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AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Billy Baldwin vows never to work with Sharon Stone again, airing decades-old feud on podcast Thu Sep 10 18:22:47 2026

Billy Baldwin says he will never share a set with Sharon Stone again, detailing a bitter on-set falling-out during their 1993 thriller Sliver that he claims left him refusing even to kiss her on camera. Baldwin, 63, made the remarks on the Lisa Guerrero Unleashed podcast, calling it the first time he had spoken publicly […] The post Billy Baldwin vows never to work with Sharon Stone again, airing decades-old feud on podcast appeared first on American Almanac .

Billy Baldwin says he will never share a set with Sharon Stone again, detailing a bitter on-set falling-out during their 1993 thriller Sliver that he claims left him refusing even to kiss her on camera. Baldwin, 63, made the remarks on the Lisa Guerrero Unleashed podcast, calling it the first time he had spoken publicly about the full scope of his working relationship with Stone. The actor alleged that Stone, 68, went from friendly to ice-cold within weeks of filming, then spent three months refusing to acknowledge him on set, no "hello," no "goodbye," nothing. The podcast appearance is the latest chapter in a feud that reignited in 2024, when Stone discussed their time on Sliver during an appearance on The Louis Theroux Podcast. Baldwin fired back on social media at the time, and now he has put his version of events on the record at length. Baldwin says Stone froze him out for three months on the Sliver set The Daily Mail reported that Baldwin told Guerrero the early days of production went smoothly enough. "We got along pretty well the first couple weeks." That changed fast. Baldwin said Stone stopped speaking to him entirely, a freeze that lasted the rest of the shoot. He also alleged that Stone told her friend, model Janice Dickinson, that she intended to make Baldwin "fall so hard" for her, a claim Baldwin said he heard secondhand through crew members in the hair and makeup department. Baldwin went further, alleging that Stone erected some kind of shrine to him inside her trailer on set. He offered no firm explanation for what it meant. "I don't know if it was voodoo... I don't know [if] it was hoping for good energy between us or not." None of Stone's representatives have publicly responded to Baldwin's latest round of allegations. The Daily Mail said it reached out to representatives for both actors but had not received a response at the time of publication. A kiss he refused and a producer's alleged suggestion One of Baldwin's most pointed claims involves a sex scene in the film. He said the tension between him and Stone grew so severe that he went to producers with a specific request: do not make him kiss her. "I can do the scene but just please don't make me kiss her....I can't kiss her." Baldwin said the scene was reworked so the characters had sex against a pillar instead, removing the need for a kiss. Whether that version appeared in the final cut of the film is unclear from his account. The actor also addressed one of the most inflammatory claims in the long-running dispute, the role of legendary producer Robert Evans. In her 2021 memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone wrote that Evans suggested she sleep with Baldwin off camera to break the tension and improve his on-screen performance. Baldwin disputes Stone's framing. He claims Evans made the suggestion to both of them, not just to Stone, and that Evans pitched it as a practical fix for what he saw as unresolved chemistry. Baldwin recounted Evans's alleged words on the podcast: "I keep getting reports that there's incredibly bad tension. We know what it's all about. All this pent-up sexual energy tension. Just do it and get it over with." Baldwin was clear that Evans, in his telling, was not commenting on their acting. He was talking about their off-screen friction. 2024 blowup set the stage for Baldwin's full account The current round of public sparring traces back to Stone's 2024 podcast appearance with Louis Theroux, where she revisited the Sliver drama. Baldwin responded aggressively. Breitbart reported that Baldwin posted on X, formerly Twitter, suggesting Stone still carried a grudge because he had "shunned her advances." He also floated the idea of writing a tell-all book. "I have so much dirt on her it would make her head spin but I've kept quiet. Wonder if I should write a book and tell the many, many disturbing, kinky and unprofessional tales about Sharon?" The feud drew enough attention to land on daytime television. The New York Post reported that hosts on The View questioned Stone's motivations for bringing up the decades-old story. Joy Behar suggested Stone may have welcomed the attention. "People crave relevancy and that threat that he made, I'm gonna bring out all this dirt about Sharon, she must've been like, Yeah, bring it out, because I haven't been in the public eye for a while." Baldwin's wife, Chynna Phillips, posted a cryptic religious quote on Instagram during the flare-up but did not comment directly on the dispute. Baldwin praises Stone's talent, then draws the line For all the bitterness, Baldwin did not pretend Stone lacked ability. He praised her screen presence in terms that left no room for misunderstanding. "She had incredibly powerful, 11 out of 10, screen presence." He continued, referencing her career-defining role in 1992's Basic Instinct: "Sharon Stone on screen, whether she's crossing and uncrossing her legs or not, Sharon Stone on screen has got awesome screen presence." But talent, in Baldwin's telling, was never the problem. He vowed he would never work with Stone again. In almost the same breath, he said he would "love to bury the hatchet," shake her hand, and give her a hug. Whether Stone has any interest in that handshake remains an open question. She has not responded publicly to Baldwin's latest comments. A feud that says more about Hollywood than either actor The Baldwin-Stone saga has now stretched across three decades, two memoirs' worth of competing claims, multiple podcasts, and a social media confrontation. Neither side has produced corroboration beyond their own accounts. Evans, the producer both actors cite as a central figure, has not weighed in, and his current status is not addressed in any of the public statements. What remains is a dispute built almost entirely on one person's word against another's, with no neutral witnesses stepping forward and no documentary evidence beyond Stone's memoir and Baldwin's podcast recollections. Hollywood has always run on ego, leverage, and selective memory. This feud is a reminder that when the cameras stop rolling, the performances do not. The post Billy Baldwin vows never to work with Sharon Stone again, airing decades-old feud on podcast appeared first on American Almanac .