Stone, Palmer Swap Numbers, Bond Over Motherhood and Craft
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- Sharon Stone, 68, joins HBO's 'Euphoria' Season 3 as a powerful Hollywood producer, while Keke Palmer, 32, stars in Peacock's serialized remake of 'The 'Burbs,' playing a mom for the first time since becoming one herself.
- Stone and Palmer exchanged phone numbers before cameras rolled and made plans to dine and work together, with their chemistry described as electric from the moment they met during the Variety and CNN Actors on Actors interview.
- Stone disclosed she adopted three boys as a single mom and created a dedicated 'dad questions' room in her house, saying her sons eventually gave her Father's Day cards in recognition of the safe space.
- Stone revealed her brother went to 'the biggest prison in New York' after entering the drug business — an experience she said informed her emotional reaction to 'Euphoria's' first episode and her belief that the show should be shown in every high school.
- Palmer discussed her role in the film 'Alice,' where she played a woman who realized she was a slave, saying the part connected her to her ancestors and marked the beginning of 'immense gratitude for self' — prompting a fist bump from Stone.
- Stone shared she holds a deep-sea rescue diving license and spent five and a half months in a dive tank filming 'Sphere' with Barry Levinson, father of 'Euphoria' creator Sam Levinson, noting she had prior history with the show's production family.
- Both actresses railed against the deceptiveness of Hollywood glamour, with Stone stating actors 'mostly work for free' on PR and photo shoots and both emphasizing the physical toll of long production hours on the mind-body connection.
Why it matters: Stone (an industry icon since 1992's 'Basic Instinct') and Palmer (a generationally younger star) exchanged contact information and publicly committed to working together, signaling a potential cross-generational collaboration. Their candid discussion reframed Hollywood's prestige conversation around single motherhood, the drug trade's real costs, and ancestral connection rather than red-carpet polish — material that lends weight to a potential joint project beyond this interview.
