When it comes to the expression “Don’t Kiss and Tell,” don’t count Sharon Stone as a fan. During a recent sit-down with Andy Cohen on his SiriusXM show, Andy Cohen Live, Stone and Cohen played a game of association, in which the Bravo producer would throw out a name, and the Basic Instinct star would say the first thought that came to her mind. While she had a quick answer for most of the actors named, she paused on Robert De Niro.
“Oh my God,” she exclaimed. “He’s the best kisser in the business.” “Is he?” Cohen responded, sounding surprised. “He’s the best kisser in the business?”
“He kissed me right out of my shoes,” Stone confessed. “Really.”
De Niro and Stone starred together in the 1995 film Casino, directed by Martin Scorsese. Stone played Ginger, a showgirl whom De Niro’s character, Sam, marries. While their relationship is destructive and volatile, it’s passionate until it ends with their mutual downfall.
Stone recalled that she and De Niro were filming a scene in which Ginger asked Sam for money. When he gave her $50, she persuaded him to give her more.
“Then I lean over, and I kiss him, and he really just knocked me out,” she continued. “And Marty [Scorsese] cut, and he looks at us, and he goes, ‘I think we got it, but would you guys like another one?’ And we both looked at him and went, ‘Yeah, I think maybe we need one more.'”
Stone won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for her performance and was also nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars. While the two never appeared in any other films together, working with the A-lister was a “dream come true” for the actress.
“I always wanted to work with Bob,” she previously told Business Insider. “I had auditioned with him many times before Casino.” However, she found herself feeling real anger during an especially tense scene that the two shared in the film.
“We’re sitting across a table arguing and he says to me, ‘You’re a good actress, you know that?'” The Euphoria star said. “And I remember in that scene when he said it, how furious it made me because it was my dream to do it, and then he challenged me at the table. I remember thinking, ‘Oh, buddy. Not today, pal.'”