Mexico City- Due to a better chemistry between them, Sharon Stone was pressured by a studio director to have sex with her co-star.
In her memoirs, “The Beauty of Living Twice”, the actress details part of the conversation she had with the executive, who preferred not to mention or give the name of the tape in question.
“(I thought) ‘You insisted on this actor, even though he couldn’t do an entire audition scene … Now do you think that if I sleep with him, he’ll become a good actor?’ Nobody is that good. in bed, “Stone wrote in his book.
“I felt that she could have hired someone talented who could make a scene and remember his lines. Also, that she could have sex with him and be left out. My job was to I went to act, I said, and that answer was not very popular. That’s why it was considered difficult. “
Not once, on several occasions the producers suggested him to sleep with his companions because it would be best for the film.
“Sex, not just on-screen sexualization, was to be expected from my business.
“A lot of people ask me what my days as a superstar were like, they were like this: playing ball or getting off the field, girl.”
Vanity Fair magazine published an excerpt from the actress’ autobiography, in which she also tells how she did not know that her private parts would be filmed and exposed in that scene from the film Low Instincts, when she seductively crosses her legs.
The Golden Globe winner remembers that the first time she saw how the shooting happened was at a screening, with the room full of agents and lawyers.
“This is how I saw the scene of my vagina for the first time, after a long period of time when they told me (on the set):” You can’t see anything, you just have to take off your underwear because it reflects light and it can be seen.
“Yes, there have been many opinions on this subject, but since I am the one with the vagina in question, I tell you: the rest of the points of view do not matter.
He says that after seeing the scene, he slapped director Paul Verhoeven and called his lawyer, Marty Singer.
“He told me I couldn’t release the film as it was … And according to Marty, according to Screen Actors Guild, my union, it wasn’t legal to have taken this photo of my dress. Well, that was my first thought.
“Then I thought of others. What if I were the director? What if I got that movie? What if I got it on purpose? Or by chance? What if “There were only a lot of things to think about. I knew the kind of movie I was making. For God’s sake, I fought for that role, and all the while, only this director defended me!” “
Variety magazine contacted director Verhoeven to verify the story, but one of his representatives refused to speak.
Once successful, Stone managed to include in his contracts the opportunity to decide who his colleagues would be, but it was just a matter of paper.
“Nobody cared. They chose who they wanted. To my dismay, sometimes. To the detriment of the film, at other times,” Stone says in the book.
In her memoirs, the actress also mentions how the industry has changed since the 80s and 90s, but that there is still much work to be done to achieve gender equality and, above all, to ensure safe spaces for women. .