By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Sharon Stone paid for Leonardo DiCaprio’s wage from her personal pocket to rent him for her 1995 film “The Quick and the Dead”, the actor has revealed in her memoir “The Beauty of Living Twice”.
The e-book, during which the actor talks about her life and profession in Hollywood, was launched within the US on Tuesday.
In the memoir, the 63-year-old actor displays on the whole lot, from her painful childhood in Pennsylvania to movies comparable to erotic thriller “Basic Instinct” and Martin Scorsese’s mobster epic “Casino”, which had earned her an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe award.
“The Quick and the Dead”, which was directed by Sam Raimi, marked a serious second in Stone’s profession as she was additionally co-producing the movie in addition to headlining it.
It featured Stone as Ellen, a gunfighter who relocates to a rural city within the Old West and clashes with its chief (Gene Hackman) to avenge her father’s loss of life.
During the course of the film, she befriends DiCaprio’s character, merely known as The Kid.
Talking concerning the film, Stone wrote within the e-book that she and her fellow producers auditioned a number of younger actors for the position of The Kid, reported IndieWire.
“This child named Leonardo DiCaprio was the one one who nailed the audition.
In my opinion he was the one one who got here in and cried, begging his father to like him as he died within the scene,” Stone recalled.
However, the studio TriStar Pictures wasn’t eager on hiring DiCaprio, who, regardless of incomes an Oscar nod for “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”, was nonetheless not a lot identified in Hollywood.
“Why an unknown, Sharon, why are you always shooting yourself in the foot?” got here the reply from the studio.
“The studio said if I wanted him so much, I could pay him out of my own salary. So I did,” Stone wrote.
Not simply DiCaprio, Stone revealed that she needed to struggle the studio for hiring Raimi as nicely.
The actor stated that Raimi’s low-budget horror motion pictures — “The Evil Dead I” and “Army of Darkness” — led the studio to imagine that he was a “D-movie director”.
Stone wrote that she informed TriStar that Raimi “would work nearly for free as an enticement” after which the studio employed him.
Talking about her expertise as a producer, the actor stated, “Getting a producer credit score as an actress is commonly considered in my enterprise as a ‘self-importance deal’ that means they pay you for the job however shut the f**ok up and keep out of the best way.
” “I will not settle for an arrogance deal and allow them to know that upfront. This is illegitimate, I say, and I prefer to work inside the regulation.
That will get plenty of silence and never plenty of pleasure on the opposite finish,” she added.
Last 12 months, actor Russell Crowe, who featured in “The Quick and the Dead” as Stone’s love curiosity, had stated that he owed his profession to the “Basic Instinct” star.
During his look on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Crowe had revealed that Stone fought arduous with the studio to forged him within the film.
“She was in a sword struggle with the male producers on the movie, and she or he put her foot down and stated, ‘I’m going to rent the particular person I need to rent because the love curiosity form of factor’.
“If it wasn’t her for her strength of commitment, I don’t know how long it might have been before I got an American movie. I’ve got a lot to thank her for,” Crowe had stated.