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Sharon Stone is reflecting on her role as crime novelist Catherine Tramell in the 1992 movie Basic Instinct
In a new interview with Business Insider, the actress, 67, recalled having the opportunity to remove her infamous leg-crossing scene from the film
“I understood, as the director, not the girl in the film, that that made the movie better,” she said of the controversial scene
Sharon Stone has no regrets.
The actress and film producer, 67, revealed in her Aug. 1 interview with Business Insider that she had the legal right to remove her leg-crossing scene from the 1992 movie, Basic Instinct, but chose not to.
The controversial scene featured Stone — who played the role of crime novelist Catherine Tramell alongside Michael Douglas (Detective Nick Curran) — crossing her legs while being questioned, revealing that she wasn’t wearing underwear.
“I very much believe that none of us knew at the time what we were getting in regard to that shot, and when Paul [Verhoeven] got it, he didn’t want to lose it, and he was scared to show me. And I get that,” Stone recalled to Business Insider.
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“Once I had time to calm down, I didn’t make him take it out of the movie when I had the legal right to,” she told the outlet. “So I did have the chance to do it differently, and I didn’t because once I had the chance to step back, I understood, as the director, not the girl in the film, that that made the movie better.”
Despite having claimed in 2023 that she lost custody of her son following her role in Basic Instinct, Stone revealed in her new interview that she has no hard feelings.
“It made me an icon, but it didn’t bring me respect. But would I do it again? We don’t get to make these choices in life. I don’t participate in the fantasy world in this way,” she told Business Insider.
“What I did with what happened is exactly the way I wanted to do it. Verhoeven and I have a wonderful relationship,” Stone added.
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Stone’s reflection on the hit movie comes after it was revealed that Basic Instinct would be getting a reboot with the film’s original writer Joe Eszterhas in charge of the script.
The 1992 classic follows Tramell (Stone) as she’s implicated in the death of retired rock star Johnny Boz (Bill Cable). Throughout the movie, she has a complicated relationship with Detective Curran (Douglas,80), who is working on her case.
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Stone previously said that making the iconic film took a toll on everyone involved.
“[Paul] Verhoeven [director] ended up in the hospital—his sinus thing ruptured, and he couldn’t stop having a nosebleed,” she told The New Yorker. “There was tremendous pressure on that set.”
“Now people walk around showing their penises on Netflix, but, in the olden days, what we were doing was very new,” she continued. “This was a feature film for a major studio, and we had nudity, sex, homosexuality, all these things that, in my era, were breaking norms.”
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