During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Friday, Italian director, Pupi Avati slammed Emmy award-winning actress Sharon Stone for her "diva" behavior and demands while filming Avati's film, "Golden Boy," which hits Italy's theaters on Thursday, The Huffington Post reports.

Avati revealed that while writing the script for "Golden Boy," he envisioned Stone starring in the movie. However, when he reached out to Stone's reps to negotiate contracts, the actress submitted what Avati describes as a "ridiculous" set of demands.

"A correspondence started, enough to write a book, between her agents and our lawyers. It was a negotiation that bordered on ridiculousness, concerning embarrassing details, as if Italy was a third world country. By the way, we do have electricity in Italy," he said.

Despite her demands "that bordered on ridiculousness," Avati and Stone came to an agreement and proceeded to film the movie. But as filming went on, Stone continued to display diva-like behavior.

"Then, step-by-step, she started to feel more and more like Sharon Stone," Avati said. "On this rented train, everybody asked to take a picture with her. And when we arrived at the Tiburtina train station [in Rome] there were already about 30 photographers. We brought her to the most luxurious suite of the Hassler Hotel. The next day on set there were more than 200 paparazzi. There her ego definitively inflated. It is the classic pattern with these American actresses who are slightly declining."

Avati later recalled a time when Stone refused to film because she felt there were too many photographers and cameramen on set.

"She immediately disappeared. We looked for her everywhere, but nothing!" Avati said. "Then my brother received a phone call from Los Angeles from her manager: She wouldn't come back on the set until the photographers and especially that damned TV cameramen had gone away. Obviously we did so and she, like nothing happened, shot the scene. The thing that I found most absurd is that she had to call to the States and to close herself in a car, instead of coming to ask us directly."

However, despite Stone's difficult behavior, Avati revealed that he might want to work with Stone again. Stone's reps also reached out to THR insisting that Avati's claims regarding Stone's behavior are false.

"None of this is true. Ms. Stone is the consummate professional," Stone's reps told THR.