What we know about Sharon Stone and Billy Baldwin's row

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Billy Baldwin has taken a swipe at Sharon Stone after she shared her experience making 1993 thriller Silver, and named producer Robert Evans as the person who allegedly told her to have sex with her co-star to improve his acting.

Silver saw Baldwin and Stone portray Zeke Hawkins and Carly Norris, respectively. The erotic thriller followed Carly as she moved into a New York City apartment and then discovered the dark secrets that the residents held.

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Baldwin and Stone famously hated starring in the film together, and their feud is now being rekindled in the public eye. Stone's naming of Evans has led to a new online row between them, here is everything that we know about it.

What has Sharon Stone said?

In her 2021 memoir The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone first shared that she was once asked to get intimate with a co-star for one of her films, though she did not name the producer who told her to do so or the actor she was told to sleep with at the time.

Stone wrote in her book: "He walked back and forth in his office with the balls falling out of the spout and rolling all over the wood floor as he explained to me why I should f*** my co-star so that we could have on-screen chemistry.

"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 co-star with talent, someone who could deliver a scene and remember his lines."

While Stone had chosen not to publicly name anyone at the time this changed when she appeared on the Louis Theroux podcast which was released on Tuesday, 12 March. In it, Stone named Evans as the producer who had tried to pressure her into sleeping with Baldwin.

Stone told Theroux: "He called me to his office. He had these very low ’70s, ’80s couches, so I’m essentially sitting on the floor, when I should have been on set.

"And he’s running around his office in sunglasses explaining to me that he slept with Ava Gardner and I should sleep with Billy Baldwin, because if I slept with Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin’s performance would get better, and we needed Billy to get better in the movie because that was the problem."

The Basic Instinct star went on to explain: "The real problem with 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. The real problem was I was such a tight arse."

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It was said that Stone had wanted to act opposite someone else, and one of her original choices for the film was Michael Douglas. She went on to say that had Douglas been cast in the film she wouldn't have had to have the conversation with Evans.

She explained: "I didn’t have to f*** Michael Douglas. Now all of a sudden I’m in the ‘I have to f*** people’ business. Michael could come to work and know how to hit those marks, and do that line, and rehearse and show up."

How did Billy Baldwin react to Sharon Stone's comments?

Baldwin seemed to take offence to Stone's remarks, taking to social media to hit back at the claims she made with a few choice remarks of his own.

He wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: "Not sure why Sharon Stone keep talking about me all these years later? Does she still have a crush on me or is she still hurt after all these years because I shunned her advances?

"Did she say to her gal pal Janice Dickinson the day after I screen tested and ran into them on our MGM Grand flight back to New York… 'I'm gonna make him fall so hard for me, it's gonna make his head spin'???"

Baldwin went on: "I have so much dirt on her it would make her head spin but I've kept quiet.

"The story of the meeting I had with Bob Evans imploring him allow me to choreograph the final sex scene in the photo below so I wouldn't have to kiss Sharon is absolute legend.

"Wonder if I should write a book and tell the many, many disturbing, kinky and unprofessional tales about Sharon? That might be fun."

Who was Robert Evans?

Evans was the head of Paramount Pictures between 1966 and 1974, and his credits include The Godfather, Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby. Evans died in 2019 at the age of 89.

During his lifetime Evans was known for his outlandish lifestyle, he was married seven times but was also a notorious lothario. The producer was said to sleep around so much that he didn't know the names of the women he was with to the point where his housekeeper would give him a note with the name of the person beside him alongside breakfast.

So infamous was his love life that Basic Instinct screenwriter Joe Eszterhas said in his memoir, per the New Yorker, that after the producer had seen the film he'd said "Dammit, this c***sucker knows more about p**** than I do", to which the writer said: "I don’t. No one will ever know as much as Evans."

Following his success at Paramount Pictures, in a time when Hollywood was more intent on celebrating men and objectifying women, he went on to become a producer in his own right. He was never able to regain the same level of success, though he did produce two films based on Eszterhas' scripts: Silver and Jade in 1993 and 1995, respectively.

Evans shared details of his lavish life in his memoir The Kid Stays in the Picture, and said of being a producer: "I’ve been shot down, bloodied, trampled, accused, disgraced, threatened, betrayed, scandalised, maligned. Tough? Sure, but I ain’t complaining! Nothin’ comes easy."