“We need to think a lot more about what women can do,” Sharon Stone told a packed NYC ballroom on Tuesday, speaking passionately about her early career; women in films; And primal instinctthe 1992 project that was groundbreaking and traumatizing for the actor.
Stone was a small-town girl who came to New York as an aspiring actress “with my suitcase and 50 bucks,” she said at the 43rd annual Muse Awards presented by New York Women in Film & Television. “I walked the streets and checked every pay phone for loose change so I could take the subway instead of walking all the way back to Elizabeth and Houston, where I lived on the fifth floor. a bakery in a studio with my boyfriend and … lots and lots of cockroaches.
“It was very exciting and very difficult”, not least because there were “four women in the film” at the time. Four – this is no joke.
It was stressful. “When I went on set, there were 300 men, and my hair, makeup and dressers were men when I shot sex scenes. It was all me and men. And sometimes I could ask the dressing room attendant, who might be a woman, if she wouldn’t mind staying on set while I did it. When they didn’t even clear the set for this, I heard an actor yell, “Can you move out of the way?” I can’t even see her tits across the room.’”
“Well, things have changed and now there are women in film and I’m really grateful,” she said.
Stone, who won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for it casino, is also a producer, writer and philanthropist working on issues ranging from working conditions to equal pay. She said so before basic instinct, Women in movies usually crossed their legs at the ankles and couldn’t raise their arms. “No armpits.” She recalled today how people laughed when she was nominated for a Golden Globe for the film in which she plays a serial killer famous for flashing a group of police interviewers in one scene. Worse, she said on a recent podcast appearance that the films cost her custody of their young son.
“Now if they call my name and say I did it primal instinctThere was cheering in the room,” she said.
The actor never seems to be far from the zeitgeist and recently made an unusual appearance SNL with music guest Sam Smith and revealed she lost half her money when the SVB bank collapsed. (Federal regulators stopped all deposits.)
Janet Yang, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who was also honored for vision and achievement, shed tears as she thought of her mother, who was born in Hunan, China in 1917 and died last year at the age of 104 . in the century of her life is quite amazing and I think it gives me tremendous confidence in the possibility and power of change,” she said. Among a generation of Chinese women allowed to attend school, she eventually made her way to the United States as a graduate student, followed by a long career at the United Nations. “Once she got permission, she just gave herself the freedom to be herself.”
Yang, executive producer of the groundbreaking 1993 film The Joy Happiness Club based on Amy Tan’s novel, said she had “zero role models” in the entertainment industry growing up doing what I do. But “complex women have populated the screens in droves in recent years,” incl Everything, everywhere, all at once.
“Finally we have a real Asian playing an Asian without compromise and winning an Oscar for it,” she said of Michelle Yeoh.
Other NYWIFT honorees included actors Frieda Pinto, Danielle Brooks and Lauren Ridloff; Arianna Bocco, president of IFC Films; writer and director Deborah Chow; journalist Maria Hinojosa; and activist/philanthropist Sandra Lee.
Source: Deadline
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