Current:Home > InvestSharon Stone reveals studio executive who allegedly pressured her to have sex with Billy Baldwin -Pinnacle Profit Strategies
Sharon Stone reveals studio executive who allegedly pressured her to have sex with Billy Baldwin
View
Date:2025-04-15 22:21:50
Sharon Stone has revealed the name of the Hollywood producer and studio executive who she said pressured her to have sex with her "Sliver" co-star William "Billy" Baldwin.
In a Monday episode of "The Louis Theroux Podcast," Stone, 66, said one of the film's producers, Robert Evans, pressured her to sleep with Baldwin, now 61, in an effort to get a "better" performance from the actor in the 1993 film.
"He called me to his office. … He had these very low, '70s (or) '80s couches, so I'm essentially sitting on the floor when I should have been on set," she told British-American journalist and host Louis Theroux.
"And he's running around his office in his sunglasses explaining to me that he slept with Ava Gardner," she said. "And I should sleep with Billy Baldwin because if I slept with" him, his "performance would get better. And we needed Billy to get better in the movie, because that was the problem."
Evans died in 2019. A rep for Baldwin declined to comment.
The "Basic Instinct" actress said Evans believed her having sex with Baldwin would give the pair better "chemistry on screen" and would "save the movie."
She continued: "And the real problem in the movie was me. Because I was so uptight, and so not like a real actress who could just (expletive) him and get things back on track."
Stone was also frustrated that the producer wouldn't listen to her "list" of casting suggestions.
"They expect me to go from Michael Douglas to Billy Baldwin," Stone said of her "Basic Instinct" co-star. "I didn't have to (sleep with) Michael Douglas. Michael could come to work and know how to hit those marks, and do that line, and rehearse and show up."
Sharon Stonealleges former Sony exec sexually harassed her: 'I became hysterical'
She continued: "Now, all of a sudden, I'm in the 'I have to (have sex with) people' business."
Stone first told the story in her 2021 memoir, "The Beauty of Living Twice," though she did not name the producer or her co-star at the time.
Stone has been forthcoming with her experience dealing with sexual harassment in the film and TV industry.
In November, Stone told Kelly Ripa on her "Let's Talk Off Camera" podcast that during a meeting with a former Sony head executive in the 1980s, he exposed himself to her. Stone did not name the former executive.
Evans was a studio executive at Paramount Pictures, which produced the 1968 film "Rosemary's Baby," 1970's "Love Story" and 1972's "The Godfather" during his tenure.
Evans is credited as a producer on "Sliver," the 1980 film "Popeye" based on the comic strip starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall, and the 1974 film "Chinatown" starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. He died in 2019 at 89.
veryGood! (68372)
Related
- Nevada attorney general revives 2020 fake electors case
- Famed Cuban diva Juana Bacallao, who ruled the island's cabaret scene, dies at 98
- Man beat woman to death with ceramic toilet cover in Washington hotel, police say
- Most-Shopped Celeb-Recommended Items This Month: Olivia Culpo, Kyle Richards, Zayn Malik, and More
- Nevada attorney general revives 2020 fake electors case
- Most-Shopped Celeb-Recommended Items This Month: Olivia Culpo, Kyle Richards, Zayn Malik, and More
- Amy Schumer says criticism of her rounder face led to diagnosis of Cushing syndrome
- A New York City medical school goes tuition-free thanks to a $1 billion gift
- Selena Gomez engaged to Benny Blanco after 1 year together: 'Forever begins now'
- Man arrested in connection with Kentucky student wrestler's death: What we know
Ranking
- Buckingham Palace staff under investigation for 'bar brawl'
- Meet Grace Beyer, the small-school scoring phenom Iowa star Caitlin Clark might never catch
- No retirement plan, no problem: These states set up automatic IRAs for workers
- A New York City medical school goes tuition-free thanks to a $1 billion gift
- South Korean president's party divided over defiant martial law speech
- Republicans say Georgia student’s killing shows Biden’s migration policies have failed
- 15-year-old from Massachusetts arrested in shooting of Vermont woman found in a vehicle
- Nate Burleson and his wife explore her ancestral ties to Tulsa Massacre
Recommendation
Highlights from Trump’s interview with Time magazine
Biden calls meeting with congressional leaders as shutdown threat grows
USWNT vs. Mexico: Live stream, how to watch W Gold Cup group stage match
Husband of BP worker pleads guilty in insider trading case after listening to wife's work calls, feds say
North Carolina trustees approve Bill Belichick’s deal ahead of introductory news conference
Supreme Court takes up regulation of social media platforms in cases from Florida and Texas
MLB's 'billion dollar answer': Building a horse geared to win in the modern game
US government may sue PacifiCorp, a Warren Buffett utility, for nearly $1B in wildfire costs