Fifty-year-old US actress Sharon Stone has made a success in becoming the center of public attention—not with her new film, but with the inhumane remarks concerning the May 12 earthquake in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else,” Stone said. “And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”
Stone made the remarks at the Cannes Film Festival last week, leading to pledges by many Chinese mainland and Hong Kong cinemas to not show her films again.
The Beijing Times on Wednesday quoted Ng See-Yuen, founder of the UME Cineplex chain, as saying that from now on, no film featuring Stone would be shown in any UME cinema in Hong Kong and the mainland.
Meanwhile, Shanghai’s Boku Bookstore decided to withdraw all video works with Stone from the shelves and pledged not to import any Stone-starred films. A publicity manager with the bookstore condemned Stone as an irresponsible public figure in the entertainment circle to have made such remarks that would hurt the Chinese people. The bookstore also urged all bookstores in the country to ban imports of Stone videos.
The Beijing Times also reported that French fashion house Christian Dior declared on Thursday that it has dropped Sharon Stone from its Chinese advertisements.
Being under fire, Stone decided to bow her head. According to a report from the Associated Press, Stone models for Christian Dior SA, and the company’s Shanghai office issued a statement from the actress on Wednesday, saying she was “deeply sorry” for causing anguish and anger among Chinese people with her remarks last week.
“Due to my inappropriate words and acts during the interview, I feel deeply sorry and sad about hurting Chinese people,” Stone said in the statement. “I am willing to take part in the relief work of China’s earthquake, and wholly devote myself to helping affected Chinese people.”
Although actress Sharon Stone has apologized for her “karma” comments on the May 12 quake in China, many in the country say they’ll never forgive her.
Lots of Chinese netizens have jointly said “no” to downloading films featuring Stone, adding they will permanently remove her from their memory.
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