Sharon Stone Reveals Why She Was ‘Furious’ With ‘Casino’ Co-Star Robert De Niro originally appeared on Parade.
Sharon Stone has worked with several iconic actors over the years, and she recently looked back on filming Casino with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.
“Joey really, really fought for me to be seen and get the job. So I have a serious loyalty to Joey because he’s always backed me,” Stone, 67, told Business Insider about Pesci, 82. “It was always Joey and Jimmy Caan. They backed me since I was 19.”
When it came to working with De Niro, 81, Stone said that she “always wanted to work with” him. However, the opportunity didn’t present itself until the 1995 film.
“I had auditioned with him many times before Casino. It was my dream to work with De Niro and hold my own,” she said.
Stone was eventually cast as the glamorous and self-involved Ginger McKenna in the Martin Scorsese-directed film, in which her character caught the eye of DeNiro’s Sam ‘Ace’ Rothstein.
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It turns out that Stone had the opportunity to prove herself as an actress while filming one scene with De Niro. “There’s a scene in the movie where we’re sitting across a table arguing, and he says to me, ‘You’re a good actress, you know that?'” she recalled. “And I remember in that scene when he said it, how furious it made me because it was my dream to do it, and then he challenged me at the table.”
“I remember thinking, ‘Oh, buddy. Not today, pal,'” Stone recalled. “He knew every button to go for with me because he is the greatest observational actor. He can crawl under your skin and get in there.”
Stone certainly proved that she’s a capable actor in the role, and she even earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination at the 1996 Academy Awards.
Sharon Stone Reveals Why She Was ‘Furious’ With ‘Casino’ Co-Star Robert De Niro first appeared on Parade on Aug 7, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Aug 7, 2025, where it first appeared.
