Being a star with a long career doesn't prevent you from going through difficult times.
Sharon Stone, now 66 years old, did not hesitate to confide in a particularly troubling moment.
In an episode of journalist Louis Theroux's podcast, the actress returned to the filming of the film
Sliver
, directed by Phillip Noyce and released in 1993, during which the producer Robert Evans
(deceased in 2019, Editor's note)
allegedly ordered her to sleep with his on-screen partner William Baldwin, “to save the film”.
Before sexually assaulting him in his office.
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“If I slept with William, we would have chemistry on screen and we would save the film,” also says the actress who had already mentioned this story in her memoirs, released in 2021, but without disclosing the identity of the people involved .
“Robert Evans called me to his office.
He had these really low sofas from the 1970s and 1980s, so I was literally sitting on the floor, when I should have been on set,” Sharon Stone remembers.
And he runs around his office in 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 would improve, and we needed Billy to improve in the movie because that was the problem."
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The star also recalls heavy criticism from the producer, who said she was "so uptight, and so not like a real actress, that she could just fuck him and get things back on track."
Robert Evans reportedly told her: “It’s true what they say… You are the most beautiful, your hair is incredible, etc.
We haven't seen anyone like you in decades.
Everyone is talking about you.”
And Sharon Stone continued: “Then he came right in front of me and he added “But first…” and he took his penis out a few centimeters from my face!
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"Alchemy"
The actress commented on this indecent proposition with irony: “The “real” problem with the film was me, because I was so tense, and therefore not like a “real” actress who could simply have sex with him and get things back on track.
The real problem was that I was such a rigid “asshole.”
Sharon Stone said she suggested other actors besides William Baldwin to star in the film, such as Michael Douglas.
However, the producer would have “not listened to the list of actors […] suggested for the role”, but would have indeed insisted on choosing William Baldwin.
And to tackle the one with whom she shared the poster: “I thought they could have simply hired a talented partner, someone capable of playing a scene and remembering his lines.”
William Baldwin responds
Shocking revelations which obviously reached the ears of Hailey Baldwin's uncle.
“I don’t know why Sharon Stone is still talking about me all these years later?
Does she still have a crush on me or is she still hurt after all these years because I avoided her advances?" asked the main interested party on a scene from the sulphurous feature film.
An unfiltered response that made the Web react.
“I don’t understand why you’re mad at Sharon Stone.
She's talking about the actions of the disgusting producer, she's not talking about you,” says one, “His ego is crying because we said out loud that he was a weak actor in the film,” adds another. .