“We should think a lot more about what women can do,” Sharon Stone told a packed ballroom Tuesday in NYC, speaking passionately about her early career; women in film; and Basic Instinct, the 1992 project that was ground breaking and traumatizing for actor.
Stone was a small-town girl who arrived in New York an aspiring actress “with my suitcase and 50 dollars,” she told the 43rd annual Muse Awards put on by New York Women in Film & Television. “I walked up and down the streets and I checked every pay phone for change that was left in so that I could possibly take the subway instead of walking all the way back to Elizabeth and Houston, where I lived in a fifth-floor walkup above a bakery in a studio apartment with my friend and … lots and lots of cockroaches.” “It was very exciting and really hard,” not least because, back then, “there were four members of Women in Film.
Four — that’s not a joke.” It was stressful. “When I would go to the set there would be 300 men, and my hair and makeup and dressers were men, when I was doing sex scenes.
It was all men and me. And sometimes I could ask the wardrobe supervisor, who may be woman, if she wouldn’t mind staying on set while I did that.
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