Sharon Stone Crowns Robert De Niro Hollywood’s Best Kisser

Sharon Stone just reignited the age-old on-screen kissing debate and, honestly, she left no room for a runner-up. She hopped on SiriusXM's Radio Andy on Wednesday, April 1, and named her all-time champion. If you have seen Casino, this probably will not shock you.

'Robert De Niro is the best kisser in the business... kissed me right out of my shoes.'

Stone, 68, wasn’t just being cute about it. She rewound to one specific moment from filming Martin Scorsese’s 1995 Vegas epic, where her hustler character angles De Niro’s Ace Rothstein for cash under the flimsiest pretense: she says she needs to run to the bathroom. He hands over about $50. She gives him a look that basically says, try again. He ups it to roughly $100. She leans in and plants the kiss that, in her words, knocked her flat.

Scorsese called cut, then immediately dangled the offer every actor dreams about: he thought they had the take, but did they want another one anyway? Both Stone and De Niro said yes, absolutely. In the studio, cohosts Andy Cohen and John Hill cracked up. Cohen, 57, could only manage: 'That’s amazing. That’s awesome. Wow.'

• Where she said it: SiriusXM’s Radio Andy (Wednesday, April 1)
• Who: Sharon Stone (68), Robert De Niro (82), Andy Cohen (57), John Hill
• The movie memory: Casino (1995), directed by Martin Scorsese; the bathroom-money hustle leading to The Kiss

If you are feeling deja vu, you are not wrong. Stone already crowned De Niro the GOAT of movie makeouts on Watch What Happens Live back in 2020 when a caller asked her to name the best and worst kissers she has worked with. She said he was far and away the best, and then explained why: De Niro was the actor she idolized most, and her career-long fantasy was simply to sit across a table from him and hold her own. That kiss carried all of that for her. She admitted she was flat-out infatuated at the time, joked he could have clocked her with a hammer and she would have still been thrilled to be in the same room, and wrapped it with the kind of verdict that ends the conversation: the experience was fabulous, and everything else, by comparison, was kind of... meh.

Translation: Sharon Stone’s cinematic-kiss power rankings have a permanent No. 1, and it is Robert De Niro by a mile.