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Sharon Stone names Hollywood hunk she was pressured to have sex with for movie

Sharon Stone has claimed that she was asked to sleep with her co-star Billy Baldwin on the set of 1993 film Sliver by a famous producer, who she has now named

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Sharon Stone has spoke out about her career(Image: Getty Images for Housing Works)

Sharon Stone has named the producer who she says asked her to sleep with her co-star Billy Baldwin to make their film more successful.

In her 2021 memoir, Hollywood star Stone hinted at this pressured situation but didn't reveal the names of the people involved. Now, the award-winning actress has shared who she claims urged her to get close with her co-star.

Stone alleged that Robert Evans, a producer who passed away in 2019, suggested that if she slept with Baldwin during the filming of the 1993 movie Sliver, it would improve their on-screen "chemistry". According to Stone, Evans, who also produced Chinatown and The Cotton Club and worked on big films like The Godfather, The Italian Job, True Grit and The Great Gatsby, took her aside on set to talk about the tension between her and Baldwin.

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Stone got real on Louis Theroux's podcast and shared: "They expected me to bring home another giant smash hit and they gave me casting approval and they gave me all these approvals, but then when it came time for me to do it they told me it was a vanity deal and I couldn't have my approvals. Then they started to try to blame me for their mistakes, and they made terrible mistakes in the way that they hired directors and cast," reports the Mirror.

[William Baldwin, Sharon Stone in Sliver]

Sharon Stone claims she was encouraged to have sex with her co-star Billy Baldwin(Image: Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)

Referring to her co-star Billy Baldwin, Stone didn't hold back as she revealed that he "couldn't get one whole scene out in the test". Further expressing her upset, Stone praised her Basic Instinct co-star Michael Douglas while comparing him to Baldwin stating: "I didn't have to f*** Michael Douglas.

"Michael could come to work and 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."

Finally, she mentioned being told: "If I could sleep with Billy then we'd have chemistry on screen, and if I would just have sex with him then that would save the movie, and 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 a**e."

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Sharon Stone made a dig at Billy Baldwin's acting talent(Image: Getty Images)

In a chat with Louis Theroux, she expressed her frustration about not being able to choose her co-star. She said: "I felt they could have just hired a costar with talent, someone who could deliver a scene and remember his lines.

"I also felt they could f*** him themselves and leave me out of it. It was my job to act and I said so. This was not a popular response. I was considered difficult."

Stone also shared that the film didn't do as well as expected at the box office, earning $280million but still falling short of expectations.

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