Sharon Stone recalls being humiliated by Basic Instinct producer who insisted on calling her ‘Karen’

Sharon Stone has recalled the humiliation she suffered from a Basic Instinct producer who insisted on calling her ‘Karen’.

During her speech at the NYWIFT Muse Awards, Stone described how a line producer started calling her ‘Karen’ during her first audition for the film.

so nervous Stone, who previously spoke about his difficult memories working on the film, had the nickname, later got into a car accident.

The nickname stuck throughout filming and stuck even when she was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Catherine Tramell.

When her name was announced as the nominee, Stone said the room laughed.

‘After 13 other women turned it down and I got the part, after auditioning for nine months. Throughout the movie, the line producer called me Karen, to the point that when I went to my first audition I was so upset I backed my car into a semi.

‘Even at the Governors Ball he still called me Karen. I carried that humiliation deep inside me, even when my name wasn’t on the billboard.

“And when they nominated me for a Golden Globe and they called my name and the room laughed, I carried that humiliation in silence and decided to carry my dignity even stronger.”

Now, Sharon is getting a different kind of reception every time she hears her name called.

“And now when people say my name and say I did the Basic Instinct movie, there’s applause in the room because I broke convention and said women were allowed to cross their legs in a different way. It wasn’t just that we looked up my skirt for a quarter of a second that broke VCR globally.

“We weren’t allowed to see our armpits before Basic Instinct, we weren’t allowed to cross our legs except at the ankle before Basic Instinct. It wasn’t about how many times we said f** before that movie, now we’ve seen Michelangelo’s David statue – firing a teacher.

“I think we should think a lot more about what women can do, a lot more than I did on Basic Instinct, and there are a lot more reasons people are mad at us than that.”

During her speech, Sharon also recalled a rude comment she heard about her body when filming a sex scene for a movie.

‘The Room Laughed’: The nickname stuck throughout filming and stuck even when she was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Catherine Tramell.

Iconic film: Stone starred opposite Michael Douglas in the thriller Basic Instinct

‘When I went to the set there were 300 men and me; my hair and makeup and vanities were male. When I was doing sex scenes, it was all men and me.

“And sometimes I could ask the wardrobe supervisor, who can be a woman, if she wouldn’t mind staying on set while I did that.” When they didn’t clear the set for me to do them, I might have some actor say “can you get out of the way? I can’t see her boobs.”

Sharon’s speech comes several days after she revealed who lost half their money in the recent banking crisis.

The star collapsed at a glittering Hollywood fundraising gala earlier this month when she urged the audience to donate money to a cancer charity.

She told them, ‘I just lost half my money on this banking thing and that doesn’t mean I’m not here.’

Uh-oh: Sharon’s speech comes several days after she revealed she lost half her money in the recent banking crisis

It is unclear which bank Ms Stone, who has a reported fortune of £50m, lost her money to, but the gala she attended, a Women’s Cancer Fund event, took place earlier this month, just a few days after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Firm Bank.

These were the second and third largest bank failures in US history after the Washington Mutual Bank imploded during the 2008 financial crisis.

The US Federal Reserve stepped in to guarantee all deposits held at the two banks, making it unlikely that Ms Stone, who lives in an £18m Beverly Hills house, would lose money .