Sharon Stone may be renowned for her stunning beauty and confounding acting skills, but her willingness to address even issues like the ever-raging gender parity issue in Hollywood further adds to her staggering aura—just like she recently did at Deadline’s Red Sea Studio, which has everyone speculating if she had finally revealed the reason behind turning down Blue Beetle after the studio tried to humiliate her again after 3 decades.
In her recent statement, she shared her example of the movie she was offered a year ago for a humiliatingly low price. Judging from the numbers and her description, we can’t help but trace it down to DC’s Blue Beetle, i.e. the movie that was highly rumored to have offered Stone a lead role.
The Real Reason Why Sharon Stone Turned Down Blue Beetle
Having recently spoken exclusively at Deadline’s Red Sea Studio in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Sharon Stone once again addressed the issue of the gender pay gap that she feels is yet to be completely eliminated from Hollywood. During this, the actress shared:
“Thirty years ago, when I did Basic Instinct, Michael Douglas made $14 million and I made $500,000,” she said. “Last year, there was a $100 million film being made by a studio, and the actor, who was new, was going to be paid something like $8 million or $9 million – someone we don’t really know – and the studio offered me again $500,000 to be the female lead.”
Although she didn’t state clearly which studio or film humiliated her by offering her such low bucks, judging from the numbers and her description, all the dots connect to show DC’s Blue Beetle,
Furthermore, if looking at the production budget of the DC film: it was suspiciously close to the amount mentioned by the actress, i.e. $100 million ($104 million to be precise). Continuing, Stone said:
“And I thought, thirty years later this is still happening. So, I don’t think it has changed much. So, I turned it down and the studio head said, ‘Well, good luck to you Sharon.’ And I said, ‘Well, good luck to you.’ And two weeks later he was fired.”
When asked about her plans to step back into the acting world once again, the Basic Instinct star said:
“[I’d] love to do a television series. It’s quite possible that I will do one in the not-too-distant future.”
Judging from her statement, it seems fans will be able to see Sharon Stone back on the big screen pretty soon, and hopefully, in a good and equal and fair paying television series.
Sharon Stone Found KSA ‘Intriguing’ After The Film Festival
Stone is a returning guest at this week’s Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia this week, after having visited the festival last year for the first time and she said that the KSA “is so intriguing because it’s an emerging country.”
At last year’s Red Sea Film Festival, Sharon Stone said that the KSA “is so intriguing because it’s an emerging country.” It seems that this year as well, her opinion on Saudi Arabia is still the same. Here’s why:
“As our country [USA] is sort of divesting itself from being a first world country – now we’re considered a second world country on the global map – it’s really interesting to see as we, as women, lose our rights, here in Saudi women are gaining their rights and it’s so intriguing to watch how this is happening,” Stone said.
Continuing, she went on to share another difference that brought her to this opinion on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia:
“When I did Basic Instinct, I wanted to direct a film and I got laughed out of the studio. And now you see that two out of the six women that had their films nominated in Cannes were women that were funded out of Saudi Arabia. And so, people say, ‘Well how could you go to Saudi Arabia and look at all of those injustices in Saudi Arabia?’ And I said, ‘Well, I don’t know – I think it was pretty unjust that I couldn’t direct in America.’”
Just like that, Sharon Stone made sure to have the last word once again!
