Sharon Stone’s gala confessions continue.
After claiming she lost “half my money” presumably in the Silicon Valley Bank collapse in a speech at the Women’s Cancer Research Fund’s fundraiser this month — Stone says she also got shortchanged on her groundbreaking film, “Basic Instinct.”
Stone revealed at the New York Women In Film & Television’s 43rd annual Muse Awards lunch that she only made $500,000 for the 1992 sex thriller.
“Michael Douglas made $14 million. Now, I was new. I was new and he was a very big star,” she told the crowd of mostly female film and TV execs on Tuesday.
Stone also explained how she faced disrespect from a line producer on the Paul Verhoeven-directed project, who kept mistakenly referring to her as Karen throughout the “entirety of the film.”
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Stone says she only took home $500,000 for her 1992 hit, “Basic Instinct.”
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Michael Douglas was paid a whopping $14 million to star in the film, Stone said.
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“Even at the Governor’s Ball [after the Oscars], he still called me ‘Karen!’ And, I carried that humiliation really deeply within me — even though my name wasn’t on the poster,” she said.
Stone was honored at the event with eight other women, including “The Piano Lesson” star Danielle Brooks, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Janet Yang, “Slumdog Millionaire” star Freida Pinto and Sandra Lee.
Lee brought fiance Ben Youcef as her supportive arm candy for the luncheon. Spies caught him refusing Cipriani’s food and water because he’s observing Ramadan.