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Sharon Stone is not hiding anything.
In an excerpt from your next memoirs The beauty of living twice shared with Vanity Fair, the actress talks about the role that made her a star and several different moments of exploration #MeToo that she experienced as a woman in Hollywood.
In one case, she reveals that an unidentified producer brought her to her office to suggest that she sleep with a co-actor so that they would have more chemistry. “He explained to me why I should f- my supporting actor so that we could have chemistry on the screen. Why, in his day, he made love to Ava Gardner on the screen and it was so amazing! Now, just his scary thought in the same room with Ava Gardner gave me a break, “she wrote.
She says she remembers thinking, “You insisted on this actor when he failed to do a whole scene on the audition … Now do you think that if I f – him, he will become a great actor? No one is that good in bed I thought they could just have hired a talented co-actor, someone who could make a scene and remember his lines, I also felt that they could do it themselves and leave me out. It was my job to act and I said that. “As a result, Stone says she was labeled” difficult “.
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Stone, who says her former manager said that no one would hire her because she was not “capable”, also remembers working with a director whom she refers to simply as a “#MeToo candidate” who refused to shoot her because she would not “sit on his lap and follow directions”. According to Stone, the studio did nothing.
The Oscar-nominated actress also details her time working on her star turn in Basic instinct, for which she says she had to fight tooth and nail. His manager had to break into the casting director’s office to get a copy of the script, and then called the director, Paul Verhoeven, “every day for seven or eight months” to get a screen test for the role. “I had already done Total Recall with Paul, but Michael Douglas didn’t want to test with me, “she wrote.” Hey, I was nobody compared to him, and this was a very risky film. So Paul tested with me and continued to play my test after everyone else who took the test. “
She continued, “Eventually, after they offered the role to 12 other actresses who refused, Michael agreed to audition with me.” [Stone says that nowadays she and Douglas are friends, and she says she learned a lot from working with him.]
And, of course, there is the most infamous scene in the film, in which her character Catherine Tramell is interrogated and uncrosses her legs to reveal that she is not wearing any underwear. In her memoirs, Stone says the first time she saw her “shot in the vagina” was in a room full of agents and lawyers, many of whom had nothing to do with the film’s production, after she said, “I’ve been said, ‘We can’t see anything – I just need you to remove your panties, because the white is reflecting the light, so we know you’re wearing your panties. “She says she slapped the director’s face when she saw him and called to the lawyer, who said she could file an injunction against the film and prevent its release.
Stone finally decided against that. “After the screening, I informed Paul about the options Marty had set for me. Of course, he vehemently denied that I had any choice. I was just an actress, just a woman; what choices could I have?” she remembers. “But I had choices. So I thought and thought and chose to allow this scene in the film. Why? Because it was correct for the film and for the character; and because, after all, I did it.” [Verhoeven has denied Stone’s claims, saying that she knew what she was doing in the scene.]
Stone’s memoir will be available on March 30 through Knopf.
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