Mexico City- With the argument of getting better chemistry between them, Sharon Stone was pressured by the director of a studio to have sex with her co-star.
In her memoir, “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 guys insisted on this actor, even though he couldn’t do a whole scene in the rehearsal … Now do you think that if I go to sleep with him, he will become a good actor? “No one is so good in bed,” Stone wrote in his book.
“I felt like they could have hired someone talented, that I could do a scene and remember his lines. Also that they could have sex with him and leave me out of that. My job was to act, I said. , and this response was not very popular, so it was considered difficult. “
It wasn’t a single time, on several occasions the producers suggested he go to bed with his teammates because it would be best for the tape.
“Sex, not just on-screen sexualization, was expected of my business.
“A lot of people ask me what my days as a superstar were like. They were like this: play ball or jump field, girl.”
Vanity Fair magazine published an excerpt from the actress’ autobiography, in which she also explains how she did not know that her private parts would be filmed and exposed in that scene from the film Low Instincts when she crosses her legs in a way seductive.
The Golden Globe winner recalls that the first time she saw how the dam had looked was in a screening, with the room full of agents and lawyers.
“That’s how I saw the scene in my vagina for the first time, after a long time in what I was told (on set):‘ You don’t see anything, we just need you to take off your underwear so that the white reflects light and they get to see.
“Yes, there have been many opinions on this subject, but as I am the one in the vagina in question, I tell them: the rest of the points of view do not matter.
He relates that after seeing the scene he slapped director Paul Verhoeven and called his lawyer Marty Singer.
“He told me they couldn’t release the film the way it was … And, according to Marty, according to the Screen Actors Guild, my union, it wasn’t legal for them to have made this take on my costume. ‘Wow,’ Well, that was my first thought.
“Then I thought a little more. What if I were the director? What if I had gotten that prey? What if I had gotten it on purpose? Or by accident? What if it just existed? There were a lot of things to think about. I knew what kind of film I was making. For God’s sake, I fought for this role, and all this time, only this director defended me! “
Variety magazine contacted director Verhoeven to corroborate the story, but one of its representatives declined to speak.
Once he had achieved success, Stone was able to include in his contracts the possibility of deciding who his co-stars would be, but it was only a matter of paper.
“No one cared. They chose who they wanted. To my dismay, sometimes. To the detriment of the film, at others,” Stone expresses 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 a lot of work to be done to achieve gender equity and, most importantly, ensure safe spaces for women.