Sharon Stone was allegedly told to have sex with “Sliver” co-star Billy Baldwin in order to save the movie.
Sharon Stone said on the latest episode of “The Louis Theroux Podcast” that producer Robert Evans advised her to have sex with co-star Billy Baldwin in order to save their film, “Sliver.” The 1993 thriller from director Phillip Noyce starred Stone as a book editor who moves into an exclusive New York City apartment building and discovers its residents harbor dark secrets. Evans allegedly wanted Stone and Baldwin to have better “chemistry on screen” because it would “save the movie.”
“He is 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,” Stone remembered about one meeting with Evans. “And we needed Billy to get better in the movie because that was the problem. If I could sleep with Billy then we’d have chemistry on screen, and if I would just have sex with him then that would save the movie.”
“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,” Stone continued about Evans’ alleged viewpoint. “The real problem was I was such a tight ass.”
Variety has reached out to Billy Baldwin’s representative for comment. The actor posted on X (formerly Twitter) a reaction to Stone’s podcast appearance and wrote: “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?…I have so much dirt on her it would make her head spin but I’ve kept quiet.
