Sharon Stone’s Beverly Hills balcony, and she and I are lamenting the death of flirting. ‘I’ve realised that people are just not whistling any more,’ says the Oscar-nominated star of Basic Instinct, Casino – and Netflix’s addictive new drama Ratched. ‘It was a lot of fun when we were allowed to whistle and flirt, but that era has passed.’Are we allowed to feel sad about that? ‘It is sad.’ Stone gives an elegant, one-shoulder shrug. ‘But people just aren’t like that any more.
Technology has taken away the whole interpersonal flirtation thing anyway, so now it’s not even in the air: people just don’t flirt face-to-face.
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