LadyGang - Sharon Stone, Part 1

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

Hollywood icon Sharon Stone joins the LadyGang for part one of an unforgettable episode filled with candid stories, fierce wisdom, and a whole lot of laughter. From her trailblazing career in film to surviving personal setbacks and reinventing herself time and time again, Sharon gets real about what it means to be a woman in control of her own narrative. The ladies dive into topics like aging in Hollywood, embracing vulnerability, and Sharon's new movie Nobody 2 and her upcoming role in Euphoria. It's bold, it's inspiring, it's classic Sharon — and it’s a must-listen.We have deals for YOU!!Good Wipes: Get your first pack of Good Wipes FOR FREE! Buy any package, text your receipt, and get reimbursed! More info at GoodWipes.com/ladygangTropical Smoothie Cafe: Smoothies and beachside bites made just for you! Earn rewards with the Tropical Smoothie Cafe® App! Learn more at TropicalSmoothieCafe.comProgressive: Wanna save on car insurance? Visit Progressive.com to see how much you can save!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

well what is this welcome to the lady gang that's amazing say that again the lady gang things are about to change around here each week we catch up with hollywood's hottest girl posse kelty knight becca tobin and jack vanik hello hello hello welcome to lady gang i am becca tobin here with jack vanik and kelty night hello hi then what we need is like a b-roll lady gang episode of just the four seconds that happens before we film each time when we say the shadiest thing that's ever happened but it never airs like we sit down we're like i think blah blah and then we're like okay here we go thank god we don't have like a production team that sell us out that would sell us out i know

it's just jared over there cutting it out he's a good one yeah thank god all right it's time for good week yes it is bad week oh no who wants to go first yeah my good week is mgk machine gun kelly is back he released a new song called cliche he is dancing in it like a pop star 2000s dream yeah and i am eating it up it is eaten it is digested it has do you love it too i just there's the riz is so high he can do anything that's what i think is so funny it's like he goes from like being like a hard rapper and then he's like no now i'm gonna be like a little dancing boy band guy do you know what i thought when i saw it i was like you what did I say this

only someone with the highest confidence and self-esteem would be like I'm gonna do this and it's gonna be received well because I don't know any man who would be like I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna look like a douche wouldn't be going through their head on the heels of his very public breakup yes it's so it's such a testament to just confidence and how people will drink the kool-aid if you think it's good too no well and number one the song is really good it literally is like an early 2000s and he was doing an interview about it he's just like we need some nostalgia like people don't listen to new music he could come to lady world we have pop 2k coming it's very on brand but he I just love it I love it I love the dancing I think it's

so cute and like yeah it's so true it's like he's just so confident he doesn't give a i love him so much he's so tall it's like do i like him or is he just tall and i'm like no i like him i like him there's something about him that he just like emanates and he's even hotter in real life you guys he is so hot in real life the riz is rizzle zizzling all over the city i don't know what all of the city but all over the room you're in you're like you can't look away it's like so many times these stars like the actors they're like so small and you're like oh that's whoever you know yeah jeremy allen white right when you walk in when you see machine gun kelly like a superstar has entered the room that like energy gets stuck towards him yeah i love him so much okay um

my bad week is i have a new enemy oh and it is the crows that are in my backyard now i love crows i think they're but do you no well i did okay well i love crows because they're very intelligent you can make friends with them like you can give them presents like it's the whole thing um so at first when we moved in we have these two crows that like hang out on our cypress trees and i'm like i'm gonna make friends with them they're gonna be my best friends i'll even presence every day stupid like whatever and then i went down like a reddit rabbit hole about a guy who made friends with these crows and now there's like a dozen crows that he cannot leave his house without these crows like basically not attacking them because they like him but like

waiting for a gift like he can't leave and then also if you piss off the crow then they hold a grudge and they pass it down to their generation so you're gonna have crows that like are your enemies forever so i never made friends with my crows but now they're doing this thing and i don't know if it's like a what time of the year it is but at 5 30 every morning it sounds like there's 20 crows outside my window squawking at each other at a level that is insane wakes me up every single morning and i don't know what to do shoot it and i don't know if i'm just kidding i wasn't expecting that shoot it i don't know if like one of our neighbors might be making friends with them and that's why there's so many maybe if you made friends with them they'd shut the

no they would be asking for stuff they'd want what kind of presents do people leave i want to start leaving presents for my crows you leave like little beads and like peanuts and like just little trinkets and stuff oh and then they'll bring you stuff they will yeah no like you can they're so smart but then because callie has i think i've said this before but callie has two crow friends yeah they chase each other through all the windows on my upstairs all day long but the problem is it's commitment you can't just be friends for a little bit like you're committing basically for your whole life very needy friendship yeah i can't wait um but no but mine's a problem because they're so loud yeah and then even if we close the windows they still wake me up so i like

you have to learn how to love the bird sounds because when they're not bird sounds they're squawking oh when i get up in the morning chris he will roll over to me like the sweet man that he is and he'll be like good morning are you ready for your bird sounds but yours are probably like chirps every morning yeah he walks and he opens the curtain because he gets up before me he opens the curtain and lets the sun in and then he opens the door or opens the window and then like they're probably and i hear the bird sounds that's not mine i'll take a video i'm gonna take a video next time i'm gonna show you guys because it's like it's the most cacophonous aggressive cacophonous yeah like bad sounding wow you're so smart good vocab word damn anyways mine's about birds too

so I have to go. Great. I'm a mother once again. The birds came back. Now I've lived in this house for four years and three out of the four years for two years in a row, the bird family built a nest in the center light of my garage, my middle garage, because I have a three door garage and laid eggs, made babies and then left. And I used to have a security camera right there with my old security system. My new one, don't rob me is better and different places. But anyway, I had it tilted down remember i had it tilted down and it was heating them probably giving them some sort of cancer and then i could watch the birds every day and it was like one of my big hobbies well last summer i did not get a bird nest and i was so sad and i thought it was because my dad spray

painted the light fixtures i was like they don't like the smell they came back this year better nest than ever i've been thrilled to watch them bird then build the nest i took a picture of the nest a few weeks ago or a week ago i noticed the eggs we had three eggs they recently hatched every day i go it's like the most important thing right now we're at like red little body faces the eyes are not open yet like little fur babies and it brings me such joy and i wish that i had birds nests all the time that i could look at all the time they are so cute i've seen the meme where it's like one day you're young and then the next you're dangerously close to bird watching yeah that's how i feel i'm like i gotta i'm so busy and i'm like i gotta go look at the birds today

my bad week is also animal uh related animal related um i was in the shower the other day so my shower is like quite big and it's open and then it has like a um like a what's it called um fountain rain shower okay so i have the rain shower head and i'm in the shower and i'm enjoying my shower i'm lathering up it's amazing and all of a sudden i look to my left a spider has come down from the rain shower and is just sitting on its web, just shoulder eye level, just tinkling with its legs in the water. I'm like, isn't the water supposed to like fuck them up? It's taking a bath.

Splish splash. I was taken. No. No. What do you do with a spider? I whacked it and then I put it down the drain. You're not supposed to kill a spider in your house. I love a spider.

Yeah. But the spider should know better than to come into my bath. Yeah. The only time I kill a spider when it's in my house is if it's something like that where it's really if the spider's here i just saw one upstairs i'll usually pick it up with something and put it outside i rehome all my spiders except for i did here i don't know if this is true or not so somebody that knows more let me know allegedly spiders that live indoors if you rehome them outside they die so i don't know what you're supposed to do then but where did spiders live

before houses i don't know okay also if it's like a black widow like no or you know like a recluse I'm like, well, they also live outside. Well, those we kill if it's like a scary spider. Becca, what zoo do you have today? I don't have anything to do with animals because I don't, I hate a bird. Fun fact, I hate a bird. Their little feet, gross. Well, they are dinosaurs.

Nothing more disgusting. Okay. Okay. So, um, my good week is this. My best friend just had a baby. Cute. and I have so for the last couple years a lot of my very close friends have been struggling to get pregnant there's been so much infertility there's been so much loss it's just been

such a bummer because we're so old that this is how it goes you're supposed to have babies and you're like 19 bummer um and so there were several years maybe the last two where I was like there are certain people in my life that I actually don't know if they're going to be able to biologically have their own children. And it's been, it's a very sad fit. I mean, obviously for them, but it's just like a very sad place to live in purgatory to like be trying and trying and trying and trying and trying. And so she had her baby, which is great.

And then another really good friend of mine is just in her second trimester and she, it's looking good. Oh, that's so exciting. It's really exciting, and it's just— These are first kids? First kids. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

And so it's really—when you watch somebody who wants something so badly for, like, five years, try and try and try and try, there's nothing more frustrating than, you know— So it's been such a good—she had a baby, and she named it after her aunt, Jane, who's Jane Lynch from Glee. Cute. Wait, is the baby named Jane? Yeah. Baby Jane.

I'm into these. I love the name Jane for a baby. It's so good. I like the resurgence. Old lady. Because Jane's not like old lady, but it's like boomer age. Yeah. And those names got forgotten about for a while.

So I'm going to just name Braxton. Yes. Or like February. Yeah. Kennedy. Jane is so cute. Isn't that cute? Very cute.

So it's just very happy. Oh, that's exciting. I know. I'm happy to see you too. Congrats, auntie. Okay. My bad week is you guys are going to roll your eyes. It's totally fine. Um, so in Austin, they do this thing called ACL live and it is year round. They invite artists to come and do a taped performance that they then have on their channel. And Zach, every morning we'll put on

someone's performance from ACL live. It's very cool. And I have a really good friend who messaged me about two weeks ago and she said hey this is super secret but cam is coming to to tape her acl live special do you want to go and i said obviously absolutely she'll move mountains for this do you know when it happened today last night oh no i was here sleeping in kelsey's bed uh-huh so anybody go that you know no no i don't think so but it is and even cam even cam dm'd me no asking if you're gonna go she said are you dm'd you unprompted yes we're friends i know but i mean it's social media friends i know but that's she texted me and said hey i'm coming to austin to do my acl live taping do you want to come i'll put you on the list and i said there's

never been any more devastating news than that so uh it's i guess we're gonna have to hire her for becca's 40th birthday now yeah we owe you big time you owe me big time speaking of big time sharon stone's here next here hey ontario come on down to bet mgm casino and see what our newest exclusive the price is right fortune pick has to offer don't miss out play exciting casino games based on the iconic game show only at BetMGM. Check out how we've reimagined three of the show's iconic games like Plinko, Cliffhanger, and the Big Wheel into fun casino game features.

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BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Today on the Lady Gang, we're honored to have a true icon back in our world whose influence spans decades in film fashion and activism. Her journey from Pennsylvania to international stardom is nothing short of extraordinary. With a reported IQ of 154, she began college at 15 before transitioning from modeling to acting. Her breakout role in Basic Insync catapulted her to fame, followed by a Golden Globe-winning performance in Casino, which also earned her an Academy Award nominations. Beyond her cinematic achievements, she has demonstrated remarkable resilience. After surviving a life-threatening brain hemorrhage in 2001, she embraced new creative outlets. And just before we recorded this podcast, we talked about my commissioned Sharon Stone artwork that's going to go in my bedroom.

Her memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, offers an intimate look at her life's challenges and triumphs, and we're so excited to have her back. The most viral guest we've ever had on Lady Gang is back to enjoy it and to make us popular again. please welcome in welcome uh please join us in welcoming back the multifaceted and inspiring sharon stone to the lady gang wow welcome back you're the hardest person to write an entrance from because it's like we don't have you don't need one either no it's like people know you sharon stone period what are you what are you painting for her i know i want to know the commission exciting well sharon's art is so beautiful i know this is why i'm very curious She's still – I feel like you're in a discovery phase.

Like you're – she does – okay, I'm going to say something. You want her to answer? Yeah. I want her to answer, but she does art the way fashion is. It's like a little collections at a time. So it's like a collection of this type and then a collection of this type. Yes, I'm working on a show. Not that I have the show at the moment, but I'm working on my next show, which is called Families and Other Crime Scenes.

Oh. And what I showed you and what you want to commission pieces from that, from that collection. And it's a real breakthrough collection for me where I feel like I finally really found my, specifically my voice in my painting. You know, I've been painting for a while now, and, you know, there's something kind of Japanese in my work. And the Japanese masters always say that you should copy an artist for a while to really get to your craft. And so I've copied a variety of artists to get to my craft and to understand and then done a lot of independent things and then just done a lot of traditional things that one does because I studied art at university. And so I've, you know, I've gone back and studied, redone all of the initial work and then restudied a lot of the different masters and reworked a lot of the different types of things and brushstrokes and, you know, there's all kinds of things that you work on. and I worked and worked and worked and worked on my toolbox. And out of the blue,

well, I can't say really out of the blue, my mom died. And I think whatever relationship you have with your mother, when the umbilical breaks, it's a very powerful rupture. It changes you in deep and profound ways that are so unexpected now i know that you're a young mother and when you're a young mother you change and for the first six years of being a mother it's like you your personality just gets erased every molecule like re reconfigures from the moment you get handed that baby. I'm an adoptive mother and I have three sons who are now grown. They're now 19, 20, and 25. And so all of a sudden I'm changing yet again to, I feel like I'm just a single girl. Like, I'm like, Oh, like I don't have to really think about you every second of every

day. In fact, I don't have to think of you constantly, though I do, though it's a reflex. I'm changed. And then my mom died. And that's like a rubber band that is stretched to its maximum and breaks. What was your relationship with her like? Not great. Not great. My mom had a terrible childhood. She, um, and my dad were depression era, uh, people. My mother had an extraordinarily violent home life. Uh, her parents were extreme abusers, the most extreme you can imagine they were that and she was removed from her home by social services when she was nine um her gym teacher called social services she was bleeding her back was covered in uh lash marks she was bleeding through her gym uniform and that was one of the minor things that

was happening to her and she was put in a home to be the housekeeper laundress cook everything for a home where the mom had asthma which was not treatable in those days and she did everything at nine oh my gosh my god and my dad came from a home where they were extraordinarily wealthy uh the first oil drillers in oil city pennsylvania so extreme wealth and he had come from a long line of royalty through from france through down from many people were relatives of charlemagne but also my dad's you know long distance relatives were the original king and queen of france and royalty down through um burgundy and then they were oil drillers and then the oil well blew and killed everyone god like on giant movie giant like that and so then

my dad was given away when he was four and he grew up in people's barns and his mother went to work as a nurse in a sanatorium and took his sister with her. So both of my parents grew up as child servants. And so they got married when my mom was 16 and my dad was 17 and started their own little life. So my parents had no idea how to be parents. And while my dad was quite a warmhearted person, my mom was an extraordinarily cold and extremely defensive person because of all of the unending abuse she suffered from being an extremely abused child to being a young girl with no protection or defenses did that help you because then you get eventually in your life you have all this adversity but like maybe because you weren't coddled in that way

you were tough enough to deal with like the hollywood of it all yeah i mean when i wrote my book the beauty of living twice um i said to my mom when i was kind of surreptitiously interviewing her, mom, you never, and my girlfriends were sitting around when I said this, I said, mom, you never let me lean on you. And she said, that's right. I, I taught you to stand on your own two goddamn feet. And I realized when I was reading the book to her before she really opened up to me. And then I rewrote the book that that was the biggest gift she ever gave me, that that was the thing she knew how to do and the thing that protected her and the thing that saved her and the thing that helped her. And it was the biggest gift of love she had to give me to teach me how

to stand on my own two goddamn feet. And over the years, it has been a gift, a luxurious gift in this environment and many others I've been put into, as you well know, all of you, it's no picnic. Nope. No. And so I think it's like, man, that's, that's so hard. What did you, how did you grieve that how did you grieve yeah complicated well i was sick i had the flu um and and she was here more visiting my sister than me but she came over and i said can i read you the rough draft and she sat by the bed and she was very stern and i as i read it to her it It was three days. And the second day, she sat on the bed, which was already big for her.

And the third day, she actually got in the bed. Oh, my God. And started to cry. And I hit record on my phone, which she didn't know. And I recorded her talking about her life and her childhood. And then I rewrote the book. And then I dedicated the book to her. because even though we did not have a warm and fuzzy it really helped me understand

her and where I came from and why and how to be different and all of my girlfriends of course and I had reparented each other quite a bit by then I was just which is what lady gangs do yeah I was wondering how that informed your relationship with women for the rest of your life because some women have that experience with their mom, their first female relationship. And if it's not warm, they really struggle trusting other women for the rest of their lives. But it sounds like you've figured out a way to, well, we taught each other how to hug in our twenties and we taught each other how to tell each other our hurts and our pains and our secrets in our thirties. And in our forties, we taught each other how to shut the up.

Uh, and do less. Yeah. Do less. Keep shit to ourselves. Don't, don't, well, I still overshare when I'm nervous. Uh, I go into a meeting and just, um, by panic share. And I think you do that when you have a cold mom, you go into rooms and just love me, love me, find something that you like about me. Do you like me? Do you like me? Do you think you could like me? Can you like me? Um, but I'm, you know, growing out of that in my sixties where I think it's weird, but I think the day after my mother died, I sat back in the saddle for the first time ever. And I realized I don't have to be the skinniest person in the room and I don't have to be the something as person in the room. and I don't really give a shit if you like me and maybe my ego got straightened out a little bit because all of a sudden I liked me and my painting improved exponentially uh like instantly like

night and day like boom I just started painting what the hell I wanted to and not I didn't care if anybody liked it and it got way better and i started commissioning paintings for my own home and in fact i took all the other art out of my house and just put my own art hell yeah for a change which is so crazy was she critical was she okay well maybe it's because your biggest critic was no longer earthside so you could do whatever the you wanted yeah really critical like hated my dog. What? Like that kind of dog. Yeah. Like what is that? What is that? When it would walk in the room, when my dog would come in the room, she'd say, what is that? Wow. Did you, what about during like, was she entranced by Hollywood at all? Like, was she like, Oh, here's you and De Niro.

Like, was she like, wow, Cher? No. When I was younger and I did a movie with Richard Gere, she thought he was pretty hot. And made a couple of hot jokes. Okay. But not really. No. So interesting.

Didn't really watch my stuff. Was there any? Had critiques of me on TV, but not really, no. I mean, not to me. Yeah. I was told she told other people, but not me. well she was only 16 years older than you that is such a close no she had my brother first oh she was 16 when she got married yeah and she was very close to my brother uh unusually close i mean

they live together uh but mothers and sons are so different yeah god it's so different yes and But, no, I think in reality, because she never got to be a kid and never got to be a teenager, I think what really happened, because she was close to my younger sister, I think what really happened and the way I kind of see it is that she was like a teenager. when she had me, she was like 20. So I think for her, when I started to get into my adolescence and started to do the things that girls do that she had never done, she wanted to do it with me or through me. And I think she became like jealous, a mean girl. Yeah. Right. And so she was like a mean teen who made fun of me with my sister my younger sister and they became like the clique at home that i wasn't in oh my god which is but it's but it's so understandable yeah i mean because she was a little girl right with kids which is why this whole idea

that little girls should have children is so inappropriate because little kids aren't emotionally equipped to have children and it creates such crisis such crisis it's just so inappropriate it's it's so wild that well i actually am happy i'm happy she whatever her critiques of you were i'm happy she got to witness all of your stages but i'm also excited she was around for the sharonissance because this has been pretty wild the last few years we had you on the podcast a couple years ago. And obviously you're Sharon Stone. So you don't really need to come on any podcast. You did it as a sweet favor to us. And I love what you guys do. The virality of your advice to us. Oh

my gosh. I constantly am having to go on the internet being like, this is our footage. Please take it down. Or you need to credit us because everything you said turned into a meme of people people wanted what you had to hear. And then all of a sudden, I don't know if it was because you were already in my little internet world, but all of a sudden I would see you pop up literally everywhere. I'm like, Oh, now she's on the cover of the Hollywood reporter. Oh no, she's doing a movie. Now she's like, I feel like the past few years you've been very busy and like the bitch is back. Okay. Is it true? You're going to be on euphoria. I'm going to be on Euphoria.

So exciting. I mean, the biggest show in the world. So exciting. I can't wait. So what has the sharonissance felt like? It's very, it's a very grounded, exciting moment. I have two films coming out. I have this film, In Memoriam, which is really so cool with Marc Maron that's like a dramedy that's really great, which is hard to say it's comedic because I play a woman with stage four cancer, but it is funny.

And it's beautiful. And he's a beautiful man, Marc Maron. Just a beautiful, funny, poignant, deep, lovely man. And I was thrilled to do it. And then I did Nobody, the sequel, with Bob Odenkirk. And he's the greatest. Did you have so much fun with him? Oh, my God.

I mean. What do you play? Are you love interest? No. I'm the villain. Yes. Which is so exciting. I play this knife-throwing psychopath, which is just, she's such a psycho.

She's just the most bloodthirsty psycho killer. It's fabulous. And I wanted her to seem like she just came right out of social media. You know, these things that terrify us, these things that are just freaking us the fuck out. I wanted her to be that. And I think she is that. because she's a confusing villain so she's great and she's the smoked earth type yeah and so then you get euphoria you get the call did you understand what euphoria was

had you watched oh yes I'm a giant okay I understood that we've been waiting like six years now for this next part of you yes I've watched the whole show more than once okay I'm I'm also deeply in the Sidney Sweeney, Maude Aptow, Zendaya obsession. Yes. Yes. This is, and then like they call you and they're like, we're going to put you on the cover of the Hollywood Reporter. Like, you're like, obviously.

It's just been. Are you like, yeah, bitch, I'm Sharon Stone? Or are you like, oh, wow, okay. Well, you know, I've worked with Paris LeBay as my creative director and stylist for 30 years, right? And so we do so much stuff together. And during COVID, people were calling and like, well, you do the cover of Vogue and we're going to tape the camera to a tree. And we said, we don't do taping cameras to trees.

That's not how we work. But we do have a team that has agreed to stay in a bubble. our entire team our our cameraman our video videographer our assistants and we have a skeleton crew and we don't we don't have to take campers i'll change outside i pee outside my crew turns around when i change i change outside it's the whole thing and we did on location unbelievable shoots like seriously gorgeous shoots with like seven models we did major and we ended up doing more vogue and bizarre and l and marie claire as shoots than any other person in the world during covid wow i think we did something like seven or nine vogue and bizarre

covers and we did all this work. And it really, cause we know that you have to keep the business in business even during these crisis times. So we work and because we work hard, I think people really respected that. And they understood that, well, if you're going to work when times are tough, we're going to give you work when times are good. What did you do in the quiet times of your career like still self-generated things or well I'm an artist you know I'm not just an actress and when not that just an actress is a demeaning thing but when I um when I was young and I said well you know I write lyrics and I was to school on a writing scholarship at 15 and I'd like to write a book or I would like to direct, or, you know, I, I'm a painter and people would

say, stay in your lane. And they had chosen a lane for me. It wasn't my lane. It was their lane that they had chosen to put me in, but it was clear that I didn't have a choice of lanes. And so on down times, I was like, you know, I get to do my own lane when you're not giving me anything to do and so I always continued to write song lyrics write poetry write short stories draw and paint it's just that no one ever really knew about it and then when things started to loosen up I went to New York and was like I'd like to publish a book of short stories oh no you can't no one's interested in that well then Tom Hanks published his book of short stories and I thought well, I guess unless you're a man. And then they said, well, you can't write a book unless you

write a memoir. So I took my short stories and pulled them together and wrote a memoir because I was like, okay, well, let's do it your way. And so that was a New York Times bestseller and a number one book in some countries. And I've sold it in 23 countries now. and I just thought well you know and then COVID happened and I went full-time back to painting so then I've been having shows internationally and that's been going extremely well huge so I just have decided that my lane are the lanes I choose now do you feel like resentful or not resentful or like well duh like when you get the call for euphoria are you like well someone came to their right mind like kiki palmer has this big thing right now that's viral and she's like it's a

reframe like where she says she says oh it's not that i didn't get this movie it's that your movie will no longer be as good as it could have been because i'm not in it and i love that like i'm like oh we got a reframe but like i don't like that you don't well christine crocus um is my good friend and she moved into my guest house to write the movie pimp for kiki palmer her break movie because we knew how good kiki palmer was for example sometimes it just takes smarter people to see you oh and sometimes you know you have to realize that you're technicolor in a black and white world and sometimes you have to realize you know i came out here when i was young i was in new york i i was modeling in new york and i was in what was called special bookings

which was pre-supermodel they had a thing in eileen ford and it was in the front of the book and it was called special bookings and this was we were the generation before uh supermodel cindy and all of those girls. Right. So, so before supermodels were special bookings. So we were the, we were the supermodels before supermodels where they were called supermodels. They were called, we were called special bookings. Cause they were like, cause you were just more beautiful than everybody else.

Well, cause we were the supermodels of our supermodel day, but they didn't say they, they weren't called supermodels. Right. Okay. They didn't, they weren't called supermodels. Cause you're a special booking now, Sharon. Yeah. Always has been.

That's such an interesting term. We were the supermodels of our days. Yeah. Right. so um and that's because we started at five grand a day and we were beauty models so we got booked for like all the cosmetics and jewelry and commercials and stuff right it was a different kind of thing so they called me and they flew me out here to replace laura of luke and laura on general hospital okay and i came out and i did the audition and then the casting lady called me

in and she said we won't be casting you i'll never forget and she had this gigantic high high high hair like six inches high on the top of her head and these big glasses and she made me stand in front of her desk oh lord right and she said we won't be casting you and i said okay why and she said because you have no mystery what and i thought okay whatever the hell that means so i went back to new york and i'm okay i'm not going to be on general hospital because i have no mystery and my do you need mystery for general hospital apparently and so i went home and my girlfriend said honey you're technicolor in a black and white world oh don't worry about it and i thought okay that makes more sense than i have no mystery right yep right and

then you know i didn't really i got a bunch of banal stuff until my 18th movie which was basic instinct we're gonna pause sharon here we had such a great conversation with her we actually need to do a part two because she's such an icon and she was in my house stay tuned next week for part two with Sharon Stone. And after that, we'll be back to our regular scheduled new episode every single week. Thanks for listening. We'll see you next Tuesday. Social support from Kali Carrera, editing from Jared Monaco, producing from Steve Delameter, and iconic hosting, creating, and being the gang gang of all gangs by Becca Tobin, Jack Vanek, and Kelty Knight. Kelty Knight support by Derek Haley.

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