Sharon Stone Names Producer Who Told Her to Sleep withSliverCostar Billy Baldwin, to Make His Performance 'Better'

Mar. 15, 2025

Sharon Stoneis opening up about feeling pressured to have sex withSlivercostarBilly Baldwin, to help his “performance” in the film.

After previously discussing the alleged incident between herself and a producer in her 2021 memoirThe Beauty of Living Twice, Stone, 66, has named him as the lateRobert Evans, who was a producer on her 1993 thrillerSliver.(Evans died in 2019, at age 89.)

The actress said on Tuesday’s episode of Spotify’sLouis Theroux Podcastthat she “should’ve been on set” but was called into Evans' office to discuss her chemistry with Baldwin, 61.

“He’s running around his office in his sunglasses, explaining to me that he slept withAva Gardnerand I should sleep with Billy Baldwin, because if I slept with Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin’s performance would get better,” Stone recalled of their alleged conversation. “And we needed Billy to get better in the movie, because that was the problem.”

A representative for Baldwin did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment Tuesday.

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Billy Baldwin and Sharon Stone inSliver(1993).Everett

Everett

According to Stone, Evans' logic was, “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 f— him and get things back on track. And the real problem is that I was such a tight ass,” theTotal Recallactress said.

From L: Billy Baldwin and Sharon Stone inSliver(1993); Robert Evans on May 16, 2007, in Beverly Hills, California.Everett,  E. Charbonneau/WireImage

Everett,  E. Charbonneau/WireImage

Stone further alleged on the podcast that Evans “wouldn’t listen to the list of actors that I suggested for the part,” and insisted on casting Baldwin instead.

Of her costar in the previous year’sBasic Instinct, she said, “I didn’t have to f—Michael Douglas. 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— people’ business.”

Sharon Stone in New York City on Dec. 14, 2023.Gregory Pace/Shutterstock

Gregory Pace/Shutterstock

As she wrote in the book, “I had actor approval in my contract. No one cared. They cast who they wanted. To my dismay, sometimes. To the detriment of the picture, sometimes.”

TheCasinostar recalled one producer (now named as Evans) who brought her into his office, and “explained to mewhy I should f— my costarso that we could have onscreen chemistry.”

“You guys insisted on this actor when he couldn’t get one whole scene out in the test,” Stone said she remembered thinking at the time. “Now you think if I f— him, he will become a fine actor? Nobody’s that good in bed.”

“I felt they could have just hired a costar with talent, someone who could deliver a scene and remember his lines,” she continued. “It was my job to act and I said no.”

source: people.com