63-year-old actress Sharon Stone has repeatedly spoken about the experienced sexual harassment and harassment from the directors on the set. She paid attention to this topic in her memoirs, which will go on sale on March 30. Edition Vanity Fair has published an excerpt from the book of the actress, which is just about such episodes.
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For example, Stone recalls how one producer suggested that she sleep with a male partner in order to improve the “chemistry” between their characters on the screen.
You guys insisted on this actor when he couldn’t give out a single scene on the audition. Now you think that if I fuck him, he will immediately become a great actor? No one can be so good in bed! If only they had hired a talented actor who could play the scene and remember their lines! Yes, they can fuck him themselves and leave me alone. It was my job to play, so I said
– this is how Stone commented on that case in her autobiography.
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In the book, the actress also recalls her former manager at the beginning of her career, who once told her that she did not look like a woman who “wants to be fucked,” and therefore no one would call her to act. The actress also describes an episode with one director, who invited her to sit on his lap in order to get the role (Stone had previously recalled this incident in an interview).
Sharon also paid attention to, perhaps, the most famous and sensational film in her career – Paul Verhoeven’s erotic thriller “Basic Instinct”. The scene of the interrogation of Stone’s heroine became a cult scene in the film, during which she crosses her legs, being at that moment without underwear.
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Sharon claims that the film crew, led by the director, went for a trick to convince her to film without underwear.
They told me: “We will not see anything. You just need to take off your panties, as white reflects the light, so in the frame you can immediately see that you are wearing panties,
– wrote Sharon.
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However, at the first screening of the film at the studio, the actress was in for a shock. Her genitals were perfectly visible on the screen. Stone recalls that after the screening, she slapped Verhoeven and was even determined to ban the release of the film. But then Sharon considered the situation.
I needed to make a decision. I called my lawyer Marty Singer. Marty told me that they could not release this film as it was, that I could get an injunction. First, it gave the movie an X rating at the time. Remember, this was 1992, not like now when we see erect penises on Netflix. And as Marty said, according to Screen Actors Guild rules, it was illegal to film me that way. This was my first thought. Then I thought a little more. What if I was the director? What if I took this shot? What if I got it on purpose? Or by chance? What if he just existed? In general, there was something to think about.
I knew what movie I was shooting. I fought so hard for this role, and all this time only this director stood up for me. I needed to find a way to become objective. But I had a choice. I thought and thought, and in the end I decided to resolve this scene in the film. Why? Because it was right for the film and for the character, so in the end I did it,
– Sharon shared her memories.
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