She’s dropped some fascinating bombshells in her newly published book, and also shared an enlightening passage about Hollywood film production.
In her new memoir The Beauty Of Living Twice, actress Sharon Stone recounts the making of her 90s western The Quick And The Dead, and what it took for her to convince the studio behind the film to cast a then 21-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio.
The Oscar nominee, 63, served both as star and co-producer of the film, and went as far as paying the rising star’s salary herself when TriStar Pictures balked.
In her new memoir The Beauty Of Living Twice: Sharon Stone recounts the making of her 90s western The Quick And The Dead, and what it took for her to convince the studio behind the film to cast a then 21-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio
In her memoir, published Tuesday, Sharon writes:
‘This kid named Leonardo DiCaprio was the only one who nailed the audition. In my opinion he was the only one who came in and cried, begging his father to love him as he died in the scene.
Stone continued to say that TriStar was hesitant, and asked asked her, ‘”Why an unknown, Sharon, why are you always shooting yourself in the foot?”
In her memoir, published Tuesday, Sharon writes: ‘The studio said if I wanted him so much, I could pay him out of my own salary. So I did.’
‘The studio said if I wanted him so much, I could pay him out of my own salary,’ she concluded. ‘So I did.’
It should be noted that The Quick And The Dead came out in 1995, which was two years before box office behemoth Titanic – the film that cemented DiCaprio as a legendary Hollywood megastar.
In the same excerpt of her memoir, Sharon recalled how she also had to go to bat for director Sam Raimi for the western, a gifted filmmaker who at the time was mainly known for gory horror fare like 1981’s cult classic The Evil Dead.
In an excerpt of her memoir: Sharon recalled how she also had to go to bat for director Sam Raimi for the western, a gifted filmmaker who at the time was mainly known for horror fare
As she put it, producing studio TriStar thought Raimi, who went on to direct the first blockbuster Spider-Man franchise a few years later, was a ‘D-movie director.’
‘Getting a producer credit as an actress is often thought of in my business as a “vanity deal,” meaning they pay you for the job but shut the f*** up and stay out of the way,’ the Casino actress wrote.
‘I won’t accept a vanity deal and let them know that upfront. This is illegal, I say, and I like to work within the law. That gets a lot of silence and not a lot of joy on the other end.’
The plot of the film, which costarred Gene Hackman and Russell Crowe, strangely followed a similar chain of events – Stone portrayed a new female gunslinger in town who butt heads with the local leader.
The plot of the film, which costarred Gene Hackman and Russell Crowe, strangely followed a similar chain of events: Stone portrayed a gunslinger who butt heads with the local leader
The recollection comes as Stone recently discussed a different and more troubling memory, involving plastic surgery.
She said that in 2001, when she went under the knife to have benign tumors removed, her doctor increased her bust by a full cup-size without her consent.
She woke to discover her doctor added the surgical enhancement because he ‘thought that I would look better’.
She said to The Times: ‘When I was un-bandaged, I discovered that I had a full cup-size bigger breasts, ones that he said, ‘go better with your hip size’.
‘He had changed my body without my knowledge or consent.’
Sharon added that her doctor thought she would look ‘better with bigger, “better” boobs.
Shocking: Sharon recently revealed her surgeon increased her bust by a full cup-size without her consent because he ‘thought that I would look better’