Sharon Stone has no shortage of opinions about a good screen kiss

Sharon Stone is not shy about ranking her romantic scenes, and Robert De Niro just landed at the top of her list. During the April 1 episode of SiriusXM’s Radio Andy, Stone said her kiss with De Niro in Casino was enough to earn him the title of the “best kisser in the business.”

“He kissed me right out of my shoes,” Stone said. “Ugh, yes.”

The 68-year-old actress pointed to one scene in the 1995 crime thriller in particular. In the film, she played Ginger McKenna, a hustler who uses a bathroom break as leverage to get more money from De Niro’s character.

“We did this scene where I have to go to the bathroom, and because I play this hustler, I get him to give me money to go,” Stone recalled. “He gives me this money, and I look at him like, ‘Really? I think I need a little more than $50 for the bathroom.’”

Then the bargaining got a little more expensive.

“He reaches in and he gives me, like, $100, and then I lean over and I kiss him,” she said. “And he just really knocked me out.”

Even Scorsese noticed

According to Stone, the kiss was strong enough to get director Martin Scorsese blushing.

“Marty cut, and he looks at us and goes, ‘I think we got it but would you guys like another one?’” she said. “And we both looked at him and went, ‘Yeah, I think maybe we need one more.’”

Stone has been talking about Casino with the same enthusiasm for years. In 2024, she told E! News that working with De Niro was a career-defining experience.

“I love the people that I worked with on that film,” the Basic Instinct star said. “I learned more from working with Robert De Niro than I think I probably learned all together in my entire career.”

She also praised Scorsese, Jimmy Woods and Joe Pesci, adding that Pesci “really fought for me to get this job.”

“I love working with Marty Scorsese, and my relationship has stayed very much intact,” Stone said. “Working with Jimmy Woods, unbelievable. Joe Pesci, who really fought for me to get this job, was great to me… These guys, they mean a lot to me. Nothing would be more exciting to me than to do anything with any of them.”

Stone made similar comments in 2020 during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, when she called the De Niro kiss “the pinnacle” of her kissing history.

“He was the actor that I admired the most and had my whole career,” she said. “I just held him in such extraordinarily high regard.”

“There was so much attached to it,” she continued, “but I was just so madly in love with him that as an actress to start with [that], he probably could have hit me in the head with a hammer and I would have been like, ‘Oh yeah!’ But it was pretty fabulous.”

“I don't know that I could compare anything else to that,” Stone added. “Everything else was kind of like, meh.”

Shocking, really, that an actor would say the most famous kiss of her career involved one of Hollywood’s biggest names. The industry does love a bit of consistency.