Sharon Stone 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 pressured to get intimate with to improve their on-screen chemistry.
The actress, 66, has previously discussed the situation in her 2021 memoirs – without revealing identities – but has now revealed that the producer was Robert Evans, the actor was Alec Baldwin‘s brother William and the film was Sliver in 1993.
Evans, who died in 2019, also produced Chinatown and The Cotton Club and headed up production at Paramount for The Godfather, The Italian Job, True Grit and The Great Gatsby.
Sliver was Sharon’s next film after achieving great success and mega stardom in the previous year’s hit Basic Instinct.
Talking further Louis Theroux’s podcastshe said: ‘They expected me to bring home another huge 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 , that it was a vain deal, and I could not have my approvals.
Sharon Stone has revealed for the first time the names involved when a producer told her to have sex with her co-star to enhance his performance in a film and add chemistry to their on-screen relationship
The actress, 66, previously described in her 2021 memoir the pressures put on her – without revealing identities, but has now revealed the film was Sliver with Billy Baldwin
She claimed the producer in question was Robert Evans, who died in 2019 (pictured in 2014)
‘Then they started trying to blame me for their mistakes and they made terrible mistakes in the way they hired directors and cast.’
She said former actor-turned-producer Evans summoned her from the set to his office to make the request that she sleep with leading man William Baldwin – one of four actor brothers – offstage.
She said: ‘He called me into his office. He had these very low sofas from the seventies, eighties, so I’m basically sitting on the floor when I should have been on stage.
And he’s running around his office in sunglasses explaining to me that he slept with Ava Gardner and I had to sleep with Billy Baldwin because if I slept with Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin’s performance would be better.
And we needed Billy to get better in the movie because that was the problem.
“And if I could sleep with Billy, then we’d have chemistry on screen, and if I just wanted to have sex with him, it would save the movie, and the real problem with the movie was me, because I was so turned on, and then not like a real actress who could just fuck him and get things back on track. The real problem was that I was such a tight a**e.’
Sharon said that when she heard his demand, she was just thinking about how he hadn’t listened to the list of actors she had suggested for Baldwin’s part of Zeke Hawkins, and why the film’s executives expected her to walk away from co-starring with Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct. to Baldwin.
She added: ‘I didn’t have to fuck Michael Douglas. ‘Michael could come to work and know how to hit those marks and make that line and practice and show up.
Sliver was Sharon’s next film after achieving great success and mega stardom in the previous year’s hit Basic Instinct
Sharon said: ‘(Evans) runs around his office in sunglasses explaining to me that he slept with Ava Gardner and I had to sleep with Billy Baldwin because if I slept with Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin’s performance would be better’
Sharon said Sliver still took a substantial $280 million at the box office, although it fell short of expectations
‘Now all of a sudden I’m in the ‘I have to fuck people’ business.’
Sharon said Sliver still took a substantial $280 million at the box office, although it fell short of expectations.
Elsewhere during the interview, Sharon sheds light on working with the cult classic Casino star, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Talking about her co-star, she talks about how the hunk helped her ‘lift weights’ and build muscle for the film ahead of their fight scene as on-screen husband and wife.
She also describes him as a ‘brilliant man’ as she delved into her time working with Schwarzenegger.
Heading into Sharon’s love life, the two discuss Sharon’s stint on the dating app Bumble after Louis points out that she was ‘kicked off for pretending to be herself’.
In addition, she also reveals that she ‘ended up having all different kinds of experiments.’
When she was on the app during the pandemic, she found herself ‘FaceTiming people and chatting for a long time over text’, describing the dates she was on as a ‘disaster’.