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Sharon Stone was pressured to have sex with co-stars, discusses ordeals
Vanity Fair published an extract from Sharon Stone’s upcoming memoir, “The Beauty of Living Twice,” on Thursday, and the passages detailed some horrible abuse by movie executives.
Stone said one unidentified producer urged her to have real-life sex with a male co-star on an unnamed movie to help salvage the fizzling picture.
“He walked back and forth in his office with the [malted milk] balls falling out of the spout and rolling all over the wood floor as he explained to me why I should fuck my co-star so that we could have on-screen chemistry,” Stone wrote. “Why, in his day, he made love to Ava Gardner onscreen and it was so sensational! Now just the creepy thought of him in the same room with Ava Gardner gave me pause.”
The “The Quick and the Dead” and “Total Recall” actress describes how the anonymous producer persisted on casting this unnamed actor, even though “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. This was not a popular response. I was considered difficult.”
Stone claims she has had similar encounters with other producers, who have gone to her trailer and said, “So, are you going to fuck him, or aren’t you? … You know it would go better if you did.”
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“Sex, not just sexuality onscreen, has long been expected in my business,” she writes.
“Many people ask me what it was like in my days of being a superstar. It was like this. Play ball or get off the field, girl,” says the Oscar nominee.
Other incidences mentioned by the actress include being informed by a previous manager that no one would hire her because she wasn’t “fuckable,” as well as a “#MeToo candidate” who caused issues on set because she refused to “sit in his lap and take direction.”
He declined to shoot with her when she refused.
Stone also said that speaking out on set earned her the label of “difficult,” which she feels hindered her Hollywood career.
When it comes to ruffling feathers — in Hollywood and beyond — with her new autobiography’s frank disclosures, Stone has one message for prospective detractors in her pages.
“You can’t shame me.”
The Golden Globe winner’s biography is expected to go into great depth about her part in Basic Instinct, including the notorious leg-crossing sequence, as well as how she had to battle for the lead role of Catherine Tramell because “Michael Douglas didn’t want to test with me.”
In 1992’s Basic Instinct, the actress notably had a short full-frontal naked moment in the iconic and controversial interrogation scene, which she also discusses in her biography. Sharon Stone elaborates on her prior remarks, explaining that she was forced to expose her crotch without wearing panties. According to the 63-year-old actress, the crew couldn’t see anything on set because her white underwear was “reflecting the light.”