Sharon Stone names producer who 'pressured her to have sex with Billy Baldwin'

12 March 2024 , 15:56

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Sharon Stone opens up on which producer pressured to be intimate with film co-star

Hollywood actress Sharon Stone claims she was asked to have sex with her co-star Billy Baldwin by a famous producer to help make her movie a hit at the box office.

The actress previously alluded to the pressurised moment in her 2021 memoir, but she didn't disclose the identities of the producer or her co-star. However, the award-winning actress has now revealed who she claims pushed her to get intimate and who with.

The actress claims that producer Robert Evans - who died in 2019 - told her that sleeping with her co-star Billy Baldwin on the set of 1993 film Sliver would help them to have 'better chemistry' on screen. Stone claims Evans, who was also a producer on Chinatown and The Cotton Club as well as being involved with top films such as The Godfather, The Italian Job, True Grit and The Great Gatsby, had pulled her off-set to discuss the issues between the two co-stars.

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Sharon Stone revealed she was 'pressured' to sleep with co-star Billy Baldwin to improve their on-screen chemistry in 1993 film Sliver (Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)

Stone opened up on Louis Theroux's podcast, as she said: "They expected me to bring home another giant smash hit and they gave me casting approval and they gave me all these approvals, but then when it came time for me to do it they told me it was a vanity deal and I couldn't have my approvals. Then they started to try to blame me for their mistakes, and they made terrible mistakes in the way that they hired directors and cast."

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Discussing her co-star Billy Baldwin, Stone didn't hold back as she revealed that he "couldn't get one whole scene out in the test". Stone also expressed her frustration as she praised her Basic Instinct co-star Michael Douglas, and compared him to Baldwin as she explained: "I didn't have to f*** Michael Douglas. Michael could come to work and know how to hit those marks, and do that line, and rehearse and show up. Now all of a sudden I'm in the "I have to f*** people" business."

Sharon Stone also revealed it was producer Robert Evans who said sleeping with her co-star would improve the film (WireImage)

The actress opened up on the Louis Theroux podcast that she was 'blamed' and labelled as 'difficult' for pushing back (WireImage for Vanity Fair)

She then added that she was told that "If I could sleep with Billy then we'd have chemistry on screen, and if I would just have sex with him then that would save the movie, and the real problem with 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. The real problem was I was such a tight a**e."

She told interviewer Louis Theroux that she was left frustrated over not being allowed to have her choice of co-star, as she said: "I felt they could have just hired a costar with talent, someone who could deliver a scene and remember his lines. I also felt they could f*** him themselves and leave me out of it. It was my job to act and I said so. This was not a popular response. I was considered difficult." Stone also revealed that the movie then failed to perform at the box office, taking $280million but still coming in below expectations.

Niamh Spence