Robert Evans was a Pig

In December 2006 Sylvester Stallone told an interesting story about Hollywood producer Robert Evans during an AMA at AintItCool:

"Someone wrote a question about what happened with Robert Evans and THE COTTON CLUB. At the time I was supposed to do it instead of Richard Gere… whoops, here we go again. I was fairly intrigued, but privately my life was in shambles. My marriage was truly on the rocks and there seemed to be no salvaging the situation. So I began dating another woman at that time (who shall remain nameless) and slowly I was feeling better about myself. One afternoon I was invited to Robert Evans’ house to discuss doing the movie. I was completely on board until he said, “I might have something that’ll interest you.” Whereupon he returned with a duffle bag full of X-rated Polaroids. He dumped this mess on the coffee table and burrowing through all these poor actresses that thought they were going to eventually amount to something, he came across a very X-rated Polaroid of the girl I was dating and said, “Hey, look, we have something in common.” I thought blood was going to come out my eyes and felt such loathing at that moment. What was the man thinking? Is this his idea of bonding, by showing me a salacious image of the girl I thought was beyond anything so perverse? Guess not. Without a word, I exited his house and his life. Funny how Polaroids change the course of history."

It's worth noting that Stallone said all that 13 years before the death of Evans.

Last year Sharon Stone made the news when she disclosed that Evans pressured her to have sex with a co-star to improve their on-screen chemistry.

Frankly, this is nothing we didn't already assume; casting couches existed even before the Schenck brothers. However, it does bother me that Robert Evans is still held in high regard - just watch his sympathetic portrayal in The Offer made in 2022, well after the #metoo movement. Harvey Weinstein, on the other hand has literally become unnameable - his collaborators go out of their way to avoid mentioning his involvement in the movies that made them famous. Two weights, two measures.

It's okay to say it: Robert Evans was a disgusting pig.