March 1995Photograph By Firooz Zahedi

A few months before Stone delivered the performance of her career in Casino, she lit up the screen in a Western called The Quick and the Dead. When she agreed to pose for an Esquire cover story, she insisted that her horse be flown to Arizona for the shoot. She also chose her own wardrobe. Then she demanded that Esquire’s reporter get naked, before asking, “Am I scaring you yet?”