Sharon Stone Clarifies She Wasn't Dissing Meryl Streep In That Viral Interview

A patriarchal society and Hollywood for that matter loves a good catfight between two women. And Sharon Stone isnt about to play that tired game.

To be clear; Meryl Streep is one of the greatest actors of all times, Stone tweeted Wednesday. Just not to the exclusion of others.

To be clear; Meryl Streep is one of the greatest actors of all times. Just not to the exclusion of others.
Sharon Stone

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To be clear; Meryl Streep is one of the greatest actors of all times. Just not to the exclusion of others.
Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone (@sharonstone) June 23, 2021

The 63-year-old Casino stars tweet was a clarification to comments she made about Streep in a resurfaced Zoomer profile that went viral Tuesday.

To some, Stones comments read like she was jealous of or talking smack about the 72-year-old multi-Oscar winner.

The business was set up that we should all envy and admire Meryl because only Meryl got to be the good one, Stone told Zoomer. And everyone should compete against Meryl. I think Meryl is an amazingly wonderful woman and actress. But in my opinion, quite frankly, there are other actresses equally as talented as Meryl Streep. The whole Meryl Streep iconography is part of what Hollywood does to women.

She then pointed to several female actors she thinks are on par with The Devil Wears Prada star.

Viola Davis is every bit the actress Meryl Streep is. Emma Thompson. Judy Davis. Olivia Colman. Kate Winslet, for f**ks sake. But you say Meryl and everybody falls on the floor, she said, before including herself.

Im a much better villain than Meryl. And Im sure shed say so. Meryl was not gonna be good in Basic Instinct or in Casino.

Some on Twitter responded to Stones quotes by saying Stone was out there ending her own career ... or that Trashing the greatest actress in history is pathetic. Some even accused Stone of trying to cancel Streep.

But the greater context of Stones comments in the profile were about how Hollywood and society in general pit women against one another and that those in the film industry use Streeps esteem against other equally talented female actors.

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In a way, if one reads some of the comments rallying against Stone in favor of Streep, you can see her point.