Sharon Stone has revealed the name of the producer who she claimed suggested she sleep with her Sliver co-star William “Billy” Baldwin to have better “onscreen chemistry.”
The actress previously opened up about the incident in her 2021 memoir The Beauty of Living Twice but never divulged the producer’s name. Now, on Tuesday’s episode of the Louis Theroux Podcast, Stone shared that it was 1993’s Sliver producer Robert Evans, who died in 2019.
Stone recalled the incident, saying she “should’ve been on set” at the time when Evans called her into his office to discuss her onscreen connection with Baldwin.
“He’s running around his office in his 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,” Stone alleged of their conversation. “And we needed Billy to get better in the movie, because that was the problem.”
The actress added that Evan thought, “If I could sleep with Billy, then we would have chemistry onscreen, and if I would just have sex with him then that would save the movie. And the real problem in the movie was me because I was so uptight, and so not like a real actress, who could just fuck him and get things back on track. And the real problem was that I was such a tight ass.”
After the podcast aired, Baldwin quickly took to X (formerly Twitter) Tuesday to clap back at Stone’s accusations and threaten to “write a book and tell the many, many disturbing, kinky and unprofessional tales about Sharon.”
“Not sure why Sharon Stone keep talking about me all these years later? Does she still have a crush on me or is she still hurt after all these years because I shunned her advances?” Baldwin wrote. “Did she say to her gal pal Janice Dickinson the day after I screen tested and ran into them on our MGM Grand flight back to New York… ‘I’m gonna make him fall so hard for me, it’s gonna make his head spin.’ ??? I have so much dirt on her it would make her head spin but I’ve kept quiet.”
He continued, “The story of the meeting I had with Bob Evans imploring him allow me to choreograph the final sex scene in the photo below so I wouldn’t have to kiss Sharon is absolute legend. Wonder if I should write a book and tell the many, many disturbing, kinky and unprofessional tales about Sharon? That might be fun.”
However, the actor’s comment regarding Janice Dickinson is not exactly how she remembered it. In a statement to the Daily Mail, she refuted Baldwin’s claims, saying she has no recollection of said conversation with Stone. “As I recall Sharon never said that to me,” Dickinson told the outlet. “I am not sure why Billy Baldwin is bringing this up. I adore them both but that never happened.”
In her 2021 memoir The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone initially revealed the incident that happened while filming the 1993 Phillip Noyce-directed movie 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 onscreen chemistry,” but confirmed that she never did anything. Stone wrote, “I felt they could have just hired a co-star with talent, someone who could deliver a scene and remember his lines. I also felt that they could f— him themselves and leave me out of it.”
On the Louis Theroux Podcast, Stone further alleged that Evans insisted on casting Baldwin for the movie and “wouldn’t listen to the list of actors that I suggested for the part.”
She also brought up her time filming Basic Instinct, which was released the year prior, in 1992, noting that she “didn’t have to fuck Michael Douglas,” her co-star in that movie.
“Michael could come to work and just know how to hit those marks and do that line, and rehearse and show up,” the actress added. “Now all of a sudden I’m in the ‘I have to fuck people’ business.”
