Overview

• Stone credits Joe Pesci with championing her for the Casino role and says his early advocacy earned her lasting loyalty.
• She recalls a tense table scene in which Robert De Niro’s challenge—“You’re a good actress, you know that?”—tested her craft and underscored his observational technique.
• Stone maintains that her 1996 Best Actress Oscar nomination for Casino paradoxically led to a dearth of roles and reinforced typecasting pressures.
• The actress asserts she excelled as the villain Lendina in the upcoming action thriller Nobody 2, marking her first major on-screen return in years.
• Trade reports indicate an Amazon MGM Studios retelling of Basic Instinct is in development, a project that could invite Stone’s creative participation.