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Inside Sharon Stone's troubled relationship with Billy Baldwin: Actress who claims she was pressured to have sex with her Sliver co-star wanted his brother Alec to 'put me over a table' and 'bit his tongue' - while he made a jibe about her lips
Sharon Stone and her former Sliver co-star Billy Baldwin are locked in a public feud after she claimed she had been pressured by film producer Robert Evans to sleep with the actor to improve their on-screen chemistry.
Billy, 61, unleashed a furious tirade against the American actress, 66, on X, formerly Twitter, yesterday in response to the bombshell claims she made on Monday on Louis Theroux's podcast.
But to those who worked on the set of 1993 thriller Sliver, the pair's scathing remarks about one another will hardly come as a surprise.
Director Phillip Noyce said the film - which still took a substantial $280million at the box office even if it fell below expectations - was a 'Hollywood nightmare', with 'an actress [Sharon] who I couldn't communicate with and who loathed her co-star and producer.'
According to Sliver screenwriter, Joe Eszterhas, Sharon had wanted Billy's older brother, Alec Baldwin, to play her young seducer.
Sharon Stone and her former Sliver co-star Billy Baldwin (pictured together in 1993's Sliver) are locked in a public feud after she claimed she had been pressured by film producer Robert Evans to sleep with the actor to improve their on-screen chemistry
Writing in his 2006 book, The Devil’s Guide to Hollywood, he quoted the actress saying: 'Alec can put me over a table anytime he wants.'
During production, the two co-stars quickly made their dislike for each other clear; after one love scene, Billy told a crew member of Sharon: 'Thin lips, okay breath', Entertainment Weekly reported in 1993.
Sharon, meanwhile, 'loathed' her on-screen lover so much she bit his tongue during a kiss on set, and would use mouthwash after kissing him, Joe claimed in his 2000 book American Rhapsody, reported the BBC.
The actress hit back in a statement at the time, saying: 'I think it's hilarious. I knew [Joe] was funny but I didn't think he could write comedy.'
Director Phillip revealed in the The Devil’s Guide to Hollywood how he ended up having to film many of the close-ups between his two leading characters with only one of them in the room at a time because 'they didn’t want to look at each other'.
He said: 'Billy Baldwin knew that Sharon Stone hadn’t wanted him in Sliver, and their relationship was always tense.' Meanwhile, Billy was quoted calling Sharon 'a paean to lipstick lesbianism.'
The director also described a meeting with Joe and Sharon to convince her to take the part of Carly Norris in Sliver, in which the actress apparently asked the screenwriter if he'd like a massage.
Phillip said he stopped talking because of the 'grotesque' sounds Joe was making while Sharon massaged him.
Billy (pictured with Sharon in the film), 61, unleashed a furious tirade against Sharon, 66, on X, formerly Twitter, yesterday in response to the bombshell claims she made on Monday on Louis Theroux's podcast
But to those who worked on the set of 1993 thriller Sliver, the pair's scathing remarks about one another will hardly come as a surprise. Pictured, Sharon, director Phillip Noyce and Billy on set in 1993
According to Sliver screenwriter, Joe Eszterhas, Sharon had wanted Billy's older brother, Alec Baldwin (pictured in 1993), to play her young seducer
She then agreed to take on the part, apparently shortly before filming was supposed to take place, but would soon ask for the script to be rewritten. However, the director kept to Joe's work.
For Phillip, the film came at a time when he was trying to give up smoking and wasn't 'all that stable myself', he was quoted explaining in The Devil’s Guide to Hollywood.
'On Sliver I just became so tired I couldn’t get off the floor. I had to have doctors constantly injecting me with vitamins...
'Every day of pressure on the Sliver set caused bad nicotine-induced panic attacks, so the chaos of the whole thing was not something I could blame on others.'
MailOnline has contacted representatives of Sharon Stone and Billy Baldwin for comment.
This week, Sharon finally revealed the identity of the producer who pressured her to have sex with a co-star for the first time - as well as the actor she was pushed to get intimate with in order to improve their on-screen chemistry.
The actress previously discussed the situation in her 2021 memoir - without disclosing identities - but has now divulged that the producer was Robert Evans, the actor was Alec Baldwin's brother Billy, and the film was Sliver in 1993.
Evans, who died in 2019, was also a producer on Chinatown and The Cotton Club, and headed production at Paramount for The Godfather, The Italian Job, True Grit and The Great Gatsby.
Sliver was Sharon's next movie after achieving huge success and megastardom in the previous year's hit Basic Instinct.
Speaking on Louis Theroux's podcast, she said: '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.'
She said former actor-turned-producer Evans summoned her from filming to his office to make the request for her to sleep with leading man William Baldwin - one of four acting brothers, and more widely known as Billy - off set.
She said: 'He called me to his office. 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.
'And we needed Billy to get better in the movie because that was the problem.
Sharon said former actor-turned-producer Robert Evans summoned her from filming to his office to make the request for her to sleep with leading man William Baldwin off set (the duo pictured in Sliver)
The actress, 66, previously discussed the situation in her 2021 memoir - without disclosing identities - but has now revealed the film was Sliver (pictured) with Billy Baldwin
Sliver (pictured) was Sharon's next movie after achieving huge success and megastardom in the previous year's hit Basic Instinct
'Now you think if I f*** him, he will become a fine actor? Nobody's that good in bed,' Sharon wrote of the situation in her memoir of her Sliver co-star (pictured)
Sharon said Sliver (pictured) still took a substantial $280million at the box office even if it fell below expectations
'And 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 a**e.'
Sharon said on hearing his demand she just thought how he hadn't listened to the list of actors that she had suggested for Baldwin's part of Zeke Hawkins, and was frustrated that the film's bosses expected her to go from co-starring with Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct to Baldwin.
She added: 'I didn't have to f**k 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**k people" business.'
Sharon said Sliver still took a substantial $280million at the box office even if it fell below expectations.
The original excerpt about the incident from her memoir, which is titled The Beauty of Living Twice, read: '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*** my costar so that we could have onscreen chemistry,' she recalled.
'Why, in his day, he made love to Ava Gardner onscreen and it was so sensational!
Billy, 61, took to X, formerly Twitter, to state: 'Not sure why Sharon Stone keep talking about me all these years later?'
Billy, who is now married to Chynna Phillips (pictured together), asked of Stone: 'Does she still have a crush on me or is she still hurt after all these years because I shunned her advances?'
Speaking on Louis Theroux's podcast, Sharon (pictured this month) said: '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'
Evans (pictured in 2018), who died in 2019, was also a producer on Chinatown and The Cotton Club, and headed production at Paramount for The Godfather, The Italian Job, True Grit and The Great Gatsby
'Now just the creepy thought of him in the same room with Ava Gardner gave me pause. Then I realized that she also had to put up with him and pretend that he was in any way interesting.'
Sharon said all she could think about was how the actor in question, whom they had insisted on hiring, 'couldn't get one whole scene out in the test.'
'Now you think if I f*** him, he will become a fine actor? Nobody's that good in bed,' she noted. '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.'
Hitting back at her claims, Billy took to X, formerly Twitter, to state: '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." ???
'I have so much dirt on her it would make her head spin but I've kept quiet.'
He continued: '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.'
However, supermodel Janice, 69, has now refuted his claims in an exclusive statement to DailyMail.com, in which she said she has no recollection of such conversation ever taking place.
‘As I recall Sharon never said that to me,' she said. 'I am not sure why Billy Baldwin is bringing this up. I adore them both but that never happened.’
Billy himself has since gone on to build a lengthy resume of film and TV credits including Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Gossip Girl.