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It doesn’t matter how big-time you used to be. (And she was.) Or are talented you are. (And she is.) But when thesps treat people badly, and believe their own publicity, and change agents like wardobes, and throw tantrums on sets, and act like a pig in sequel negotiations, then one day they find themselves permanently moving from film to TV. Trust me, Sharon Stone can’t get arrested for big film roles these days. Too bad, because she could be having Meryl Streep’s career. (No, I’m not kidding. She’s got the chops.) So now NBC announced today that Sharon Stone is joining Law & Order: SVU in a 4-episode guest-starring arc as a prosecutor. Talk about karma. Now she toils for another nasty piece of work, Dick Wolf. They deserve each other.
Let Sharon Stone Be A Cautionary Tale…
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Don’t always agree with you but in this case, very…very…very well put Nikke. I could not agree more. Nuff said.
If you’ve ever had the opportunity to work with Sharon, you will see how an entire crew gloms onto her whenever she is on set, desperately trying to catch her gaze, picturing “Basic Instinct” in their sweaty minds, leaning into her space, hoping to be the next boy-toy. Or even to catch a ‘whiff’ of Sharon Stone ! Seriously…it can be really annoying and amusing at the same time.
But yes, she has told off directors in front of cast and crew, with “Why, would I do it that way”.. etc. Sharon is a very wired up Pisces lady (and yes she does smell good !)
Comparing Streep with Stone is the comment of someone who doesnt know anything about acting. They are not in the same league.
Since Christine Lahti did a not-bad turn as a guest prosecutor on SVU, I don’t necessarily see it as a comedown for Sharon Stone.
Meanwhile, if she wasn’t stuck on TV, SVU’s Mariska Hargitai could also be having Sharon Stone’s would-be career.
I agree with you that she’s talented – very – but even if she was well-behaved, I doubt she’d be working in features much. Streep is an anomaly.
In other words, Glenn Close and Jessica Lange, two of the finest actors of our generation, are by all accounts well-behaved on set, yet the industry deposited them to TV long ago.
Sometimes, I can’t help but re-cast them in Streep movies: Glenn Close in “The Devil Wears Prada” – she would have had more bite and complexity – or to really up the ante, Jessica Lange in “It’s Complicated.” Now that I would have run to see. But Streep in “It’s Complicated?” Eh. I can wait till basic TV with commercial interruptions for that.
I’ll grant you that Glenn’s Film credits have dwindled some in favor of TV but bear in mind the quality of the TV choices… “The Shield” and “Damages”, with numerous awards for her performance in both. Plus, I believe she’s remained fairly active on stage.
As for Jessica, I can’t begin to fathom where your impression of her being “deposited to TV long ago” comes from. 10 credits listed in the last decade, all of which were Films – even if 3 of them were initially aired on TV.
I don’t quite think either of them have been relegated to the smaller screen, but I agree with your casting choices. There is a sense that because Meryl Streep played those parts and played them well, ipso facto she was the best choice for the role.
There’s a basic flaw with this whole post: warmth and likeability, Stone doesn’t have either one and never did. She plays cold characters for a reason (like Dunaway) and that’s the extent of the career. To put her in the same league as Streep is ridiculous.
“There’s a basic flaw with this whole post: warmth and likeability, Stone doesn’t have either one and never did. She plays cold characters for a reason” said NY guy
I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Stone.
But I do have to ask this, was this before or after the brain surgery?
Secondly in reading and article when she was in SF, she came across as a down to earth PA girl who helped the neighbors in SF and Africa
Furthermore in doing some research she is a minister. So how bad can she be.
So why the hate, actors, writers, etc are perfectionists when it comes to craft. Don’t fuck up our shit and we wont get hostile. While it pays to be nice, I’m sure if Sharon at 51 did a movie with Nicole Kidman ( Thelma and Louise) or changed her image from sex goddess to total bad ass ( Total Recall) Everyone would be saying ca-ching and she would rock the box office once more.
couldn’t agree more with nyguy – Sharon Stone could have Streep’s career? In what way? I can’t believe they even put the same job on their tax returns…
And NO ONE has had Streep’s career in the history of Movies- not even Bette Davis, who was playing crazy old bats at 40. Streep is sixty and if not at the top of her game, at a higher level than anyone.
Honey, Katharine Hepburn had 4 Best Actress Oscars! Meryl Streep doesn’t have 4 Oscars! She has the most nominees, 13, but she has 2 Oscars, and only one for Best Actress! When she has 4 then you can say she is as great as Katharine Hepburn.
I don’t think Sharon is as poor an actor as most people think, but I have to disagree that she could be having Meryl Streep’s career. Meryl is an extraordinary actress with impeccable professionalism. There is no comparison.
Agreed. Stone was amazing in Casino. Too much off-screen drama eventually hurt her career.
I fantasize sometimes that Stone eventually comes to her senses, does a bunch of quality low-budget indie films to remind people what she’s capable of, and then makes the big-screen career comeback to end all comebacks.
Then I remember some of the horror stories about her behavior on set…
Haven’t heard a hackier take on an actor in a long time.
Sharon Stone was one of the most beautiful and stunning actresses of her era. But to suggest that she was remotely in Meryl Streep’s league, even at her peak, much less could have had Streep’s career had she simply behaved better is one of the more preposterous things I’ve heard in a long while.
Gotta agree with SpitTake – that movie Sharon Stone did where she was on DEATH ROW looked like a parody from the late great SCTV – Stone made for a hell of a bitch goddess, but there was nowhere for that to go. She just liked chewin’ that scenery.
Agreed. Yet another ax-grinder disguised as… what, news item? The scoops here are good, but does every posting have to include some bizarre finger-wagging diatribe? “Let Sharon Stone Be A Cautionary Tale”? C’mon. Just report the news, please.
Agreed. Post an insult to Meryl Streep.
and I am surprised at you NIkki. As a woman in media yo personally know how difficult it is for actresses. Most of the stories are spread by assholes like Klores and male agents who get fired or male producers who do not get their way.
If an actress tries to defend herself against stories planted by people like klores and others then it brings more attention to it.
you should defend her for the work she has done for amfar alone.
Yeah, I can see how it’s difficult for actresses, but to say that some of those actresses don’t behave like assholes themselves would be a bit naive, Sharon was a star and behaved as such for years. I don’t know how professional that is.
Agreed with everyone who says Sharon Stone wouldn’t have Meryl Streep’s career. First off, Stone back in her heyday was too pretty; she’s not the kind of woman other women identify with. She lacked a subtle flaw like Julia Roberts’ wide grin, Sandra Bullocks’ square jaw, Reese Witherspoon’s crooked mouth, etc. (Meryl Streep has a famously idiosyncratic face.) Stone would never really be able to rise above femme fatale status, though she could have been a great Bond girl. Second, Stone has had too much plastic surgery; now she looks like someone put Catherine Tramell’s face through a taffy puller. (If Meryl Streep has had work done, it’s been discreet and incremental.)
In both cases, Stone’s problems should serve as a cautionary tale to another actress whose career is close to resting on the ocean floor – Nicole Kidman.
Oh please…too pretty? That’s what makeup is for! Look at Charlize Theron. Gorgeous, but with a little makeup help for Monster…OSCAR! Nicole Kidman, attractive, and with a little makeup help…OSCAR! I just think Sharon Stone was more interested in being a movie star and famous than she was interested in being an actress. She could have done the same thing these other two women did, but I don’t think that interested her. I think she’s way too vain to ugly herself down. That’s my honest opinion of her! And if you can’t get ugly, you can’t be taken seriously as an actress in Hollywood. Charlize Theron knew if she didn’t get the rights to that movie and produce it herself, no one would have ever let her do that movie. Good for her taking control of her career. Same with Hilary Swank. These new girls have the right attitude. They know it’s just a role, and when it’s done they can go back to being their glam selves. Sharon Stone could never do that. That was her problem!
are you on crack? The same career as Meryl Streep? Meryl did Shakespeare at Yale, made a huge impression in a small part in Julia, won an Oscar for one of her first roles in Kramer v Kramer and has arguably never sold out in her career (She Devil aside). She’s never relied on her looks, only her talent, and actually had to convince Sidney Pollock she was sexy enough to do Out of Africa. Stone, on the other hand, knocked around in Hollywood for a long time doing B movies, finally got a break in Total Recall and Basic Attraction by, essentially, playing a version of herself, and then squandered whatever heat she had on crap like Sliver and Intersection. Her only other good role/movie was Casino in which she, once again, played a version of herself. When as she ever shown Meryl Streep’s range? Even when she tried to “act” in duds like The Mighty, she was not good.
“Law & Order” is where has-beens go to die.
No, sweetie; that’s CBS.
Stone could have had Streeps career? Nikki, you surely don’t have the nose for talent.
I really can’t see Sharon Stone taking the parts that Meryl Streep played in Doubt or Julia and Julia even if they were offered to her. She is too invested in maintaining the icy sex godess persona she has cultivated.
I did a movie with SS about 6 years ago…and she was a trooper…on time, joyful and a team player…it may have come a bit late but it was a great experience…
She was amazing in two films -Basic and Casino…Where she just happened to play two cold hearted hot fucking bitches who would play guys like a violin. When she stretches she overacts-even when she tries to be understated and plain. It would be fun to see what Tarintino would do with her in a flick.
And the reason for this post is what? What relevance does this have to anyone anywhere? She’s transitioning into television. How is this news? Sally Field has two Oscars; catch her Sunday nights at 10 on ABC.
Miss Finke,
Sharon Stone~
Con: Cured her breast cancer with what? Some kind of thoughts?
Pro: Is not wonder bread soft anymore and called DY ‘boring as dirt.’
ps- loved reading about a ‘woman of age’ in the New Yorker.
Agree with most of the posters here. Sharon Stone is not cursed that she has not had Meryl Streep’s career; she is lucky that she hasn’t had Sean Young’s.
Didn’t Sharon Stone sign with Paradigm just a couple of months ago? Guess that move worked out really well for her…
meryl streep? are you joking? the single most ridiculous thing i’ve ever read on this site. just b/c you type it and use brackets doesn’t mean it’s true. comical.
Lange’s got issues, which keep her from being insurable and cast-able. Glenn Close looks funny on camera.
But Sharon Stone could so easily have had Streep’s role in “It’s Complicated”. She could be doing tons of that stuff if she wasn’t an insufferable bitch. She would have been more believable in “Mamma Mia” that Streep was (not counting the singing–no idea if she can sing or not. Michelle Pfeiffer could have been so good in that part, too.)
But Stone’s problems are all of her own making.
I don’t agree that she could have had “Streep’s role in “It’s Complicated”…there is an element of smarts, Vulnerability, strength, regret, and comedy that Streep pulled off in that…you really think Stone would be likable like that?
I don’t think people are getting what Nikki is saying. I can totally see Sharon Stone, had she gone down a different path attitude-wise and professionalism-wise, having the career that Meryl Streep is having RIGHT NOW.
That’s not saying Sharon Stone is in Meryl Streep’s league as an actress. That’s not saying that Sharon Stone belonged in “Sophie’s Choice” or “Kramer vs. Kramer.” But then, as successful and as much box office gold as Streep is now — and I, for one, applaud her for cashing in — no one would argue that her roles today consistently have the weight that her parts did in the 70′s, 80′s, and into the 90′s. “Mama Mia” and “The Devil Wears Prada” didn’t exactly require Streep to mine the depths of her talent.
Sharon Stone was once a really big deal. Even given the odds stacked against aging actresses in Hollywood (someone mentioned Glenn Close and Jessica Lange), Stone might have been able to parlay the clout she had into the career Streep is having now with the kinds of roles Streep is playing now. That’s what Nikki is saying, and I agree.
Exactly on point! “Wannabe” understands this post perfectly!
I have to disagree with the writer on two points: 1) I don’t think Sharon Stone ever had acting chops, and 2) I don’t think Meryl Streep is that good either. She’s been completely overated. I think Law and Order is too good for Ms Stone. In a just world, she would be next to Vince promoting Sham-Wow.
I thought it was kind of cool when she fed her husband to the komodo dragon.
That, sir, is a little slice of genius. I almost did a spit take on my keyboard.
Was this to see if we’re paying attention? Sharon Stone WAS not without talent, but really, you’re kidding, right Nikki?
Yep, I can just imagine Stone doing what Streep did in Angels in America, let alone Ironweed, Julie & Julia, A Cry in the Dark… need we go on? While Stone’s performance in Casino was surprisingly good, the key word is surprisingly.
Please stick with what you’re great at Nikki: reporting the facts. Taking on film criticism? Not such a good idea…