In appearances on Dana Carvey and David Spade A fly on the wall Podcast, thank you long time Sharon Stone Saturday Night Live Producer Lorne Michaels for saving her life.
Stone was hosting SNL in 1992 when Michaels’ heroics occurred. This was right after Stone’s controversial role in the film was released Basic instinct.
“A group of people started storming the stage saying they were going to kill me during the opening monologue,” she said. “The police that were always there during all of this, and the security that was always there, froze, because they had never seen anything like that happen before. They just kind of froze. Lorne started yelling, ‘What are you guys doing, watching the fucking show?'” and Lorne himself started hitting these people and dragging them out. From the theatre.
Eventually, order was restored.
She said: “All these people were being beaten and handcuffed in front of me, and we started broadcasting live.” “I was doing this live monologue while they were beating people and handcuffing people at my feet.”
Six people were arrested. A spokesperson for the demonstrators said: “We are protesting against the homophobia and misogyny in Hollywood as depicted in the film.”
“They were angry because it was the beginning of my work as an AIDS field worker and as an AIDS activist,” Stone explained on the podcast. They didn’t understand, and no one understood at the time, what was really going on, and they didn’t know if AmFAR could be trusted.
Stone said she was “terrified,” but the show went on.