Sharon Stone claims she was pressured to have sex with co-star
Screen goddess Sharon Stone is saying “#MeToo” — and coming out swinging against Hollywood predators in her explosive upcoming memoir.
The Ratched star details a number of unsavoury sexual
harassment situations she’s endured throughout her 40-year career in her new
memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, out March 30 from Knopf.
Although she heaps praise on some film execs and co-stars
(especially her Basic Instinct leading man Michael Douglas), Stone said one
unnamed producer pressured her to have real-life sex with a male co-star on an
unnamed movie to help save the fizzling film.
The flamboyant, candy-wielding producer allegedly asked her
point blank to bed her struggling leading man, the 63-year-old writes in the
exclusive book excerpt in Vanity Fair.
In her bombshell book, Stone recounts how she once “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,” she writes. “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**k my
co-star so that we could have on-screen chemistry.”
The Casino Oscar nominee (BTW: Stone also has nothing but
high praise for that 1995 film’s director, Martin Scorsese, in her book) goes
on to reveal how the unnamed Hollywood honcho claimed “he made love to Ava
Gardner on-screen and it was so sensational! Now just the creepy thought of him
in the same room with Ava Gardner gave me pause.”
Despite having actor approval in her contracts, Stone
claimed that movie producers repeatedly blew her off to “cast who they wanted.
To my dismay, sometimes.”
The Quick and the Dead and Total Recall actress also details
how the unnamed producer in question actually insisted on casting this unnamed
actor, even “when he couldn’t get one whole scene out in the test … Now you
think if I f**k him, he will become a fine actor? Nobody’s that good in bed. I
felt they could have just hired a co-star with talent, someone who could
deliver a scene and remember his lines. I also felt they could f**k him
themselves and leave me out of it. It was my job to act and I said so.”
Some insiders are guessing that the unnamed player could be
Stone’s Sliver producer, the late Robert Evans of Love Story and The Godfather
fame, who was previously an actor — and co-starred with Gardner in 1957’s The
Sun Also Rises, an adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel of the same name.
Their 1993 erotic thriller Sliver flopped, but the legendary
Evans scored a late-career revival as the subject of the acclaimed 2002
documentary inspired by his own memoir, The Kid Stays in the Picture. He died
at 89 in 2019.
Reps for the actress/author did not immediately respond to
The Post’s request for comment about the growing buzz surrounding her
accusations. (We also reached out to Stone’s Sliver leading man, William
Baldwin, 58, for comment about the unconfirmed rumours and will update if we
hear back).
Of course, Stone confirmed in the VF excerpt that she
refused the offer to help rescue the faltering film with her body — “but [the
actor] did make a few haphazard passes at me in the upcoming weeks, I’m sure
spurred on by this genius.”
As for ruffling feathers — in Hollywood or beyond — with the
raw revelations in her new autobiography, Stone has one big message for
potential haters in her pages.
“You can’t shame me.”
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