Sharon Stone ranted about Meryl Streep's career after shutting down interviewer: 'there are other actresses equally as talented'

Zac Ntim

Jun 23, 2021, 16:24 IST

Sharon Stone ranted about Meryl Streep's career after shutting down interviewer: 'there are other actresses equally as talented'

Sharon Stone and Meryl Streep. Christopher Polk/Getty/Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Sharon Stone questioned why Streep is so acclaimed during an interview with Zoomer magazine.
She said there "are other actresses equally as talented as Meryl Streep."
She added that she believes she is a "much better villain than Meryl."

Sharon Stone shared some candid thoughts about Meryl Streep's acclaimed career during a recent interview with Zoomer magazine.

Stone was profiled by the publication last month following the release of her recent memoir, "The Beauty of Living Twice."

During the sit-down, the interviewer cited a passage from the memoir in which Stone wrote about how Hollywood forces women to compete for jobs and then began to ask the "Basic Instinct" actor what it had been like to "finally" work with Streep on Steven Soderbergh 2019 film "The Laundromat."

But before the reporter finished the question, Stone interjected and took issue with the question.

"I like the way you phrase that, that I finally got to work with Meryl Streep," Stone said. "You didn't say, 'Meryl finally got to work with Sharon Stone.' Or we finally got to work together. Because that's the way her life went, she got built up to be, 'Everyone wants to work with Meryl.' I wonder if she likes that?"

"The way you structured the question is very much the answer to the question," Stone continued. "The business was set up that we should all envy and admire Meryl because only Meryl got to be the good one. And everyone should compete against Meryl. I think Meryl is an amazingly wonderful woman and actress. But in my opinion, quite frankly, there are other actresses equally as talented as Meryl Streep."

She added that "the whole Meryl Streep iconography is part of what Hollywood does to women."

Stone then continued to name a collection of actors that she believes are just as talented as Streep.

"Viola Davis is every bit the actress Meryl Streep is," she said. "Emma Thompson. Judy Davis. Olivia Colman. Kate Winslet, for f---'s sake. But you say Meryl and everybody falls on the floor."

She added that she believes she is a "much better villain than Meryl."

"Meryl was not gonna be good in 'Basic Instinct' or in 'Casino,'" Stone said. "I would be better. And I know it. And she knows it. But we're all set up to think that only Meryl is so amazing that when you say her name it must have been amazing for me to work with her."

Stone's comments on Streep began to recirculate online and started trending on Tuesday - Meryl Streep's birthday - after a Twitter fan account shared an extract of the interview. Naturally, many people had thoughts.

"I adore Meryl Streep but Sharon Stone saying this kind of stuff is exactly why she's Sharon F---ing Stone," entertainment journalist Liv Marks tweeted.