Sharon Stone threatened, attacked and defended by the Saturday Night Live producer live: it’s an astonishing anecdote that the Basic Instinct star recently told in a podcast.
This is a rather chilling behind-the-scenes anecdote that Sharon Stone made on the podcast microphone Fly on the Wall, hosted by the duo Dana Carvey and David Spade. The actress warmly thanked Lorne Michaels, producer of Saturday Night Live, a cult weekly sketch show broadcast on Saturday evenings.
With 49 seasons on the clock and a number of shows which is slowly approaching 1000 episodes, it is one of the television programs broadcast for the longest time on the American network. Since 1975 in fact, that shows its longevity.
“We are protesting the homophobia and misogyny in Hollywood, as evidenced in this film”
Why is Sharon Stone thanking Lorne Michaels? The actress was the hostess of SNL in an episode, in 1992. An episode filmed (live remember, this is the principle of the show) just after the release of her sulphurous erotic thriller, Basic Instinct.
“A group of people started storming the stage, saying they were going to kill me during the opening monologue”says the actress. “The police, who are always there during this time, and the security service too, froze because they had never seen anything like this happen.
Somehow they froze. Lorne started yelling, “What are you guys doing watching this fucking show?” And he himself began to jump into the fray and fight, and remove these people from the scene.
All these people were fighting and handcuffed in front of me, and we were live. I was doing this monologue live while they were beating and handcuffing people at my feet.”
Six people were arrested that evening, while a spokesperson for the group of agitators said: “We are protesting Hollywood’s homophobia and misogyny, as evidenced in this film.”
“They were furious because it was the beginning of my work as a field worker and an AIDS activist. They didn’t understand, no one understood at that time, what was really happening, and they didn’t didn’t know if AmFAR could be trusted.” continues Sharon Stone, who admits to having been terrified during the rest of the show after this violent incident.
A role that cost him dearly
Basic Instinct, a famous role for the actress, which ended up costing her dearly. In 2023, Sharon Stone already recounted that in the battle following her divorce between her husband at the time, the journalist Phil Bronstein, she had lost custody of her adopted son, then 8 years old, in 2008. because of his role in the sulphurous thriller.
Her nude scenes in the film were used against her in the divorce proceedings. “I lost custody of my child when the judge asked him, ‘Do you know that your mom acts in erotic films?’ They decided what kind of parent I was based on my decision to do this. movie”.