Why did Sharon Stone's career go straight down the shitter?

Difficult to work with.

Sorry, but she's not a great actress. I always found her and her beaver to be very bland.

Really, r3? You don't find Sharon's lady ham enticing here?

Limited acting skills, plus she made it big when she was already in her mid-30s (which is like 65 in Hollywood years). But she can still claim to have an Oscar nomination (a well deserved one, if I may add) and a lead role in one of the most iconic films ever made.

Robbed of the Oscar for Casino.

F&F OP, the "straight down the shitter" troll.

Die, you shitter.

A W&W from me just to piss off R6.

She took on terrible roles after 1996. The last thing I liked her in was [italic] If These Walls Could Talk 2 [/italic].

She's ripe for a comeback. She's held up well.

A little too superficial hence the lack of staying power.

She was a total bitch at the LA Zoo once. Her husband getting bit by a komodo dragon was her just desserts.

She was already relatively long in the tooth when she broke through. I always thought they could have thrown her a Supporting Actress nod for “Bobby.” She’s great in that.

Joe Eszterhas painted a very poor picture of her in his memoir. Not that she wasn't fun to be around -- constantly had joints on her and would slug from champagne bottles -- but she was a whorish sloppy overly aggressive stop-at-nothing to get a role woman.

Aside from that he said when he finally got a chance to fuck her -- she was rewarding him with pussy after basically inventing her -- he said it was a spectacular letdown and her body was soft and doughy from "too many peanut butter on white sandwiches ..."

I’m convinced “Catwoman” cursed her career, as well as Halle Berry’s.

didn't she have a boyfriend or husband who was very obnoxious and too involved in her career?

she shoved her hairy clam everybody's face, what did she expect!

Limited actress + faded looks = recipe for irrelevance

Too beautiful.

R17 = Sharon Stone

America just didn't appreciate her. She was too striking for American audiences and if she had been French she would've been one of the great stars of European cinema.

She got old and that’s not sexy

Didn't she have a stroke or something?

Umm it's Elisabth Shue who was robbed.

Didn't MENSA disown her?

Well she's no Hilary Swank, that's fer sure.

She’s a train wreck. Next question?

Everybody hates her, that's why.

A reported 144 IQ. She doesn't have the time, nor the desire, for all the Bullshit.

Ummm did you see Basic Instinct 2?

Sharon Stone is known to have slept her way to a career, and that's fine if a) you have acting talent to sustain a career long after your sexual power has waned, and b) you are humble and grateful for having been given the opportunities. But, Miss Stone is only modestly talented and she behaved like an uppity bitch during her brief reign at the top. You don't earn industry respect that way.

She was excellent in that movie with Justin Timberlake about the kids who kidnap and kill a kid in the valley.

She was merely playing herself, R30. Common white trash living in a shitty McMansion, with druggy, tatted offspring.

A woman of little talent.

I thought she was great in Casino.

She got old and no one wanted to fuck her anymore in exchange for roles.

If she was truly talented like her peer Kathleen Turner, she would have transitioned into a career in theater and reinvent herself. But she was never in Turner's league as actress, so that's why her career has suffered. Just like Julia Roberts, she's simply a movie star, not an actress.

However, I agree with Charlie: She was phenomenal in Casino. In fact, she stole the movie from all the heavy-hitters involved in that film.

She was sick for a long time. It takes a lot of rehab to come back from a major stroke. The stroke left her with a seizure disorder. And along the way, she aged.

She may be difficult to insure. But she has used AmFar and other charitable work to keep her name in the papers. All it takes is one great role in one great film. If she gets that, she's back on top.

No, she's never going to be back on top. At best she gets to be Mickey Roarke. She'll be given one more good role, they'll milk it for one Oscar nomination and then she's done. Thank god.

Let's hope they remember not to loan her any jewelry.

She was born in the wrong era--that's why.

I always thought that Sharon Stone was cut from the same cloth as the 1950s/1960s ice blonde queen--not necessarily a great actress but just perfect playing the glamorous but aloof blonde sexpot in the vein of Kim Novak, Tippi Hedren, maybe Julie Christie.

If Hollywood was run at all like it was back in the day, I think she would've had a solid career starring in glamorous capers opposite someone like George Clooney (another throwback to the early days of 1960s sophistication). But it was the 1990s, and the best a "hot" blonde could do was expose her snatch in sleazy soft core masquerading as "film noir". I know she had some moderate success after Basic Instinct but like Clooney, her career kind of fizzled because there just wasn't a market for actors and actresses with their particular look.

What is there to do once we've seen it all anyway? Viewers could give her gynaecologist some lessons.

Agree with everything r35 said.

She also has an odd speaking voice. She sounds like she’s being strangled and it’s somehow monotone. But she’s so beautiful and I love looking at her.

Stone is not NEARLY as talented, or as interesting as she thinks. A couple decent performances have been hyped into the stratosphere, and she's never really been a fan favorite, just a tabloid type of stardom. Plus, at least at her peak, she was a massive pain in the ass. People hate that.

Just a vagina. No talent.

Her role in Casino was type-casting. Marty's no fool.

I watched "Sliver" again for the time in 25 years and you see how dull she is as an actress (eve in a thriller.) Painful to watch.

She looked great at the Oscars when she wore GAP.

Sharon, can we entice you with our couture line?

R45, I never got the appeal of this look. Her short hair looked pretty bad, too.

She believed her press.

R46, we were thinking of this look from 1996. But your photo shows her brand loyalty which we hope we can be part of for her future Oscar-worthy roles.

(Photo courtesy of Ms Stone herself.)

Remember when she had brain cancer?

No doctors do either.

[quote]Robbed of the Oscar for Casino.

[quote]Umm it's Elisabth Shue who was robbed. —Sue Sarandon

The only person robbed that year was me!

Did we just have a Sharon Stone thread? She was really good in Mosaic

She has very thin hair. Short and tousled is the best look for her.

Hairy clam r15? It looks shaved in R3! Is that photoshopped? Ive never seen the film. Which is it?

Basic Instinct, R53, which propelled her into the A List.

I meant, hairy or shaved?

Bush-shaving wasn’t a popular thing yet back in the early 90s.

R50 I was robbed for To Die For!

Because she’s a Republican. Although she’s pro-gay.

She was great on The Practice when she played a crazy lawyer.

Sharon grew up in Meadville, PA... which is a deplorable, Trump-loving area of the Rustbelt. So not surprised if she’s really a Republican, R58.

Her performance in Casino really is one of the best of all time, seriously.

1995 was a great year for actresses. Kidman did give the best performance that year, but out of the nominated actresses, I think that Elisabeth Shue gave the strongest performance.

Most name actors have about 10 to 15 years of real stardom (at best) where they can get good roles and the bucks. And, for women, it's usually less than that...they hit a wall at 40 or so and then an even bigger one at 50.

A tiny handful of actors make it to the A+ level of stardom and go on and on.

She is not a Republican. Jesus.

Sharon Stone’s vagina at R3 is the stuff gay men’s nightmares are made from

I'm gay and think vaginas are quite beautiful.

I don’t normally care R66, but Sharon’s looks hungry there. Like it’s asking for food.

She's done a lot for AIDS research and is the furthest thing from a Republican. I think she can retire with grace. Not many actors have one iconic role, let alone two. She has two - Casino and Basic Instinct. And she was in the iconic sci-fi movie, Total Recall. She seems to be sober now and more clear-headed so maybe she'll have a comeback.

I remember her complaining in some interview about how embarassing her stint on L&O SVU was for her, said she had to wear Leggs pantyhose, lol.

Are we for sure that she didn’t vote for Trump?

There were these weird YouTube videos she made of herself wandering though a park giving a spiel to auction off the Dalai Lama's SUV. In one of them, she gets on this really creaky, squeaky swing and drifts back and forth making this horrific noise that blocks out most of her pitch. I think she's one of those lunatics who is fun at a distance, but probably a total nightmare up close.

She had a health crisis which took a very long time to recover from. Who knows if she fully recovered, enough to take on big projects. And yes, her in Casino is one of the best ever.

Here's the browser version of Mosaic, if you haven't played/watched it yet:

She likely has some residual brain damage from her stroke.

R71 Faye dunaway would be another one if those types. I think the two women are quite a bit alike. Stone has always had a certain hardness to her that limits her range, I don't think she could ever play "gentle " . This is going to sound crazy, but I think she could play Hilary Clinton in a biopic, there is something about her that I think she could really inhabit the role.

She looks like she’s having a stroke and brain damage at OP, R74.

She looks good

R76, or possibly....A Grand Maul Seizure.

Joe includes his stories about SS during the filming of BI in his book, "American Rhapsody."

R79, Sharon would be one to suggest showing her snatch to gain attention for herself.

No "there, there."

Was she ever in contention for the role of Aileen Wuornos in “Monster?”

^^ Charlize (being insecure)

She could have easily played the last few things I've seen Michelle Pfeifer do: the mysterious blond on the train in "Murder on the Orient Express," or the original Wasp in "Ant Man and the Wasp." OR the evil queen in the upcoming Maleficient sequel.

R84 And Pfieffer's role in mother!

Please don't compare this cheap slut to me. I was a sweet down home girl America loved. And the world loved and still loves. She tried to steal my crown but couldn't. I'm as pure and loveable as a girl could possibly be. She could never compete with me and that's why I am so beloved.

Starlets (pretty model types who never do theater and don't properly train as actors) age badly in the industry.

hairy clam

She was already “over the hill” when she became famous. Then factor in the crazy.

Can we focus on me please?

To say that she is an OK actress in the right part means little, because you're describing about 70% of actors in Hollywood.

She can be good when paired with a great director who focuses on actors, like Scorsese.

Soderberg's show was very loose. I believe he was the cameraman and the editor on the show, on top of directing it. He has his thing going on with doing everything himself & I'm not sure if he's all that invested in actors.

Soderberg does all his own DP work most of the the time. He was not a fan of Stone. His muse was Julia.

He cast her as a lead in Mosaic. So he must like her.

She went from a [italic]Silver Spoons[/italic] guest appearance to [italic]Sliver[/italic] to … well, I guess next time they reboot [italic]Hollywood Squares[/italic] maybe they'll give her a call. But then no one will see what she's most famous for.