SHARON STONE - STONE: 'NEW MOVIE CHALLENGED MY PERCEPTION OF DEPRESSION'

Actress SHARON STONE found playing a depressed woman in new movie WHEN A MAN FALLS IN THE FOREST "a watershed experience", because it challenged the way she thinks about clinical depression. The 48-year-old plays a middle-aged lady who takes up shoplifting as a result of feeling isolated. Speaking at the Berlin Film Festival today (12FEB07), Stone said, "Everybody goes through times in their lives when they feel like they're disappearing, when they feel like no one is seeing them or hearing them. I certainly think that it's prevalent in middle age. "(Making the film) was a watershed experience. I think that we live in a Prozac society where we're always told we're supposed to have this kind of equilibrium of emotion. We have all these assignments about how we're supposed to feel about something."