Sharon Stone and Keke Palmer’s chemistry is electric from the second they meet — they start gabbing well before the cameras begin rolling and keep going after the director calls “cut,” exchanging phone numbers and making plans to dine and work together. Stone, who is 68 and has been an industry icon since 1992’s “Basic Instinct,” fittingly plays a powerful Hollywood producer in Season 3 of HBO’s “Euphoria.” Thirty-two-year-old Palmer stars in Peacock’s serialized remake of the 1989 Tom Hanks film “The ’Burbs,” playing a mom for the first time since becoming one herself. Candid and wizened from their decades-long careers, they become fast friends as they discuss their rural upbringings and rail against the patriarchy — starting with their experiences as single moms.
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Sharon Stone: It’s so hard.
Keke Palmer: Especially solo. I have a lot of support, but I’m just saying.
Stone: I did solo. I adopted three boys.
