Having trouble breaking through Hollywood, Sharon Stone was propelled to the rank of planetary star thanks to her performance in the cult film by Paul Verhoeven, Basic Instinct. In this feature film released in theaters in 1992, the actress shares the top bill with Michael Douglas. However, Sharon Stone, who has something in common with Lady Diana, has Almost never starred in this movie because of his playmate. The actress was also somewhat bitter when talking about this anecdote in her memories, baptized The beauty of living twice, some extracts of which have been published by Vanity Fair.
In fact, Sharon Stone reveals that her agent had fought at the time for her to pass the auditions of Basic Instinct, calling "every day for seven or eight months" director Paul Verhoeven. "I had already played for Paul in Total Recall, But Michael Douglas didn't want to audition with me. Hey, I was nobody, compared to him, and it was a risky movie (…) Finally, after offering the role to 12 actresses, who all turned it down, Michael deigned to give me a try," explained the one who posed topless at the age of 61. In her memoir, Sharon Stone also recounts the many "#MeToo moments" that she had to face as a woman in Hollywood.
Sharon Stone: "I have been labeled as a 'difficult' actress"
The actress notably mentioned the strange request of a producer, whose name she did not reveal. "He explained to me why I had to fuck my playmate, so that there is better chemistry on the screen. And why, in his day, he had made love with Ava Gardner on screen, and how sensational it had been! The very creepy thought of imagining him in the same room as Ava Gardner got me thinking, " revealed the one who was devastated by the suicide of one of her exes.
"You keep wanting this actor for the movie when he failed to play a single scene properly at the auditions… And now you think if i fuck him he will become a better actor? Nobody is such a good shot. I figured they could just have hired a talented actor, someone who could act and remember his lines. I also told myself that they could fuck him themselves and leave me alone. My job was to play, and that's what I told them. From there, I was labeled as a 'difficult' actress," Sharon Stone concluded.
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