Hollywood actor Sharon Stone has made some startling revelations in her memoir, 'The Beauty of Living Twice'. The actor revealed that she was tricked into the controversial leg-crossing scene in the movie Basic Instinct, by director Paul Verhoeven.
In the 1992 neo-noir thriller, Stone had played crime novelist Catherine Tramell, suspected of murder.
An extract from the memoir, published in Vanity Fair reads: "After we shot Basic Instinct, I got called in to see it. 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.” 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 bullshit."
The actor said the first time she went to meet the director Verhoeven, he kept calling her Karen, and told her, "You were not our first choice, Karen. No, you were not even the second or the third. You were the thirteenth choice for this film.”
"He continued to call me Karen all through the making and postproduction of the movie," she writes.
She writes that she was once asked to sleep with a co-star to have better chemistry, by a producer. "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 fuck my costar so that we could have onscreen chemistry."
