Billy Baldwin has reacted in a very ungentlemanly way to Sharon Stone's claim that producer Robert Evans tried to force her to have sex with the actor during the filming of Sliver in 1993 in order to increase the chemistry between their characters.
“I don’t know why Sharon Stone continues to talk about me all these years later?” the actor wrote on X—former Twitter. “Is she still in love with me or is she still hurt after all these years because I avoided her advances? ... I have so much dirt on her that her head would spin, but I kept silent. I wonder if I should write a book and tell lots of weird and unprofessional stories about Sharon? It can be fun,” he noted.
The row began this week when Stone revealed on Louis Theroux's podcast that Evans told her to sleep with Baldwin, her co-star, in hopes of improving his on-screen performance in the thriller.
As NYP notes, the quarrel between Sharon Stone and Billy Baldwin has been brewing for a long time. During the filming of the thriller, the couple quickly developed an antipathy towards each other. “Thin lips, normal breathing,” Baldwin reportedly said after filming a love scene with the Basic Instinct star.
“He’s a brat,” Stone complained, according to Sliver screenwriter Joe Eszterhas in his book American Rhapsody. “Give me a man. Give me Alexa."
Eszterhas claimed that Stone "wiped her mouth after the kiss or rinsed it with mouthwash." She bit Bill's tongue during the kiss." However, he wrote also that Stone badly wanted Baldwin to fall in love with her.
Stone then released a statement saying, “I think it’s fun. I knew [Joe] was funny, but I didn't think he could write a comedy."
She cleared the air in a 2021 New Yorker interview, insisting that Baldwin misinterpreted her innocent desire to rehearse as sexual harassment.
But Eszterhas quoted Sliver director Phillip Noyce in his 2007 book The Devil's Guide to Hollywood saying Stone was furious that Baldwin would star in the film. "Billy Baldwin knew that Sharon Stone didn't want him to be in Sliver, and their relationship was always strained," Noyce said. "I ended up having to film many of their close-ups with only one of them in the room because they didn't want to look at each other."
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