During a question-and-answer session at the Turin Film Festival, Sharon Stone spoke about her 1995 Western adaptation The fast and the deadDuring which she criticized director Sam Raimi for his lack of “loyalty.”
The famous actress, who was in the northwestern Italian city to receive a lifetime achievement award and pitch the film, compared her experience working with Raimi – who was largely known as a celebrated filmmaker. Evil dead and The dark man — to her time with Martin Scorsese on the epic crime drama casino.
“I had the great Italian cinematographer Dante Spinotti, and I was very lucky with the production [The Quick and the Dead] “And to have the opportunity to act in this movie,” she said. “Director Sam Raimi, who I had the opportunity to take from B movies to B movies, and then he directed Spider-Man He became a very big film director. I brought Russell Crowe from Australia [pre-Gladiator]. I had the opportunity to represent Leo DiCaprio [pre-Titanic] He brought him in a great lead role, and I really enjoyed the production.
while Basic instinct The star said that she enjoyed Al-Raimi's projects, and confirmed that the working relationship between them did not last.
“In Sam Raimi's case, I really liked his movies,” she continued. “I thought he was very clever and very funny – different from Marty Scorsese, because he's Italian, he has the loyalty, he has this family feeling, and because of that Marty and I still have a relationship, and because of that Marty and I still work.” together. Sam was a kid and he had no loyalty, he had no family, he never talked to me again, he never thanked me, he never hired me again, he never acknowledged it. relationship. Marty, because I worked so hard and because I admire him so much, our relationship continues today; There is depth.”
The fast and the deadthough a flop upon release with mixed critical reviews and a low domestic gross, has since become a cult classic of sorts. The action thriller revolves around a mysterious, gun-wielding woman (Stone) who descends on the town of Redemption to avenge her father, who was killed by the town's sadistic mayor (Gene Hackman).
When asked why Stone did not continue her work behind the camera as a director, she listed sexism in Hollywood as a major obstacle.
“After I produced The fast and the deadI came to the studio, asked for $14 million, I had the script, I had the music, I had everything. “I installed them everywhere,” she explained. “I was told it was the best pitch anyone had ever heard, but the truth is that – as a woman – ultimately during my time in the 1990s and early 2000s, the resistance against women’s work, and my work, was so great that I couldn’t that”. I'm getting back into directing which was unfortunate, but I feel like my intelligence was wasted trying to convince less intelligent studio heads to let me direct. So they asked me to come in and help them shoot movies at the studios, which I did because obviously I was very good at producing. I just feel that the resistance against women having power, the resistance against me having power, has been so great, and the resistance to allowing my intelligence to be useful has been enormous and by less intelligent people.
