Sharon Stone has publicly identified the late Robert Evans as the producer who allegedly encouraged her to sleep with “Sliver” co-star Billy Baldwin in order to “save the movie.”
The Oscar-nominated “Casino” star, 66, named the native New Yorker on the “Louis Theroux Podcast” Tuesday, after having referenced the alleged incident, and others like it, in her 2021 memoir, “The Beauty of Living Twice.”
“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 claimed of Evans, who died in 2019 at the age of 89. “We needed Billy to get better in the movie, because that was the problem.”
“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,” Stone said of Evans’ alleged reasoning.
Stone noted she “didn’t have to f–k Michael Douglas,” alongside whom she starred in 1992’s “Basic Instinct,” another erotic thriller.
“Michael could come to work and just 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 f–k people’ business,” added Stone, who said Evans “wouldn’t listen to the list of actors [she] suggested for the part.”
“Sliver,” which hit theaters in 1993, was critically panned. It currently holds a measly 18% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics’ consensus describing it as “an absurd erotic thriller with technobabble [that] posits prime Sharon Stone as a professional book nerd.”
Evans first produced “Chinatown,” for which he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. His producing credits also include “Marathon Man,” “Urban Cowboy,” “The Out-of-Towners,” and “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.”
