Actress Sharon Stone took not-so-veiled shots at President-elect Donald Trump and his win over Vice President Kamala Harris when she was asked about violence against women by a reporter at a press conference.
Stone spoke to reporters over the weekend at the Torino Film Festival in Turin, Italy, at which she was given a Stella della Mole lifetime achievement award.
During the press conference, a reporter asked her to weigh in on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Stone responded with a clear reference to Trump — who was called “fascist” by his own former national security aides and “America’s Hitler” by his then-future running mate — and his victory, and made a blistering call for men to stand up to other men:
This question about the question of violence against women is– is a big one. And I think we have to really stop and think about things.And we have to stop and think about who we choose for government. And if, in fact, we are actually choosing our government or if the government is choosing itself.You know, Italy has seen fascism. Italy has seen these things. You guys. And you understand what happens. You have seen this before.My country is in the midst of adolescence. Adolescence is very arrogant. Adolescence thinks it knows everything. Adolescence is naive and ignorant and arrogant. And we are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence.We haven’
t seen this before in our country. So Americans who don’t travel, who 80% don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete. What I would say is that the only way that we can help with these issues is to help each other.Now, we can’t just say women should help women because that’s the only way we have survived so far.We must say that good men must help good men and those good men must be very aware that a lot of their friends are not good men.And we can’t continue to pretend that your friends are good men when they’re not good men. And you must be very clear minded and understand that your friends who are not not good men are dangerous violent men. And you have to keep them away from your daughters, your wives and your girlfriends, because this is the time when we can no longer look away, when bad men are bad.I was watching a comedian the other night and he said, I asked a woman to dinner and she said yes. And it was such a brave thing for her to do because the only real thing, the number one killer of. In the world today is men. For men, the number one killer is heart disease.The number one killer for women is men! It is very important to remember that. It’s very important to remember that. Thank you.
At a later press conference, a reporter asked Baldwin to weigh in on Stone’s remarks.
Watch above via Torino Film Festival.