The ‘Basic Instinct’ star, 66, has said the late Robert Evans, who died in 2019 aged 89, wanted her to get intimate with Billy Baldwin, 61, while they filmed 1993’s ‘Sliver’ as he became convinced their real-life intimacy would improve his acting and “save” the movie.
“He called me to his office,” she told ‘The Louis Theroux Podcast.’ “He had these very low ’70s, ’80s couches, so I’m essentially sitting on the floor, when I should have been on set.
“And he’s running around his office in sunglasses explaining to me that he slept with Ava Gardner and I should sleep with Billy Baldwin, because if I slept with Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin’s performance would get better, and we needed Billy to get better in the movie because that was the problem.”
Sharon added Robert was convinced her bedding Billy – who is now married to 56-year-old singer Chynna Phillips – would give the pair better “chemistry on screen” which he apparently told her would “save the movie”.
She added: “The real problem with the movie was me because I was so uptight, and so not like a real actress who could just (have sex with) him and get things back on track.
“The real problem was I was (so uptight.)”
Sharon also admitted on the podcast she was frustrated the ‘Sliver’ team had not listened to her suggestions on whom to cast instead of Billy.
She said: “I didn’t have to (have sex with) Michael Douglas (while on ‘Basic Instinct’ together.)
“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 (have sex with) people’ business.”
Baldwin responds
In response, Billy Baldwin has furiously hit back at Stone’s claims in a post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), accusing her of being ‘hurt he shunned her advances’ and threatening to ‘write a book about the many disturbing, kinky tales’ he knows about her.
“Not sure why Sharon Stone keep talking about me all these years later?” he wrote. “Does she still have a crush on me or is she still hurt after all these years because I shunned her advances?”
The actor also insisted Stone had told her friend Janice Dickinson at the time; “I’m gonna make him fall so hard for me, it’s gonna make his head spin.”
In a statement to the Daily Mail Dickinson denied recalling the conversation.
‘As I recall Sharon never said that to me. I am not sure why Billy Baldwin is bringing this up. I adore them both but that never happened,’ Dickinson said.
Autobiography claims
Sharon first revealed the situation with Robert and Billy in her 2021 autobiography ‘The Beauty of Living Twice’ – but didn’t name either the producer or actor in the book.
She said in the memoir: “(The producer) walked back and forth in his office… as he explained to me why I should (have sex with) my co-star so that we could have on-screen chemistry.
“Now you think if I (have sex with) him, he will become a fine actor? Nobody’s that good in bed. I felt they could have just hired a co-star with talent, someone who could deliver a scene and remember his lines.”
Sharon added she decided bosses on the film – which earned $280 million at the box office despite being mauled by critics – could leave her “out of” the idea, saying: “It was my job to act and I said so.”
