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It is a famous and nauseating anecdote from Hollywood that Basic instinct star Sharon Stone was unaware that the famous interrogation scene from the 1992 erotic thriller featured a photo directly over her skirt until she saw the full movie. “That’s how I saw my shot in the vagina for the first time, long after they told me, ‘We can’t see anything – I just need you to take your panties off, because the white is reflecting the light, so we know you’re wearing your panties. ”, Says the actress, in a new excerpt from her memoir to be published, The beauty of living twice, on March 30, published in Vanity Fair. “Yes, there have been many points of view on this subject, but since I am the one with the vagina in question, let me say: the other points of view are bullshit.” The story is just one example of the glove Stone describes as an actress working in the industry in the 1980s and 1990s, perhaps best exemplified by her revelation that a producer allegedly tried to force her to sleep with a castmate. to promote “on-screen chemistry”. Can’t we just let the actors act, guys ?!
“I asked a producer to take me to his office, where he had malted balls of milk in a small milk carton container under his arm with an open spout,” recalls the actress. “He walked up and down in his office with the balls falling out of the spout and rolling all over the wooden floor while explaining to me why I should have sex with my back so that we could have chemistry on the screen. Why, in his day, he made love to Ava Gardner on screen and it was so amazing! Now, just the scary thought of him in the same room with Ava Gardner gave me a break. “
Stone says: “I watched the chocolate balls roll, thinking, you insisted on this actor when he failed to do a whole scene on the audition … Now do you think that if I have sex with him, he will become a great actor? No one is so good in bed. I thought they could have just hired a talented co-actor, someone who could make a scene and remember their lines. I also felt that they could fuck him themselves and leave me out of it. It was my job to act, and I said that. This was not a popular response. I was considered difficult. “
Although Stone itself does not say names, New York Publish say they contacted the actress and she Sliver ask William Baldwin to comment on the story. THE Publish points out that the producer of the 1993 thriller, the late Robert Evans, starred with Ava Gardner in 1957 The sun also rises during his acting career.
“I’ve had other producers in other films that came to my trailer and asked, ‘So, are you going to have sex with him or not? You know it would be better if you did it, ‘”says Stone, noting that still others“ threatened to fire me if I didn’t. ” Still, the actress is optimistic about the effects of #MeToo on the industry and, man, it’s hard to imagine things worst than they have been.
“Thank God it’s not like that now,” says Stone of Hollywood in 2021. “The whole system is changing. The financial burden is real, and the old boys’ club is no longer handling it. There are more women in charge, and they are not in the men’s pockets, forced to play along or be fired ”.