With a Single Tweet, Billy Baldwin Takes No. 1 Spot as Worst Baldwin Brother (For Now)
"Is she still hurt after all these years because I shunned her advances?” Baldwin tweeted after Sharon Stone shared that a producer pressured her to have sex with Baldwin to help his "performance."
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Ah, Hollywood. Just when you think there’s little more to be said about its sex pests and sycophants, a celebrity tells a story from three decades ago on a podcast and just like that, another C-lister gets cemented as one, the other, or both.
On Tuesday, Stone shared some sordid behind the scenes gossip from the production of Sliver, the 1993 flop (and relic of a time when erotic thrillers were still watchable) in which she co-starred with Billy Baldwin (another relic!). During an episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast, Stone expounded upon an anecdote she vaguely detailed in her 2021 memoir about a producer who once pressured her to have sex with Baldwin to aid his performance in the film. To Theroux, Stone named the producer outright: former Paramount Pictures chief, Robert Evans.
“[Evans is] running around his office in sunglasses explaining that he slept with Ava Gardner and I should sleep with Billy Baldwin, because [then] his performance would get better,” Stone recalled. “If I could sleep with Billy, then we’d have chemistry on screen and save the movie.” She went on, saying that Evans had been implying that she was “the real problem…because I was so uptight, and not like a real actress who could just fuck him and get things back on track. The real problem was I was such a tightarse.”
Ah yes, if only Stone weren’t an Emmy and Golden Globe-winner but a real actress…perhaps then Evans’ movie wouldn’t have tanked.