Sharon Stone names the producer who told her to sleep with co-star Billy Baldwin

Sharon Stone has revealed the name of the producer who she claims suggested she sleep with him sliver Co-star William “Billy” Baldwin has “better on-screen chemistry.”

The actress previously spoke about the incident in her 2021 memoir The beauty of living twice But she never revealed the name of the product. Now on Tuesday’s episode of Louis Theroux PodcastThat was in 1993, Stone shared sliver Producer Robert Evans, who died in 2019.

Stone recalled the incident, saying she “should have been on set” by the time Evans called her into his office to discuss her on-screen relationship with Baldwin.

“He’s walking around his office with his sunglasses on, explaining to me that he slept with Ava Gardner and I should sleep with Billy Baldwin, because if I sleep with Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin will do better,” Stone claimed of their conversation. “We needed Billy to get better on film, because that was the problem.”

The actress added that Evan thought, “If I could sleep with Billy, our chemistry would show on screen, and if I could just have sex with him, that would save the movie. The real problem in the movie was me because I was so nervous, I wasn’t Like a real actress, who could have fucked him and gotten things back on track.The real problem was that I was too strict.

After the podcast aired, Baldwin quickly took to X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday to respond to Stone’s accusations and threaten to “write a book and tell many disturbing, bizarre, and unprofessional stories about Sharon.”

“I’m not sure why Sharon Stone keeps talking about me all these years later? Does she still like me or is she still hurt after all these years that I avoided her advances?” Baldwin wrote. screening and I met them on our MGM Grand flight to New York… “I’m going to make him fall so hard for me, it’s going to make his head spin.” ‘ ???? I have so much dirt on her that it might make her head spin but I kept quiet.

He continued, “The story of the encounter I had with Bob Evans in which I begged him to let me choreograph the final sex scene pictured below so I wouldn’t have to kiss Sharon is an absolute legend. I wonder if I should write a book and tell the many disturbing, strange and unsavory tales “Professional about Sharon? That could be fun.”

However, the actress’s comment about Janice Dickinson is not exactly how she remembers it. In a statement by L daily MailShe refuted Baldwin’s claims, saying she did not remember the aforementioned conversation with Stone. “As I recall, Sharon never said that to me,” Dickinson told the site. “I’m not sure why Billy Baldwin brought this up. I adore them both but it never happened.

In her 2021 diary The beauty of living twiceStone initially revealed the incident occurred during the filming of the 1993 film directed by Philip Noyce silver. In the book, she shared that a producer tried to pressure her into having sex with her co-star as a way to “have on-screen chemistry,” but she maintained that she never did anything. “I felt like they could have hired a co-star with talent, someone who could deliver a scene and remember his lines,” Stone wrote. “I also felt like they could have killed him themselves and left me out of it.”

On the Louis Theroux PodcastStone also claimed that Evans insisted on casting Baldwin for the film and “would not listen to the list of actors I suggested for the role.”

She also brought up her time filming Basic instinctwhich had been released the previous year, in 1992, noting that she “didn’t have to have sex with Michael Douglas”, her co-star in that film.

“Michael can come to work and know how to hit these marks and do this line and practice and show up,” the actress added. “Now all of a sudden I’m in the realm of ‘I have to have sex with people.’