Sharon Stone Talks Working With Legendary Actor Rock Hudson | WWHL

All right, Sharon Stone and Bob Odenkirk starring Nobody 2. The little doggy is not in the film, but the film is in theaters right now nationwide. Tori Nicholas is behind the bar for the non-profit Clear the Shelters campaign, promoting pet adoption and helping find loving homes for animals in need. They are fundraising through September 15th. This dog we found out is going to wind up being how heavy? 80 to 100 pounds. Wow. This is a great Pyrenees dog. Look how gorgeous this is. Gorgeous. Oh my God, what a good dog. This is a good one. I want to go back to the fans. We have Danielle from Hackettstown in our studio audience. Where's Hackettstown? Oh, it's northwest New Jersey. Excellent. What's your question? So my question is for Bob. How did your Saturday Night Live alumni respond to you kicking ass in your role in Nobody? I was a comedy writer for 25 years, and I did acting for fun when I came along, and I got this crazy opportunity on Breaking Bad, and it turned into this career where I get to be in drama. And then I said, what about action? And I expected to be laughed out of the room, and I wasn't. And then we got to do it, and it worked out, and I trained really hard to do a good job. But all the time I'm training, all the time I'm doing it, I'm thinking, if this works, my friends are not. Their brains are going to explode, because they're going to be like, what? Yes. Houghton Kirk. Right. He sits in the back of the room and makes wisecracks. Right. So they couldn't believe it. Instead of doing all his own stunts. Yeah. I mean, I thought of my friends Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel, Adam Sandler, David Spade, all these guys I spent so many years with. And I was a writer and had it happy to be. Yeah. And just the fact that they would see me on the screen and go, what? What? Right. So I know that their brains are spinning. Yeah. I love it. Yes. By the way, when you were writing on SNL, did we ever see you in the background? Yeah, yeah. Or I was in little, Lauren would have me do two line things. Yeah. I was in it five or six times. Yeah. All right. Now let's take a virtual fan. Here's Bobby from Arizona with a question for Sharon Stone. Sharon, what can you tell us about the role you are playing in Euphoria, and where will we find Rue in the upcoming season? Okay. Well, this show, the only thing I can tell you is it starts later in their lives. Okay. So we pick them up later. But I can't tell you anything about Rue because that's none of my biz. Right. And I can't tell you anything really because it's all top secret. And I haven't even gotten my scripts, even though I start really soon. Okay. But I do know that I'm working with Maud and Aptow and Sidney Sweeney. And I'm really looking forward to it. Yeah. I mean. I am too. Oh, I went in. And of course, I spent a lot of time with Sam Levinson. Yeah. Written and directing and producing this show. And he's just brilliant. Yes. And I worked with his dad, Barry. Yes, you sure did. Right. And so it's really very touching to me to continue to work in the same family. You know, in our business, business is relatively small. You know, you think of Hollywood as this big, big business and this big thing. But it just isn't. Yeah. You know, when you think about it, like the Oscars or the Golden Globes take place in a very small room. Yeah. It's a ballroom. Yeah. You know, it's not like it's a giant thing. And so when you get to work within a family, it's so lovely. Family business is very touching to me. And so to get to go work on Euphoria and work within a family too is very moving to me. Before we leave, I just have to... I saw this viewer question and it piqued my interest. Larry H. want to know, do you have any favorite memories from working with Rock Hudson on the Vegas Strip War? I have enormously big memories of working with Rock. You know, when you're little and you see all these big stars on TV and you watch all these shows and you know, Rock was such a big, big star. And Rock was so tall. I mean, Rock was like 6'5", right? And I went to work on this show and I went to Vegas and I'd never been to Vegas. And I mean, I was working with Rock and James Earl Jones. Wow. And I played the character that I played again in Casino. Really? Yes, it was the same person. Wow. And so I went there and I was new, right? I was a kid. I was new. And I'm with these gigantic stars and I was always a really fitness freak. So I'd get up at 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning and work out before I'd go to work. And Rock knew I was so new. And so he would say, why don't I come over and have breakfast with you before we go to the set? Wow. And so he would tell me what to order him for breakfast. And he called me my little Dickens, my little Dickens. And he'd call me up and tell me what he wanted for breakfast. And I'd order us both breakfast and he'd come to my room and he would teach me my scenes. Wow. Not run my scenes. Right. He would teach me my scenes. And then after work, he would want to go get a martini. Now, I'd never had a martini in my life. So in the beginning, I'd have a milkshake and he'd have a martini, right? And we would walk down the strip and I was looking up at Rock Hudson and walking down the strip. And I just thought, this is the greatest thing that ever happened. Wow. Right? And then eventually, I had a martini. Right. Now, of course, this much of a martini and I was hammered. Right. And then he would tell me stories about Hollywood and his friends and Elizabeth Taylor and all these people, you know? And I was just completely awestricken that this was happening to me. And then I met, of course, James Earl Jones, who I then ended up going to Africa with and making two movies with and who became my friend, Jimmy J. Yeah. Right? And it's just unbelievable to me that I have had this opportunity to meet these legendary people. Have you written a book? I did. You did? It's called The Beauty. Thank you. Oh, my God. I got to write. It's called The Beauty of Living Twice. Oh, my God. Fantastic. I need a great book. We just recommended a bunch, but this is great. It's been really, I mean, because of Rock, I met people like- The Beauty of Living Twice? Yes. Okay, great. I met people like Mel Torme. Yeah. And I had, I mean, like Mel was in my kitchen cooking. Wow. You know, and you're opening the fridge and Mel's like throwing the mustard and he's singing. And you're like, sure, Mel, you know? And it's like, I became friends with Phyllis Diller and, you know, all these like great comedians. Yeah. And like, it was just, it's just unbelievable. Yeah. That like, you know, my 40th birthday, I was roasted by Red Buttons and Phyllis Diller. Wow. At my sister's house. Amazing. Right? And you don't, I mean, you're a kid. Yeah. A kid from nowhere. Yeah. And like, I've got John Travolta dancing with Phyllis Diller in my sister's living room. That's amazing. This is nuts. Yeah. Right? Yeah. It was just, it's just so special. And these lovely people like you, who I've gotten to work with, who are so kind. Yeah. And Bob is, Bob is, you're just exemplary, Bob. I'm very lucky. I'm extremely lucky. You know, I talk about being a writer on SNL and then becoming an actor. I mean, come on. There is a whole lot of luck going on. Yeah. And I'm fully aware of that. And as a young person, I saw a lot of my friends become famous, you know, and they should have. Yeah. Great, very talented people. And I never wanted that, tried to get that, aimed for it. But it was an interesting thing. And now to go through some level of that myself is so strange. I just, I feel genuinely lucky. And I'm very aware of, I think being famous when you're young is probably really hard on everything about you. I haven't. When you're older, one of the gifts is that you've lived so much of your life, not famous, and you don't see yourself as that. That's what happened to me too. You don't even buy into it, really. You just go, well, no, I absolutely know who I am. Right. And I'm not that great or important. Yes. I guarantee it. Yeah. And I lived 30 years as an adult that way. Yes. And I know that's the truth. Yes. And so I know you have to work, you know, to do anything good. Hey, even if you work hard, it might not work out. Yeah. So for a movie like Nobody 2, I'm not just trying to promote it to work out as well as it does. It's because everybody showed up. Yep. But Bob, it's really because you're so authentic. And it's that authenticity that we see on the screen. Yeah. At the end of the day, we believe he's a good dad. Yeah. When we see that movie. Yeah. We believe he's kicking ass. We believe he's doing all this stuff. Yeah. But the movie wouldn't work if we didn't think he was a good dad. The movie is Nobody 2. It's in theaters now. Thank you, Tori Nicholas. For more, keep it on Gallatin.com. Good night, everybody.