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Joy Behar is weighing in on Billy Baldwin’s current beef with Sharon Stone.
“People crave relevancy,” Behar, 81, stated throughout the Thursday, March 14, episode of The View. “That threat that he made — ‘I’m gonna bring out all this dirt about Sharon’ — she must’ve been like, ‘Yeah, bring it out, because I haven’t been in the public eye for awhile, so here it goes!’ … Ego problems with actors? What a concept!”
The drama started when Stone, 66, claimed throughout a Tuesday, March 12, look on “The Louis Theroux Podcast” that the late producer Robert Evans pushed her to sleep with Baldwin, 61, to enhance his efficiency of their 1993 movie, Sliver.
“We needed Billy to get better in the movie, because that was the problem,” she claimed, including that Evans thought she and Baldwin “would have chemistry on screen” in the event that they slept collectively in actual life.
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Baldwin hit again at Stone through X later that day, questioning whether or not the actress was “talking about me all these years later” as a result of she “still [has] a crush on me” or “because I shunned her advances.”
The actor additionally claimed to have “so much dirt” on Stone that it “would make her head spin” and supplied his personal account of a dialog with Evans, who died at age 89 in 2019.
“The story of the meeting I had with Bob Evans imploring him [to] allow me to choreograph the final sex scene in the photo below so I wouldn’t have to kiss Sharon is absolute legend,” he wrote alongside a nonetheless from Sliver. “Wonder if I should write a book and tell the many, many disturbing, kinky and unprofessional tales about Sharon? That might be fun.”
Behar expressed confusion with the entire state of affairs on Thursday, noting that by Evans’ alleged logic, stars of The Godfather would “have to behead a horse” so as to successfully painting mobsters.
“It doesn’t make sense! It’s called acting,” she quipped.
Behar’s fellow panelists additionally questioned Stone’s choice to rehash the story. Whoopi Goldberg questioned why Stone selected to “bring it up anyway” whereas Sunny Hostin requested, “Sharon, are you still upset 30 years later?”
Hostin, 55, then clarified that she thought Baldwin “lashed out with his response.”
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Sara Haines agreed that Baldwin’s tweet was “snarky and reactive” however maintained that Stone didn’t have to emphasise that Baldwin “was the problem” with the movie.
Stone beforehand wrote concerning the alleged dialog with the Sliver producer in her 2021 memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, though she didn’t establish Roberts or Baldwin by identify on the time.
“You guys insisted on this actor when he couldn’t get one whole scene out in the test. Now you think if I f–k him, he will become a fine actor? Nobody’s that good in bed,” she wrote. “I felt they could have just hired a costar with talent, someone who could deliver a scene and remember his lines.”
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