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Sharon Stone Says She Paid Leonardo DiCaprio’s Salary on Sam Raimi’s THE QUICK AND THE DEAD — GeekTyrant


Sam Raimi’s western, The Quick and The Dead is a great flick! I love the fact that Raimi made a western and it also had a great cast that included Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, and Leonardo DiCaprio.

The story is set in the late 19th Century, it follows “The Lady” (Stone) who rides into a frontier town ruled by a ruthless outlaw to join a deadly dueling competition in an attempt to exact revenge for her father’s death.

Well, it turns out that the studio didn’t want to hire DiCaprio despite his Oscar nomination for his role in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Stone was so impressed with his audition though that she ended up paying his salary to get him cast in the film!

Stone revealed this bit of info in her memoir The Beauty of Living Twice (via Insider), “This kid named Leonardo DiCaprio was the only one who nailed the audition. In my opinion, he was the only one who came in and cried, begging his father to love him as he died in the scene.”

Stone recalls the studio telling her, “Why an unknown, Sharon, why are you always shooting yourself in the foot? The studio said if I wanted him so much, I could pay him out of my own salary. So I did.”

So, DiCaprio ended up playing “The Kid”, and this was his fourth movie role. It’s pretty cool that Stone stepped up for DiCaprio and had his back. In the end, it worked out and DiCaprio delivered a solid performance in the movie.


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