After nearly 40 years in Showbiz – actress Sharon Stone has ‘seen it all’ in Hollywood.
It’s quite ironic when you think about it—anyone who has watched the film “Basic Instinct” has basically seen all of Sharon Stone… ahem… cough, cough!
It’s conceivable that if anyone has, Sharon Stone has encountered, heard about, witnessed firsthand, and survived incidents of sexual harassment.
As mentioned earlier, many of us likely recall Stone’s captivating and provocative performance alongside Michael Douglas in the 1992 film ‘Basic Instinct’.
Who could forget the infamous leg-crossing scene in which her… (rhymes with ‘Wussy’) was exposed. Oh Google it, you perv.
Btw, Sharon claims that was filmed without her knowledge.
It does raise some doubts, especially considering she knew she wasn’t wearing any undergarments at the time, and the camera angle was just right. But let’s not dwell on it. If you can forget about it, good luck to you.
You might not have seen when Lee Cowan on CBS Sunday interviewed Stone, who was 59 at the time, to delve into her experiences in Hollywood, especially in light of the #metoo movement and the revelations about Hollywood director Harvey Weinstein’s misconduct.
‘I don’t know how to ask this in a delicate way, but were you ever in a position like that, that you felt that you were uncomfortable?’ Cowan asked Stone in the clip..
The question caused Stone to erupt in laughter, while a nervous Cowan tentatively asked: ”You’re laughing, but I don’t know if that’s a nervous laugh, or an Are-you-kidding-me-of-course-I-was laugh?”
Stone gathered herself and looked at Cowan, and responded: ‘Oh, I’ve been in this business for 40 years, Lee.’
‘Can you imagine the business I stepped into then? Looking like I look, from Nowhere, Pennsylvania? I didn’t come here with any protection. I’ve seen it all.’
Anticipating such interviews becomes increasingly feasible as more victims of sexual harassment in Hollywood join the #MeToo movement and more individuals with predatory behavior, such as Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey, face public exposure.
More and more voices rally around #TimesUp initiative to speak out against sexual misconduct.
Actress Sharon Stone also also spoke about her medical crisis over a decade ago. A crisis which almost cost the actress her life.
‘There was about a five percent chance of me living,’ said Stone.
‘Did you have to sort of start over and relearn all of this?’ asked Cowan.
‘Yes, everything, everything. My whole life was wiped out.’
Stone then added: ‘Others aren’t that interested in a broken person.’
CBS’ Cowan responded by asking: ‘So you just felt alone in a lot of ways?’
‘I was alone,’ said Stone.
Stone said that when she did get work, things were also a bit off around that time.
‘I’m sure I seemed peculiar coming through this all these years, and I didn’t want to tell everybody what was happening because, you know, this is not a forgiving environment,’ explained the actress.
But Sharon Stone seems to have made it through the years well. Nowadays, she juggles her career with raising a family, nurturing three sons as a single mother.
‘I just was not the girl who was ever told that a man would define me. It was, that if I wanted to have a man in my life, it would be for partnership,’ said Stone.
‘It wouldn’t be an arrangement; it would be an actual relationship. And since those are pretty hard to come by.’
Stone took on the lead role in “Mosaic” on HBO, which debuted in January. In the Steven Soderbergh mystery, she portrays the character Olivia Lake, an author, following the investigation into the murder of a children’s book author.
About the role Stone said: ‘We were raised to accommodate men, particularly in my generation.’
‘And women so often lose their own identify to the identity of the men that they’re with. They even change the way they dress and what they do to fit the men that they’re with.’
‘We’re starting to acknowledge our own gifts as women and not think that we have to behave as men in order to be empowered or powerful or valuable.’
Amen! Well said!
It’s hard to imagine that ‘Basic Instinct’ is over 25 years old. I guess those were the days. Now it’s time for Hollywood pervs like Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey to pay their dues. #TimesUp