Sharon Stone Names Producer Who Told Her to Sleep with Sliver Costar Billy Baldwin, to Make His Performance ‘Better’

Sharon Stone opens up about feeling pressured to have sex with her a hint costar Billy Baldwin, to help his “performance” in the film.

After previously discussing the alleged incident between her and the producer in her 2021 memoir. The beauty of living twiceStone, 66, named him as the late Robert Evans, who produced her 1993 thriller. a hint. (Evans died in 2019, aged 89.)

the actress said on an episode of Spotify on Tuesday Louis Theroux Podcast that she was “supposed to be on set” but was called into Evans’ office to discuss her chemistry with Baldwin, 61.

“He’s running around his office with sunglasses on, explaining to me that he slept with Ava Gardner and I should sleep with Billy Baldwin, because if I slept with Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin’s performance would be better,” Stone recalled of their alleged conversation. . “And we needed Billy to get better in the movie, because that was the problem.”

A representative for Baldwin did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Tuesday.

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Enter Billy Baldwin and Sharon Stone a hint (1993).

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According to Stone, Evans’ logic was, “If I could sleep with Billy, then we’d have chemistry on screen, and if I just had sex with him, it would save the movie.”

“The real problem in the movie was me because I was so stiff, and so not like a real actress, who could just— and get things back on track. And the real problem is that I was such a stiff ass,” ” Total recall said the actress.

From L: Billy Baldwin and Sharon Stone enter a hint (1993); Robert Evans on May 16, 2007 in Beverly Hills, California.

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Stone went on to state in the podcast that Evans “didn’t want to listen to the list of actors I suggested for the role,” and insisted on casting Baldwin instead.

Her costar last year Basic instinctshe said, “I didn’t have to screw— Michael Douglas. Michael could come to work and just know how to hit those marks and deliver that line, and practice and show up. Now all of a sudden I’m in the ‘I gotta screw people’ business.”

In her memoirs, Stone recalled several instances when producers approached her about having sex with her colleagues The beauty of living twice.

Sharon Stone in New York on December 14, 2023.

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As she wrote in the book, “I had actor approval in my contract. Nobody cared. They cast whoever they wanted. To my horror, sometimes. To the detriment of the picture, sometimes.”

The casino the star recalled one producer (now named Evans) who brought her into his office and “explained to me why I should fuck my costar so we could have chemistry on screen.”

“You insisted on this actor when he couldn’t pull off a whole scene in a test,” Stone said, recalling her thinking at the time. “Now you think he’ll become a good actor if I fuck him? Nobody’s that good in bed.”

“I felt like they could have just hired a costar with talent, someone who could pull off a scene and remember his lines,” she continued. “My job was to act and I said no.”

Stone added that the actor “made a few random passes at me in the coming weeks,” which she felt were likely “prompted” by the producer.

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