“When Ginger took off with the character that James Woods played, I ordered these fake breasts as I felt like she would have had a haircut and a boob job during that transition.

Yet even here, Stone was closely involved in how this would play out in Ginger’s look. (Stone’s powerful portrayal of Ginger’s dark inner life earned her a Golden Globe win and an Oscar nomination.)Īcross the course of the movie, what is equally impressive is the way in which costume plays an integral part in telling Ginger’s rags-to-riches-to-rags-again story, as her descent into depression and addiction is marked by her increasingly disheveled appearance, adding an extra layer of pathos to Stone’s heartbreaking performance.

Coming off the back of her breakout turn as one of cinema’s most devilish femme fatales in Basic Instinct, Stone built on her reputation for playing the dangerous glamour of this archetype and transformed it into something altogether more heartfelt, as we follow Ginger’s journey from small-time hustler to casino grande dame to the drug-addled destitution of her tragic final scenes. There was always something fated in Stone’s casting as Ginger, the moll to Robert DeNiro’s casino mogul in Martin Scorsese’s 1995 Las Vegas crime epic. Not only does it speak to the painstaking preparation Stone threw herself into while gearing up for one of her most unforgettable performances, but its synchronicity with the film’s 25th anniversary feels strangely appropriate. It has everything, all my research-from all the police reports about Geri, to the first-day call sheet, to the thank you notes from people on set.” My son was climbing up my bookshelf to reach something, and he passed something down along the way and said, ‘Hold this.’ It turns out it was my giant binder from Casino.

“A few days ago the greatest thing happened.

“You won’t believe this,” she says, unprompted. When we connect over the phone to discuss the anniversary of Casino, and the iconic style of her character Ginger, it becomes evident that this is far from the case. For most actors, the finer details of a character’s wardrobe from 25 years earlier would likely be lost in the fog of memory-particularly for someone with a career as prolific and wide-ranging as Sharon Stone.

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