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Sharon Stone has identified the late producer who she claims suggested he sleep with her Sliver co-star Billy Baldwin to improve their on-screen chemistry.
The actress, now 66, first wrote about the incident in her 2021 memoir: The beauty of living twice.
He refrained from naming the alleged producer at the time; However, speaking on a recent episode of Luis Theroux Podcasthe named the producer as the late Robert Evans.
Evans, best known for his work on The rosemary baby and The GodfatherHe died of natural causes in 2019. He was 89 years old.
Remembering the moment, the Basic instinct The actor said he “should have been on set” but was told to meet Evans in his office to discuss his chemistry with Baldwin, now 61.
“(Evan) runs 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.”
Explaining Evan’s logic, he said, “If I could sleep with Billy, then we’d have chemistry on screen, and if I just had sex with him, that would save the movie.
Sharon Stone and Robert Evans
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“And the real problem in the movie was me because I was so uptight and I wasn’t like a real actress, who could just screw it up and get things back on track. And the real problem is that I was an idiot,” Stone added.
The independent has contacted Baldwin’s representative for comment.
In the 1993 mystery thriller, Stone played Carly, a successful book editor who, after moving into a luxury apartment building, discovers that several female tenants have been murdered. She then becomes romantically involved with the main suspect (Baldwin).
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Stone has been a leading voice in Hollywood’s #MeToo movement and details her experiences in her memoir.
Last November, she spoke about an encounter with an unnamed Sony executive who she said exposed himself to her during a meeting.
In an episode of Kelly Ripa Let’s talk off camera On the podcast, Stone claimed that when she met with the executive, he began complimenting her before “walking in front of me and saying, ‘But first…’ and he stuck his penis out in my face.”
She said the executive assistant eventually ushered her out of the room, before adding that this was “not the last of many strange experiences like this in my career.”
“I specifically didn’t mention names in my book, because it’s an exercise in futility, they know who they are,” Stone said. “They know who they are; I haven’t worked in 20 years.”