Sharon Stone claims that Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci were never “misogynistic” to her on set 

• Stone spoke with Variety about her experiences with “stars” who she called to be “very sexist.”
• They’re so misogynistic — now, that is not Robert De Niro.
• They just will not listen to me, and will not allow me to affect their performance with my performance.

But never Robert De Niro or Joe Pesci, according to Sharon Stone, who claims that “some of the biggest stars in the business” have mistreated her in the past.

On Wednesday, Stone, 64, spoke with Variety about her experiences with “stars” who she called to be “very sexist” as they discussed her recent appearance on Saturday Night Live with artist Sam Smith.

“I’ve worked with some of the biggest stars in the business, who will literally talk through my close-up, telling me what they think I should do,” she said. “They’re so misogynistic — now, that is not Robert De Niro. That is not Joe Pesci that is not those guys.”

“But I have worked with some really big stars who will literally talk out loud through my close-up, telling me what to do,” the Basic Instinct star continued. “They just will not listen to me, and will not allow me to affect their performance with my performance. That’s not great acting.”

“I mean, I get that you’re great and everybody thinks you’re wonderful,” Stone added to the outlet. “But listening, being present for those fractured moments is really the human experience.”

On Martin Scorsese’s 1995 film Casino, which traces the lives of each actor’s character in Las Vegas in the 1970s and ’80s, Stone most memorably collaborated with De Niro and Pesci, both 79.

The Oscar nominee continued, “People don’t want to hear my, as they say, f——— thoughts,” which is why I’m not the most well-liked actor in town.

Stone told the publication, “Maybe because of my devotion, maybe because I’m just kind of weirdo.” But I’m only there to be present, I say.

After taking over for her late friend and former amfAR chairwoman Elizabeth Taylor at the group’s annual Cannes fundraising event in 1995 amid the fight for HIV/AIDS research, Stone told Deadline in December that she “didn’t work for eight years.”

“I had pretty big shoes to fill with Elizabeth Talyor at amfAR,” Stone said at Saudia Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival, adding that her publicist at the time told her: “If you do this, it will destroy your career.”

She recounted: “At the time you weren’t allowed to talk about AIDS. She got hives on her neck. I said, ‘I know, but I am going to do it, you’re gonna kill me.’ She replied, ‘And if you don’t, I am gonna kill you.’ ”

The following three years, Stone was asked to replace Taylor, and during that time, she claimed to have had “no notion of the opposition, brutality, hate, and persecution that we would experience.”

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