Sharon Stone Lampoons Sam Raimi For Discontinuing Their Working Relationship: “He Doesn’t Have Loyalty”

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During a Q&A held at the Torino Film Festival, Sharon Stone reflected on her 1995 revisionist Western film The Quick and the Dead, during which she called out director Sam Raimi for his lack of “loyalty.” The iconic actress, who was in the northwest Italian city to receive a lifetime achievement award and present the film’s screening, contrasted her experience working with Raimi — then largely known as a cult filmmaker for The Evil Dead and Darkman — to her time with Martin Scorsese on his epic crime drama Casino. “I had my great Italian cinematographer Dante Spinotti, and I was very blessed to produce [The Quick and the Dead] and to have the opportunity to cast this film,” she said. “The director Sam Raimi, who I had an opportunity to bring from B movies to A movies, and then he directed Spider-Man and became a very big A movie director.

I brought Russell Crowe from Australia [pre-Gladiator]. I had the opportunity to cast Leo DiCaprio [pre-Titanic] and bring him into a big leading role, and I really enjoyed producing.” While the Basic Instinct star said she enjoyed Raimi’s projects, she maintained that their working relationship didn’t last. “In Sam Raimi’s case, I really liked his films,” she continued. “I thought he was very intelligent and very funny — different from Marty Scorsese, because he’s Italian, he has loyalty, he has that family feeling, and because of it Marty and I still have a relationship and because of it Marty and I still work together.

Sam was a kid and he doesn’t have loyalty, he doesn’t have family, he didn’t ever talk to me again, he didn’t thank me, he didn’t hire me again, he didn’t acknowledge the relationship.