Sharon Stone is telling all about her tumultuous relationship with Michael Douglas, revealing the two reportedly had tension even before they became co-stars in “Basic Instinct.”
“Michael Douglas did not want to put his bare ass out on the screen with an unknown,” Stone said in an interview with Business Insider published last week. “And I understood that. He wouldn’t even test with me. But that was also for a different reason; we had an argument prior to that.”
Stone said the argument began during a Cannes Film Festival when the two were sitting with a group and Douglas “was talking about someone and their kids.”
“I really, really knew this person he was talking about. So I said something and he responded to me, saying, ‘What the fuck do you know?’” Stone recalled.
“It was in regard to a father-child relationship. Clearly, it triggered him,” she said.
“So he screams this at me across a whole group of people. And I’m not the person who goes, ‘Oh, excuse me, superstar,’” the actor said. “I pushed back my chair and said to him, ‘Let’s step outside.’ That’s how we first met.”
The two indeed took things outside, according to Stone’s account. She said she “explained to him what the fuck I knew about this family he was speaking about, and that I was best friends with the children and the parent.”
The two apparently parted ways “amicably,” but “I wouldn’t say as best friends.”
“So, fast forward to casting ‘Basic Instinct,’ I don’t think he wanted me to be his co-star,” she said. Stone said their initial encounter worked well for the relationship in the movie, because she “was not rattled if he yelled at me.”
“That worked very well in our dynamic,” the “Casino” star shared. “Eventually, we became the greatest of friends, to this day. I admire him tremendously.”
Allen Burry, a representative for Douglas, disputed parts of Stone’s story when asked for comment.
Burry told People magazine on Monday that Douglas was “very surprised” by her recollection, as the actor “doesn’t remember any argument in that timeframe.”
“He actually only remembers seeing and meeting Sharon for the first time when he saw [director] Paul Verhoeven’s screen test of her for ‘Basic Instinct’ and [Michael] said, ‘Absolutely, she’s the one,’” Burry shared.
He added that the two were at Cannes and spent time together, but they’d already completed “Basic Instinct” by then.
“And by the time they’d done the movie, they were friends,” he continued.
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Reps for Sharon Stone didn’t immediately respond to a HuffPost request for comment.
