If you’re really interested in seeing Sharon Stone all kinds of tastefully naked, go here to see the NSFW photos from her Harper’s Bazaar shoot. I think she really does have a great body, still, but she’s definitely being helped along with some Photoshop. Stone sat down for an interview with Bazaar as well and… I’m not feeling it. I’m a Stone Defender too, I never really thought she was “crazy,” I just thought she was sort of a famewhoring brag-happy actress, you know? Sharon Stone is the first one to tell you how great Sharon Stone is. And there’s nothing wrong with that… until she throws Law & Order: SVU under the bus. TOO FAR. Some highlights:
Working on Law & Order: SVU for a multi-episode arc five years ago: “That was humiliating. Having worked with the finest people in the industry, I was like, ‘Wow, I’m really at the back of the line here. I’m wearing L’eggs panty hose, and in makeup they start out by putting this white primer on my face.’ I’m like, ‘This is so bad. What did I do to deserve this?’ [Then] I thought, ‘You know what? I got thrown off the bullet train, and now I’m going to have to crawl up a hill of broken glass, get back on the train that’s going a million miles an hour, and work my way from the cattle car up. That’s just the way it is, so I’d better get humble and shut the f–k up and do the job. Because if I can’t do this job, I’m certainly not going to be able to do anything else.’ ”
Her life after her cerebral hemorrhage: “It took two years for my body just to absorb all the internal bleeding I had. It almost feels like my entire DNA changed. My brain isn’t sitting where it used to, my body type changed, and even my food allergies are different. I became more emotionally intelligent. I chose to work very hard to open up other parts of my mind. Now I’m stronger. And I can be abrasively direct. That scares people, but I think that’s not my problem. It’s like, I have brain damage; you’ll just have to deal with it.”
She’s comfortable with her body: “I’m aware that my ass looks like a bag of flapjacks but I’m not trying to be the best-looking broad in the world. At a certain point you start asking yourself, ‘What really is sexy?’ It’s not just the elevation of your boobs. It’s being present and having fun and liking yourself enough to like the person that’s with you. If I believed that sexy was trying to be who I was when I did Basic Instinct, then we’d all be having a hard day today.”
Her love life: “I never get asked out. It’s so stupid. I don’t know what to do. I’ve been getting more brazen with flirting, but I don’t think men realize that I’m flirting. They just think, Oh, she’s fun!’” She turns to her longtime assistant and asks, “Do people even realize I’m straight? I think they have questions about it because I have so many lesbian friends right now.”
She’s now a spokesperson for Restylane fillers: She used them after her stroke, “It’s so common now for people to use fillers, it’s almost like a beauty treatment. It’s like you have mascara and a filler. And it’s a far better alternative than having your face cut apart and ending up looking like you got sucked into a wind tunnel.”
Gurl… why you gotta play SVU like that?! I’ll admit it, I was a big fan of Law & Order: SVU for years. But I hit a wall with it at some point, coincidentally around the same time Sharon Stone did her guest arc, which was also around the same time as Christina Lahti’s absolutely awful guest arc. I hold Lahti and Stone dually responsible for destroying my affection for SVU because they were AWFUL. And I can’t believe Sharon Stone actually thought she was “too good” for SVU. Bitch, please. She was not too good for network television. I don’t care if she worked with Marty Scorsese, no one is somehow “too good” or too accomplished to appear on a TV show.
Photos courtesy of Mark Abrahams/Harper’s Bazaar.
