Sharon Stone painted an unexpectedly heroic portrait of creator Lorne Michaels during a this week, describing an incident in which Michaels—whose various descriptors in pop culture do not normally include the phrase “action-packed”—apparently moved swiftly to “save her life” when protestors tried to storm the stage while Stone was delivering an monologue in 1992. This is per the latest episode of Dana Carvey and David Spade’s podcast, in which the duo of former stars had Stone on as their guest. (Including a moment when Carvey formally apologizes for , where he plays an Indian man forcing Stone to strip to go through airport security; Stone didn’t sound all that bothered by it, honestly.) The most shocking part of the interview, though, came when Stone described an incident where, during her monologue, a group of protestors “stormed the stage, saying they were going to kill me.” She then describes Michaels screaming at his crew and security to stop “watching the fucking show” before physically restraining protestors himself. And then they went live on TV! Although it’s not in evidence on the official
YouTube broadcast of Stone’s monologue—a pretty basic, uh, riff that features Michaels alongside several crew members leering at Stone while she recreates the film’s most famous scene—you can reports of the incident . Six people were apparently arrested, after infiltrating the show’s set by dressing and acting like production crew. In the podcast interview, Stone says they were protesting her early work with AIDS—due to early skepticism that organizations like The Foundation For AIDS Research were actually working on behalf of people with the disease—although spokespeople at the time said they were protesting the “homophobia and misogyny” of
Hollywood, due to ’s depiction of a bisexual woman as a depraved serial killer. Anyway, please enjoy the mental image of Lorne Michaels wading into the fray, five whole seconds before the show’s cameras apparently went live. He apparently extended Stone a standing offer to return to the show, possibly out of apology—but for some reason, she never took him up on it. [ ]