Sharon Stone blasts Marvel filmmaker for lack of loyalty and gratitude after she gave him huge career break

Sharon Stone slammed filmmaker Sam Raimi after he said he didn’t recognize the break she gave him earlier in his career.

The Basic Instinct star, 66, made the comments about Raimi last week during a question-and-answer session at a press conference in Turin, Italy, during the Torino Film Festival, Term reported Monday.

The Oscar-nominated actress spoke about the Spider-Man filmmaker during the festival screening of The Quick and the Dead, the 1995 Western that Stone starred in and Raimi directed.

Stone, who played Ellen in the film opposite Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Gary Sinise and Leonardo DiCaprio, spoke about the influence she had in the making of the film, which hit theaters in February 1995.

“I had my wonderful Italian cinematographer Dante Spinotti, and I was very blessed to be able to produce this film and have the opportunity to cast it,” said Stone, who also made headlines for her political comments at the festival.

She continued, “The director Sam Raimi, who I was able to take from B movies to A movies, and then directed Spider-Man and became a very big A movie director.”

Stone said she “really enjoyed producing” and was proud that she had a hand in casting DiCaprio and Crowe ahead of their respective career breakouts with 1997’s Titanic and 2000’s Gladiator.

“Sam was a kid and he has no loyalty, he has no family, he never talked to me again, he didn’t thank me, he didn’t rehire me, he didn’t acknowledge the relationship.

Stone said her personal feelings for Raimi did not influence her high opinion of his work, as she compared him to another filmmaker she worked with, Martin Scorsese.

“In the case of Sam Raimi, I really liked his movies,” Stone said. ‘I thought he was very intelligent and very funny – different from Marty Scorsese, because he’s Italian, he has loyalty, he has that sense of family.

“And because of that, Marty and I are still in a relationship and Marty and I are still working together.”

Projects Stone and Scorsese have collaborated on include 1995’s Casino, which earned Stone her only career Oscar nod playing the role of Ginger.

Stone was part of an ensemble cast that included Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and James Woods, as well as the late Frank Vincent, Alan King and Don Rickles.

Stone said at the press conference that sexism in Hollywood hindered her career behind the camera, as she was directing a film about 30 years ago.

Stone played the role of Ellen in the film – which hit theaters in February 1995 – opposite Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Gary Sinise and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Stone said of Raimi, “Sam was a kid and he has no loyalty, he has no family, he never talked to me again, he didn’t thank me, he didn’t hire me again, he didn’t acknowledge the relationship.” The filmmaker pictured in 2022 in LA

Stone was honored with the Stella della Mole Prize during the festival on November 22

“After I produced The Quick and the Dead, I came to the studio and asked for $14 million,” she said. “I had a script, I had the music, I had everything. I put it everywhere.

‘I was told it was the best pitch anyone had ever heard, but actually – a woman – ultimately in my period in the 1990s and early 2000s, the resistance to women working, to me working, was so big that I couldn’t do it anymore. I’m going to direct again and that was a shame, but I feel like my intelligence was wasted on convincing less intelligent studio heads to let me direct.’

Stone said she was eventually asked to help out in the casting department for studios, “which [she] did it because it was obvious [she] was very good at producing.’

Stone added: “I just feel that the resistance to women having power, the resistance to me having power has been very strong and the resistance to allowing my intelligence to be helpful has been enormous , and also by people of lower intelligence.’