Actor William Baldwin is feuding with a former movie co-star, more than 30 years later.
Sharon Stone said in a new interview on “The Louis Theroux Podcast” that former Paramount Pictures chief Robert Evans allegedly pressured her to have sex with Baldwin to improve their chemistry in their 1993 movie “Sliver.” Evans, who died in 2019, produced the sexy thriller that flopped at the box office, according to Deadline.
“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 said. “And we needed Billy to get better in the movie, because that was the problem.”
Stone said she was offended by the suggestion because she didn’t have the same problem with Michael Douglas, her co-star in “Basic Instinct” a year earlier.
“I didn’t have to f— Michael Douglas. Michael could come to work and know how to hit those marks, and do that line, and rehearse and show up,” she said. “Now all of a sudden I’m in the ‘I have to f— people’ business.”
Actress Sharon Stone, center, is surrounded by media as she arrives at the premiere of her movie “Sliver” on May 19, 1993. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)The Associated Press
Stone, 66, told the same story in her 2021 memoir, “The Beauty of Living Twice,” but did not name Evans at the time, according to People magazine.
Baldwin, 61, responded to Stone’s allegations on X (formerly Twitter) Tuesday.
“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 tweeted with a photo showing a racy scene from the movie “Sliver.”
“I have so much dirt on her it would make her head spin but I’ve kept quiet,” Baldwin 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.”
Stone is an Oscar-nominated actress whose credits include “Casino,” “Sliver,” “Basic Instinct,” “The Quick and the Dead,” “Total Recall,” “The Practice” and “Bay City Blues.” She won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in “Casino.”
Baldwin, who won Most Desirable Male at the 1994 MTV Movie Awards for his performance in “Sliver,” has appeared in nearly 100 movies and TV shows, including “Backdraft,” “A Pyromaniac’s Love Story,” “Hawaii Five-0,” “Dirty Sexy Money,” “The Purge,” “MacGyver,” and “Gossip Girl.”
He is one of the four famous Baldwin brothers, along with actors Daniel, Stephen and Alec Baldwin. Their late mother Carol M. Baldwin raised millions for breast cancer research in Central New York, and other family members still live in the Syracuse area.
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