Sharon Stone Criticizes Hollywood’s Treatment of Middle-Age Actresses
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Sharon Stone, 48, is traveling the world shilling for her new version of an old film: “Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction in London’s Leicester Square.” Ms. Stone starred in the original “Basic Instinct” with Michael Douglas 14 years ago. Britain’s Daily Mail caught up with the actress at the London premiere of the movie.
Ms. Stone was quick to offer her opinion on growing older and bemoaned the fact that middle aged women were not treated with the respect they deserve. Like Jane Fonda, who said that when an actress if over 30 she is treated like a boat person and shooed away from film after film, Ms. Stone has come to the conclusion that ageism is worse for women in Hollywood than for men.
“In America we tend to erase women after 40, and it’s a period when women become their most interesting. They are sexual in a different and alluring way,” the Mail quoted Ms. Stone as saying. “The film expresses that sexual allure in an unabashed and provocative way – in a way that is gritty and dangerous and quite presumptive.”
