Sharon Stone is getting candid about growing older in Hollywood and how the Time’s Up movement is making waves for women on-screen.
“I’m not getting offered everything great every day but I’m getting great things sometimes. It’s figuring my own lane out because my lane has changed dramatically,” she says in an interview with “Good Morning America”.
Stone, who turned 60 earlier this month, admits she’s no longer “first on everyone’s list” when to comes to casting but she’s not afraid to make script suggestions when it comes to her roles, like in her new mother-daughter relationship film, “All I Wish”, in which the actress takes on a role originally written for a 25-year-old.
“I was sent the script to play the mom and I thought, It’s so cliche that I’d have a 25-year-old daughter who didn’t know what she wanted to do with her life and that was traumatic. Why should it be traumatic if you don’t know what to do at 25? Why should you be seeking a man to marry at 25?” Stone asks. “I said, ‘How about I play the daughter and we get someone wonderful to play the mom.'”
Susan Walter, the writer-director of the film loved her suggestion and hired Ellen Burstyn in the role of Stone’s mom.
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Stone says the Time’s Up and #MeToo movements are giving women more of a voice in Hollywood.
“It is hard to have people think about [films] from the female point of view because most stories are written from a male point of view,” she tells “GMA”. “Not a lot of stories are told about how women actually feel about anything.
“I do think that with these changes, the key to everything going on is that we are going to start seeing women as we are,” she says, adding that she’s seen change take place since she began acting in the late 1970s. “That’s the whole point of everyone’s voice right now. Not just to be heard, but to be heard in every way. Women really very much want to be seen as they are.”
