Sharon Stone is talking about her experiences in Hollywood.
In your next memoirs, The beauty of living twice, the 63-year-old actress writes about the story behind her iconic and explicit scene in 1992 Basic instinct, in which Stone’s vagina was exposed during a scene in which her character, Catherine Tramell, is questioned by the police.
In an excerpt from the book published by Vanity Fair, the actress writes about the first time she saw the now infamous scene – and her surprise at its explicit nature. Regarding the experience, Stone writes:
“After filming Basic Instinct, I was called to see. Not alone with the director, as might be expected, 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. That’s how I saw my shot in the vagina for the first time, long after they told me, “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.” Yes , there have been many points of view on this subject, but since I am the one with the vagina in question, let me say: the other points of view are bullshit.
Now, here’s the problem. 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 on the face, got out, went to my car and called my lawyer, Marty Singer. Marty told me that they couldn’t release the movie as it was. That I could get an injunction. First of all, at that time, that would give the film an X rating. Remember that it was 1992, not now, when we see erect penises on Netflix. And, Marty said, according to the Screen Actors Guild, my union, it was not legal to inject my dress that way. Wow, I thought.”
Ultimately, Stone, who fought hard for his role in Basic instinct, decided to allow the scene to be included in the film.
“Well, that was my first thought,” she wrote. “So I thought a little more. What if I was the director? What if I got that scene? What if I got it on purpose? Or by accident? What if it just existed? That was a lot to think about. I knew what movie I was doing it. For God’s sake, I fought for that part, and all this time, only this director defended me. I had to find a way to become objective. It had taken me so long to get to the project that I had thoroughly examined. the character and the dangerousness of the role. I came to work ready to play Catherine Tramell. Now I was being challenged again. ”
In the excerpt, Stone also reveals that the producers of other projects pressured her to have sex with fellow cast members, apparently to increase her on-screen chemistry.
“I had the actor’s approval in my contract. Nobody cared. They escalated who they wanted. To my dismay, sometimes. To my dismay, sometimes. I asked a producer to take me to his office, where he had marbles. of milk in a small milk carton container under the 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 wooden floor while explaining to me why I should fuck my back so we could have chemistry on the screen. Why, in his day, he made love to Ava Gardner on the screen and it was so amazing! Now, just the scary thought of him in the same room with Ava Gardner stopped me. I realized that she also had to put up with him and pretend that he was interesting in some way.
I watched the chocolate balls roll and thought: You insisted on this actor when he couldn’t make a whole scene in the audition … Now, do you think that if I have sex with him, he will become a great actor? No one is so good in bed. I thought they could have just hired a talented co-actor, someone who could make a scene and remember their lines. I also felt that they could fuck him themselves and leave me out of it. It was my job to act and I said that.
This was not a popular response. I was considered difficult.
Of course, you don’t know who my colleague is; he was perplexed enough without me confusing him any more. But he did some random passes for me over the next few weeks, I’m sure he was spurred on by this genius.
Other producers from other films came to my trailer and asked, ‘So, are you going to have sex with him or not? (…) You know it would be better if you did it. ‘I take my time and explain that I am like the nice girl they grew up with, and make them remember that girl’s name. This leaves us with a little of our dignity. “
Stone’s Memories, The beauty of living twice was released on March 30 and is available for pre-order now on Amazon.
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