It stars Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, Don Rickles, Kevin Pollak, and James Woods. An ode to Sharon Stone in Casino as Ginger Mckenna, a tour de force showcase of female power at the epicentre of masculinity and excess. Sharon Stone plays the psychotic Ginger, a once-in-a-lifetime role in that it was the only time in my life I could bear to watch her on film. Film legend Martin Scorsese directs Robert De Niro in this tale about the rise and fall of a Las Vegas gangster. In earlys Las Vegas, low-level mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro) gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. The film was the eighth collaboration between director Scorsese. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky. In particular, it draws from. Ace Rothstein: Now you need approval from him to go home? Ginger: So what? So who fucking blew you in the parking lot before you came in, huh? On the surface, "Casino" is a neon-lit, stylish retread of Martin Scorsese's earlier work in the gangster genre. The supporting. Sharon Stone earned an Academy Award nomination. . The legendary Hollywood actor Sharon Stone looks back at the opulent costuming of Ginger in Martin Scorsese's Las Vegas masterpiece Casino.