Despite catapulting to international stardom with Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone reveals that she was still paid far less than her male co-stars.
“After Basic Instinct, no one wanted to pay me,”; Stone says in an interview with PEOPLE at the recent FUNKSHION “Celebration of Hope” event in Miami. “I remember sitting in my kitchen with my manager and just crying and saying I’m not going to work until I get paid.”;
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Ultimately, she admits: “I still got paid so much less than any men.”;
The issue of gender inequality is not confined to Hollywood, she says, and change “has to start with regular pay, not just for movie stars, but regular pay for the regular woman in the regular job,” adding that when she was starting her career “I waited tables and scrubbed floors and everything else on the way up, and you must make the same, and it’s not cool that you don’t.”;
