Producer Robert Evans asked me to have sex with Sliver’s Billy Baldwin
Three years after admitting that she was once encouraged by a producer to have sex with her co-star, Sharon Stone has finally revealed the pair’s identities.
The “Basic Instinct” actress told Louis Theroux on his podcast that the filthy producer was one-time Paramount head honcho Robert Evans and the actor was William “Billy” Baldwin, brother of Alec Baldwin.
The pervy request to make Baldwin’s screen performance “better,” Stone claimed, came during shooting of “Sliver” in 1993.
Evans, who started out in Hollywood as an actor, produced such classic films as “Barefoot in the Park,” “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Love Story” and “The Godfather.”
He was also a notorious womanizer who was linked over the years to Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner and Lana Turner.
“He called me to his office,” Stone, now 66, said of Evans. “He had these very low seventies, eighties 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.”
In the sexually charged thriller, Stone played a model/escort and Baldwin was a video game designer named Zeke who lived in her New York apartment building. The pair begin sleeping together.
The actress, who’d had a huge hit with “Basic Instinct” in 1992, said that “Sliver” production was plagued with problems — and she became Evans’ scapegoat.
“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,” Stone alleged of the film directed by Phillip Noyce.
“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—k him and get things back on track. The real problem was I was such a tight ass.”
The Oscar nominee concluded: “Now all of a sudden I’m in the I-have-to-f–k-people business.”
Stone previously described the unseemly incident in her 2021 memoir “The Beauty of Living Twice,” but kept the names of her colleagues anonymous.
She cryptically wrote at the time, “I had a producer bring me to his office, where he had malted milk balls in a little milk-carton-type container under his arm with the spout open.”
“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—k my costar so that we could have onscreen chemistry.”
Baldwin, now 61, received some dubious accolades for his performance: The MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Male and a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actor.
Stone soon went on to received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in 1996 for her turn in Martin Scorsese’s “Casino.”
Evans, who wrote a popular 1994 memoir about his life in Hollywood called “The Kid Stays in the Picture,” took the reins at Paramount in the 1960s when the studio was struggling and turned it into a hit machine.
The producer was married seven times — including to Catherine Oxenberg of “Dynasty” and “Love Story” actress Ali MacGraw.
He died in 2019 at age 89.
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