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Sharon Stone is opening up about what it was like filming in an underwater tank for months at a time
Stone shared details of the making of 1998’s Sphere, which told the story of a team of scientists who discover a massive, seemingly alien spacecraft buried 1,000 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean
She said she was the only cast member on set who had a diving license before filming
Sharon Stone is sharing how her extracurricular interests have often assisted her work as an actor — like her deep-sea diving rescue license, which came in handy during the filming of the 1998 sci-fi Sphere.
Speaking in an interview on Variety’s Actors on Actors with Keke Palmer, Stone, 68, said the movie was “an underwater dive movie where I was in a dive tank for five-and-a-half-months.”
“We wore the bell diving suits, which were the ones with the bubble [around the head],” Stone added. “And you have to be weighted so that you stay down, and your oxygen is also on a hose to the surface because we were in tanks. So it wasn’t just our tanks. We also had a supplemental hose.”
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Sharon Stone in ‘Sphere’
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She continued: “You know, you’re underwater seven, eight hours a day walking around, and you can speak because there’s a mic inside the diving helmet. But it worked out for me because I have a deep-sea rescue diving license. But none of the rest of the actors did.”
Sphere told the story of a team of scientists who discover a massive, seemingly alien spacecraft buried 1,000 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean. The film was directed by Barry Levinson — whose son, Sam, directed Stone more recently, in HBO’s Euphoria, which aired its dramatic finale episode on Sunday, May 31.
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Elsewhere in her conversation with Palmer, 32, Stone said of the show: “I think it’s the greatest show on television. We’ve met these kids. We’ve seen them turn into young adults. We’ve seen them turn into full-on drug dealers. And I’ve gone through it in my family….”
She added, “Euphoria is so relevant. I believe it should be shown in every high school, and I think all the parents should have to see it. As a mom, I love it.”
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