her experiences in her memoir.
In an interview last November at the Let’s talk off camera with Kelly Ripa On the podcast, Stone explained that she “specifically didn’t name names in my book, because it’s an exercise in futility, they know who they are.”