Billy Baldwin and Sharon Stone.Photo:Ernesto Ruscio/Getty; Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Vanity FairBilly Baldwinis responding toSharon Stone’s claim that she waspressured to have sex with himto help his “performance” inSliver.Baldwin, 61, shared a post onX (formerly known as Twitter)on Tuesday afternoon after she said on theLouis Theroux Podcastthat late producerRobert Evansencouraged Stone, 66, to sleep with her costar during the making of the 1993 thriller.“Not sure why Sharon Stone keep talking about me all these years later?” began Baldwin in the post that featured a photo of the two in a scene from the film.“Does she still have a crush on me or is she still hurt after all these years because I shunned her advances?”Sliver.EverettNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.During the podcast, Stone shared that one day during production, she was called into Evans' office to have a conversation about the chemistry between her and her costar.“He’s running around his office in his sunglasses, explaining to me that he slept withAva Gardnerand I should sleep with Billy Baldwin, because if I slept with Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin’s performance would get better,” Stone recalled on the podcast. “And we needed Billy to get better in the movie, because that was the problem.“TheBasic Instinctactress said that the producer believed if she slept with Baldwin, “then [they] would have chemistry onscreen, and if [she] would just have sex with him, then that would save the movie.“Billy Baldwin, Sharon Stone, Robert Evans.Everett, E. Charbonneau/WireImage"And the real problem in the movie was me because I was so uptight, and so not like a real actress, who could just f— him and get things back on track. And the real problem is that I was such a tight ass,” Stone said.TheTotal Recallactress said Evans insisted on casting Baldwin instead, rather than “listen to the list of actors” that she suggested for the part of Zeke Hawkins.She also previously shared in her 2021 memoir,The Beauty of Living Twice, that she had “actor approval” in her contract.“No one cared,” she explained. “They cast who they wanted. To my dismay, sometimes. To the detriment of the picture, sometimes.”
Billy Baldwin and Sharon Stone.Photo:Ernesto Ruscio/Getty; Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Vanity Fair
Ernesto Ruscio/Getty; Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Vanity Fair
Billy Baldwinis responding toSharon Stone’s claim that she waspressured to have sex with himto help his “performance” inSliver.Baldwin, 61, shared a post onX (formerly known as Twitter)on Tuesday afternoon after she said on theLouis Theroux Podcastthat late producerRobert Evansencouraged Stone, 66, to sleep with her costar during the making of the 1993 thriller.“Not sure why Sharon Stone keep talking about me all these years later?” began Baldwin in the post that featured a photo of the two in a scene from the film.“Does she still have a crush on me or is she still hurt after all these years because I shunned her advances?”Sliver.EverettNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.During the podcast, Stone shared that one day during production, she was called into Evans' office to have a conversation about the chemistry between her and her costar.“He’s running around his office in his sunglasses, explaining to me that he slept withAva Gardnerand I should sleep with Billy Baldwin, because if I slept with Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin’s performance would get better,” Stone recalled on the podcast. “And we needed Billy to get better in the movie, because that was the problem.“TheBasic Instinctactress said that the producer believed if she slept with Baldwin, “then [they] would have chemistry onscreen, and if [she] would just have sex with him, then that would save the movie.“Billy Baldwin, Sharon Stone, Robert Evans.Everett, E. Charbonneau/WireImage"And the real problem in the movie was me because I was so uptight, and so not like a real actress, who could just f— him and get things back on track. And the real problem is that I was such a tight ass,” Stone said.TheTotal Recallactress said Evans insisted on casting Baldwin instead, rather than “listen to the list of actors” that she suggested for the part of Zeke Hawkins.She also previously shared in her 2021 memoir,The Beauty of Living Twice, that she had “actor approval” in her contract.“No one cared,” she explained. “They cast who they wanted. To my dismay, sometimes. To the detriment of the picture, sometimes.”
Billy Baldwinis responding toSharon Stone’s claim that she waspressured to have sex with himto help his “performance” inSliver.
Baldwin, 61, shared a post onX (formerly known as Twitter)on Tuesday afternoon after she said on theLouis Theroux Podcastthat late producerRobert Evansencouraged Stone, 66, to sleep with her costar during the making of the 1993 thriller.
“Not sure why Sharon Stone keep talking about me all these years later?” began Baldwin in the post that featured a photo of the two in a scene from the film.
“Does she still have a crush on me or is she still hurt after all these years because I shunned her advances?”
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During the podcast, Stone shared that one day during production, she was called into Evans' office to have a conversation about the chemistry between her and her costar.
“He’s running around his office in his sunglasses, explaining to me that he slept withAva Gardnerand I should sleep with Billy Baldwin, because if I slept with Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin’s performance would get better,” Stone recalled on the podcast. “And we needed Billy to get better in the movie, because that was the problem.”
TheBasic Instinctactress said that the producer believed if she slept with Baldwin, “then [they] would have chemistry onscreen, and if [she] would just have sex with him, then that would save the movie.”
Billy Baldwin, Sharon Stone, Robert Evans.Everett, E. Charbonneau/WireImage
Everett, E. Charbonneau/WireImage
“And the real problem in the movie was me because I was so uptight, and so not like a real actress, who could just f— him and get things back on track. And the real problem is that I was such a tight ass,” Stone said.
TheTotal Recallactress said Evans insisted on casting Baldwin instead, rather than “listen to the list of actors” that she suggested for the part of Zeke Hawkins.
She also previously shared in her 2021 memoir,The Beauty of Living Twice, that she had “actor approval” in her contract.
“No one cared,” she explained. “They cast who they wanted. To my dismay, sometimes. To the detriment of the picture, sometimes.”
source: people.com
