Sharon Stone says SLIVER producer Robert Evans told her to have sex with co-star Billy Baldwin to build chemistry and ‘save the movie’

Oscar nominated actress Sharon Stone (Primitive instinct, Casino) has spoken a few times about the difficulties she’s faced as a woman in Hollywood, and this story she told on the latest episode of “The Louis Theroux Podcast” is really stupid. She explained that producer Robert Evans he advised her to have sex with her co-star Billy Baldwin to save their film, Tape.

The director’s 1993 thriller Philip Noyce Stone played the role of a book publisher who moves into an exclusive New York City apartment building and discovers that its residents are hiding dark secrets. Evans supposedly wanted Stone and Baldwin to have better “onscreen chemistry” because it would “save the movie.” She remembered:

“He’s running around his office with 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 improve. And we needed Billy to get better in the movie because that was the problem. If I could sleep with Billy then we would have chemistry on screen, and if I just had sex with him then it would save the movie. The real problem in the movie was me, because I was so uptight, and therefore 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 hard dick.

How disgusting. Stone came from the successful success of Primitive instinct at that moment and I remembered:

“I didn’t have to f*ck Michael Douglas. Michael could come to work and know how to achieve those results, make that joke, try and show up. Now, all of a sudden, I’m in the ‘I have to screw people’ business.”

Evans died in 2019 at the age of 89. Tape was a moderate box office success with $116 million at the worldwide box office. Evans made a name for himself during the New Hollywood era as head of Paramount Pictures from 1967 to 1974. He was a producer of iconic films such as Rosemary’s baby (1968), Love story (1970) e The Godfather (1972).

Stone first wrote about the Tape incident in his 2021 memoir, The beauty of living twice, although he didn’t name Evans at the time. An excerpt reads:

“Now do you think if I fuck him, he will become a good actor? Nobody is that good in bed. I felt like they could have hired a costar with talent, someone who could deliver a scene and remember his lines. I also felt like they could screw it themselves and leave me out of it. My job was acting and I said so. This was not a popular response. I was considered difficult.”

Stone also said in the interview that she often had to deal with violent men in power, including the “pig” Harvey Weinstein. “He definitely felt comfortable throwing me across the room when he was mad at me because I wouldn’t do what he wanted me to do,” Stone said, adding that she was happy Weinstein is now in prison. as a rapist.

Billy Baldwin he answered to all of this in an unpleasant way: “Not sure why Sharon Stone keeps talking about me after all these years? Does she still have a crush on me or is she still hurt after all these years because I avoided her advances? She told her friend Janice Dickinson the day after she auditioned and met them on our MGM Grand flight back to New York… “I’m going to make him fall in love so much that she’ll make his head spin.” ??? I have so much dirt on me that it would make her dizzy, but I kept quiet. The story of the meeting I had with Bob Evans begging him to let me choreograph the final sex scene pictured below so I wouldn’t have to kiss Sharon is absolute legend. I wonder if I should write a book and tell the many, many disturbing, bizarre and unprofessional stories about Sharon? It could be fun.

Hollywood men had their time treating women like objects, and that time has come to an end. Not to say there aren’t still assholes out there, but thanks to women like Sharon Stone, who call out men who behave badly, the next generation has a chance to feel empowered to do so, too.

via: Variety