Sharon Stone says she shelled out Leonardo DiCaprio's salary for "The Quick and the Dead." The Hollywood icon opened up about working on the film, which she also co-produced, and securing the future star's role in the film in her memoir, "The Beauty of Living Twice." The movie sees Stone, now 63, play Ellen, a gunfighter who relocates to a rural town in the Old West and befriends DiCaprio's character, simply called Kid.
Stone said that she and her fellow producers auditioned several young actors for the role. "This kid named Leonardo DiCaprio was the only one who nailed the audition, in my opinion: he was the only one who came in and cried, begging his father to love him as he died in the scene," she wrote, per Insider.
Read more on foxnews.com