Stone remembers watching the interrogation scene for the first time. “After filming Basic Instinct, I was called to see it. Not alone with the director, as you would expect, given the situation that made us all hesitate, so to speak, but with a room full of agents and lawyers, most of whom had nothing to do with the project “, she wrote.
“That’s how I saw my vagina shoot for the first time, long after I was told, ‘We can’t see anything – I just need you to take off your panties, because the white is reflecting the light, so we know you’re in your panties.’ ”
According to Stone, she “went to the projection booth, slapped (director) Paul (Verhoeven) on the face, left, went to my car and called my lawyer, Marty Singer”.
While the 63-year-old star, who played the suspected murderer Catherine Tramell, acknowledges that there are “many points of view on this issue”, she says that, like “the one with the vagina … the other points are bullshit t. ”
After consulting with her lawyer, Stone said, she ended up choosing not to seek an injunction on the controversial scene, according to the Vanity Fair excerpt. “Why? Because it was correct for the film and for the character; and because, after all, I did it,” she wrote.
Verhoeven previously denied that Stone did not allow his groin to be filmed when she crossed and uncrossed her legs.
“Sharon is lying,” he told ICON in 2017. “Any actress knows what she is going to see if you ask her to take off her panties and point there with the camera.”
A Verhoeven representative declined to comment on Friday.
Stone’s memoirs also detail some of the sexual harassment she has faced throughout her career – specifically being advised by a producer to sleep with a castmate to improve her “on-screen chemistry”.
“I thought they could have just hired a talented co-star, someone who could make a scene and remember their lines.”