’90s bombshell Sharon Stone finally revealed which actor is the best kisser in Hollywood.
The Basic Instinct actress could consider herself an expert in the subject after having starred alongside such iconic leading men as Leonardo DiCaprio, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Douglas, and Arnold Schwarzenegger in her four-decade career.
But Oscar-nominated actress melted at the mere mention of a different actor.
“Oh my God, he’s the best kisser in the business,” Stone, 68, declared when asked about her Casino co-star Robert De Niro, 82. “Kissed me right out of my shoes.”
“Really? He’s the best kisser in the business?” asked a stunned Andy Cohen while interviewing Stone for Radio Andy on Wednesday.
“Yes,” Stone emphatically replied, then recalling the shoot for the 1995 classic Casino.
In the scene, De Niro’s casino-running mobster Sam ‘Ace’ Rothstein falls for Stone’s Ginger McKenna, a hustler and former prostitute. After being wined and dined in his Tangier Casino restaurant, Ginger asks Ace for some money to go to the bathroom.
“I get him to give me money to go to the bathroom, and he gives me this money. And I look at him like, ‘Really? I think a little more than $50 for the bathroom,’” Stone recalled. “And he looks at me, and he reaches in and he gives me like a $100.”
“And then I lean over and I kiss him, and he just really just knocked me out,” she said.
The actors kissed so passionately that both the production crew and director Martin Scorsese took notice.
“Marty cut, and he looks at us and he goes, ‘I think we got it, but would you guys like another one?’” Stone joked. “And we were both looked at him and went, ‘Yeah, I think I think maybe we need one more.’”
Stone, whose breakthrough role in Basic Instinct cemented her as an acclaimed actress and a Hollywood sex icon, earned Casino’s sole Oscar nomination, and the only of her career.
It is unclear whether De Niro shares the same affection, as he has never publicly commented on the onscreen connection.
Thursday’s Sirius XM revelation is not the first time Stone has fawned over the Goodfellas star. In 2020, Stone first revealed her adoration for De Niro to Cohen.
“Bob was far and away the best kisser,” Stone said on Watch What Happens Live.
“I don’t know if I could compare anything else to that, everything else was kind of meh,” Stone said, laughing. “Maybe just because I held him in just extraordinary high regard, and it was the pinnacle of the kissing moment for me.”
“I was just so madly in love with him as an actress to start with that he probably could have hit me in the head with a hammer and I would’ve been like, ‘Oh yeah!’” she joked.
Stone is currently starring in the hit TV show Euphoria, where she plays a Hollywood TV executive. The show will begin streaming on HBO Max on April 12.
