Sharon Stone has revealed that she first saw her infamous crotch shot scene in Basic Instinct in a screening room with agents and lawyers — after being assured that filmgoers wouldn’t see anything when she was asked to remove her underwear.
The 63-year-old movie star has opened up about her experiences as a woman in Hollywood in her new memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, sharing shocking stories about how she was advised to ‘f*** my co-star’ for better onscreen chemistry and repeatedly called the wrong name by a producer.
But perhaps the most startling revelation of all was that Stone’s star-making scene in the 1992 film Basic Instinct was far more explicit than she had anticipated, with the actress claiming .
‘After we shot Basic Instinct, I got called in to see it,’ she wrote in the excerpt published by Vanity Fair. ‘Not on my own with the director, as one would anticipate, given the situation that has given us all pause, so to speak, but with a room full of agents and lawyers, most of whom had nothing to do with the project.
‘That was how I saw my vagina-shot for the first time, long after I’d been told, “We can’t see anything — I just need you to remove your panties, as the white is reflecting the light, so we know you have panties on.”‘
Sharon Stone, 63, has opened up about her experiences as a woman in Hollywood in her new memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, including her infamous crotch shot in Basic Instinct
In a published excerpt, she recalled how she first saw the racy scene (pictured) in a screening room with agents and lawyers — after being promised no one would be able to see anything
In the unforgettable scene, Stone’s femme fatale character — crime writer Catherine Tramell — is being interrogated by the police wearing a form-fitting white mini dress. She is smoking and recounting her sexual encounters when she seductively crosses her legs and flashes the dumbstruck investigators in front of her.
Director Paul Verhoeven has denied that he exploited Stone, claiming that she knew what she was doing in the scene and was into it. However, in her memoir, she stressed that her version of events is the only one worth hearing.
‘Yes, there have been many points of view on this topic, but since I’m the one with the vagina in question, let me say: The other points of view are bulls***,’ she wrote.
‘Now, here is the issue. It didn’t matter anymore. It was me and my parts up there. I had decisions to make. I went to the projection booth, slapped Paul across the face, left, went to my car, and called my lawyer, Marty Singer.’
Stone said Singer told her that they could not release the film as it was, and she could get an injunction to stop it. The lawyer assured her it wasn’t legal for them to shoot up her dress, and for a moment she was relieved, but then she thought about the film and her character.
‘I knew what film I was doing. For heaven’s sake, I fought for that part, and all that time, only this director had stood up for me. I had to find some way to become objective,’ she said.
According to Stone, she confronted Verhoeven with the options Singer had given to her, saying he denied that she had any choices in the matter.
‘But I did have choices. So I thought and thought and I chose to allow this scene in the film,’ she recalled. ‘Why? Because it was correct for the film and for the character; and because, after all, I did it.
‘By the way, you probably don’t recall, but my name wasn’t at the top with Michael Douglas’s on the poster,’ she added.
In Stone’s memoir, she reflected on how little respect she received and how she was deemed ‘difficult’ because she didn’t just do what she was told. Even though she had actor approval in her contract, she said it was always ignored and producers would cast who they wanted, sometimes to her ‘dismay.’
The actress said one producer actually told her to sleep with her co-star to get a scene out of them.
‘I had a producer bring me to his office, where he had malted milk balls in a little milk-carton-type container under his arm with the spout open. He walked back and forth in his office with the balls falling out of the spout and rolling all over the wood floor as he explained to me why I should f*** my costar so that we could have onscreen chemistry,’ she recalled.
‘Why, in his day, he made love to Ava Gardner onscreen and it was so sensational! Now just the creepy thought of him in the same room with Ava Gardner gave me pause. Then I realized that she also had to put up with him and pretend that he was in any way interesting.’
Stone said all she could think about was how the actor in question that they had insisted on couldn’t ‘couldn’t get one whole scene out in the test.’
‘Now you think if I f*** him, he will become a fine actor? Nobody’s that good in bed,’ she noted. ‘I felt they could have just hired a costar with talent, someone who could deliver a scene and remember his lines. I also felt they could f*** him themselves and leave me out of it. It was my job to act and I said so.’
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