Sharon StoneΒ has finally revealed theΒ identity of the producer who pressured her to have π eπ₯ 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.
The actress, 66, previously discussed the situation in herΒ 2021 memoir – without disclosing identities – but has now divulged thatΒ the producer was Robert Evans, the actor wasΒ Alec Baldwin‘s brother Billy, and the film was Sliver in 1993.
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.
Speaking onΒ 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.
Sharon Stone has finally revealed the identity of the producer who pressured her to have π eπ₯ 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
The actress, 66, previously discussed the situation in her 2021 memoir – without disclosing identities – but has now revealed the film was SliverΒ (pictured) with Billy Baldwin
She said former actor turned producer Robert Evans summoned her from filming to his office to make the request for her to sleep with leading man William Baldwin off set (the duo pictured in Sliver)
Evans (pictured in 2018), 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
‘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.
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.
‘And if I could sleep with Billy then we’d have chemistry on screen, and if I would just have π eπ₯ 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 was frustrated that 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 she was frustrated that the film’s bosses expected her to go from co-starring with Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct to Billy Baldwin (pictured in 2023)
Sliver (pictured) was Sharon’s next movie after achieving huge success and megastardom in the previous year’s hit Basic Instinct
Sharon said all she could think about was how Billy, whom they had insisted on hiring, ‘couldn’t get one whole scene out in the test’ (pictured together in Sliver)
Sharon said Sliver still took a substantial $280million at the box office even if it fell below expectations.
The original excerpt about the incident from her memoir, which is titledΒ The Beauty of Living Twice, read: ‘I had a producer bring me to his office, where he had malted milk balls in a little milk-carton-type container under his arm with the spout open.
‘He walked back and forth in his office with the balls falling out of the spout and rolling all over the wood floor as he explained to me why I should f*** my costar so that we could have onscreen chemistry,’ she recalled.
‘Why, in his day, he made love to Ava Gardner onscreen and it was so sensational!
The original excerpt about the incident was in her memoir titled The Beauty of Living Twice
‘Now just the creepy thought of him in the same room with Ava Gardner gave me pause. Then I realized that she also had to put up with him and pretend that he was in any way interesting.’
Sharon said all she could think about was how the actor in question, whom they had insisted on hiring, ‘couldn’t get one whole scene out in the test.’
‘Now you think if I f*** him, he will become a fine actor? Nobody’s that good in bed,’ she noted. ‘I felt they could have just hired a costar with talent, someone who could deliver a scene and remember his lines. I also felt they could f*** him themselves and leave me out of it. It was my job to act and I said so.
‘This was not a popular response. I was considered difficult.’
Nonetheless, Billy, now 61, himself has since gone on to build a lengthy resume of film and TV credits including Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Gossip Girl.
And just two years after Sliver, in 1995, the actor tied the knot withΒ Chynna Phillips – daughter of Mamas & the Papas band members John and Michelle Phillips.
The couple, who have sinceΒ welcomed three kids together, had recently laid bare theirΒ marital issuesΒ in a series of frank YouTube clips.
The pair opened up about a serious ‘rupture’ in their relationship after Chynna converted to Christianity.
‘Now you think if I f*** him, he will become a fine actor? Nobody’s that good in bed,’ Sharon wrote of the situation in her memoir of her Sliver costar (pictured)
Speaking about Billy, she wrote:Β ‘I felt they could have just hired a costar with talent, someone who could deliver a scene and remember his lines’
Sharon said Sliver (pictured) still took a substantial $280million at the box office even if it fell below expectations
Just two years after Sliver, in 1995, the actor tied the knot with Chynna Phillips – daughter of Mamas & the Papas band members John and Michelle Phillips
Elsewhere during the interview,Β Sharon shed light on working with Total Recall star, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
When speaking about her co-star she spoke on 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 described him as a ‘brilliant man’ as she delved into her time working alongside Schwarzenegger.
Moving onto Sharon’s love life, the two discussed Sharon’s stint on the dating app Bumble after Louis points out that she was ‘kicked off for impersonating herself.’
Additionally, she also reveals that she ‘ended up having all different kinds of experiments.’
Being on the app during the pandemic, she found herself ‘FaceTiming people and chatting for a long time over text,’ describing the dates she found herself on as a ‘calamity.’
