Actress Sharon Stone couldn’t help but laugh when she was asked if over the course of her 40-plus-year career, she was ever exposed to the sexual assault and harassment that many in Hollywood have stepped forward to call out.
Stone, 59, sat down for an interview with Lee Cowan on CBS Sunday to discuss her work on HBO’s Mosaic as well as life following a 2001 hemorrhage when she was asked about sexual misconduct.
‘I don’t know how to ask this in a delicate way, but were you ever in a position like that, that you felt that you were uncomfortable?’ Cowan asked Stone in the clip.
Sharon Stone, 59, sat down for an interview with Lee Cowan on CBS Sunday to discuss her work on HBO’s Mosaic as well as life following a 2001 hemorrhage
When Cowan asked if the actress had ever been exposed to sexual misconduct, Stone cackled
The question comes as more survivors detail their experiences using the #MeToo movement, calling out the likes of alleged abusers like Harvey Weinstein, James Franco and Kevin Spacey.
It also comes as many in Hollywood rally around the #TimesUp initiative to provide voices and support to those who speak out against sexual misconduct.
And the Casino starlet let’s out a cackle that clearly indicates that the answer is obvious.
‘You’re laughing, but I don’t know if that’s a nervous laugh, or an Are-you-kidding-me-of-course-I-was laugh?’ Cowen added.
‘Can you imagine the business I stepped into 40 years ago? Looking like I look,’ she said after laughing
The Meadville, Pennsylvania, dominated the 90s when she appeared in films like Basic Instinct, Total Recall and Silver.
When a hemorrhage in 2001 almost killed her, Sharon had to readjust her career and take a step out of the fast lane.
Stone said: ‘Oh, I’ve been in this business for 40 years, Lee.’
The Meadville, Pennsylvania, dominated the 90s when she appeared in films like Basic Instinct, Total Recall and Silver (pictured with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall)
When a hemorrhage in 2001 almost killed her, Sharon had to readjust her career and take a step out of the fast lane (pictured with Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct)
‘Can you imagine the business I stepped into 40 years ago? Looking like I look, from Nowhere, Pennsylvania?
‘I didn’t come here with any protection. I’ve seen it all.’
The actress recently appeared at last week’s Golden Globe Awards where she presented Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a TV Series or TV Movie with JK Simmons.
Next the star plays the lead in Mosaic on HBO, which premieres January 22
Sharon had a part in award season favorite The Disaster Artist, where she plays dancer Iris Burton alongside James Franco, Seth Rogan and Alison Brie.
Next the star plays the lead in Mosaic on HBO, which premieres January 22.
The Steven Soderbergh mystery is following the murder of children’s book author Olivia Lake, played by Stone.
About the role she said: ‘We were raised to accommodate men, particularly in my generation.
‘And women so often lose their own identify to the identity of the men that they’re with. They even change the way they dress and what they do to fit the men that they’re with.
‘We’re starting to acknowledge our own gifts as women and not think that we have to behave as men in order to be empowered or powerful or valuable.’
She’s also linked to the films Sunny and What About Love as well as an untitled Martin Scorsese project.