Kaley Cuoco: ‘I just got b–ch slapped by Sharon Stone’

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HBO Max show “The Flight Attendant,” and there’s one star who is joining her in the spotlight: Sharon Stone.The “Big Bang Theory” star, 36, looked back on working with the Oscar nominee, 64, telling Jimmy Kimmel about some “very intense scenes.”As it turns out, the “Basic Instinct” star got handsy with Cuoco and slapped her several times while filming.“[Stone] was a fan of the show.

She loved Season 1 and heard we were casting my mom, and she called casting herself and said, ‘I’d love to do this,’ ” Cuoco said on Monday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”“And casting said we had a voicemail from Sharon Stone … I was like this can’t be real and found out it was,” she added.Cuoco noted that the scene where Stone smacked her across the face was improvised. “I think one of our scenes was like 10 minutes long and very emotional,” she continued.

She stated, “There’s a lot of crying. Before we started the scene, she sat me down and said, ‘Hey, how do you feel about me touching you in this scene?’ I said, ‘Whatever you want to do Sharon.

You are Sharon Stone. You do what you want to do. I’m just so happy you’re here.’ She goes ‘Great.’ “The “Wedding Ringer” actress said that the two did the take and it was a “very long emotional scene” and at the end of the scene, Stone was only supposed to come up to Cuoco, say her line and walk out. “She’s supposed to say ‘I like you, but I don’t love you very much.’ She says this line to me and she grabs my face and she whacks me,” Cuoco said, adding that her reaction was “about as real as you could get.” But the “Casino” alum immediately came back and apologized to Cuoco, exclaiming: “Oh my God, I love you.