RICHARD EDEN: I can be saucy at any age! Sharon Stone hits back after being criticised for recreating her iconic Basic Instinct scene (32 YEARS after starring in the film!)
When Sharon Stone reposted her cross-legged pose from the 1992 film Basic Instinct on social media this month, wearing red lace underwear, she was criticized for being too old for such a racy post.
Now the star, 66, has hit back, telling me: ‘We’re getting older. It’s ridiculous that you’re not supposed to be OK until you’re 20. What the f***.’
Speaking at a charity gala in Cannes, she added: ‘I was getting ready to give a speech about philanthropy. And this is what I was wearing under my clothes. Paris [her stylist] said, ‘Let’s take a picture.’ That wasn’t planned.’
Sharon Stone recreated her crossed-legged pose from the 1992 film Basic Instinct for social media this month
Sharon claimed that the $18 million she had amassed after more than two decades in the film industry had evaporated during the years she recovered from a stroke
Stone said: ‘We’re getting older. It’s ridiculous that you’re not supposed to be OK until you’re 20. What the f***’
In her memoir The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon described angrily slapping her director Paul Verhoeven and walking out of a preview of the erotic thriller after discovering that his assurances that the film would not make it to screens had been a lie and that audiences could watch — as she put it — “all the way to Nebraska.”
Verhoeven has strongly denied her claims that she was surprised by the crossed-legged scene.
He said, ‘Every actress knows what she’s going to see if you ask her to take off her underwear and point the camera at it.’
But the Hollywood veteran is also adamant that she has no regrets about making the film.
“Regrets are like farts, you can’t get them back. Once they’re out, they stink and they’re gone,” she joked earlier.
Sharon claimed that the $18 million she earned in more than two decades in the film industry went up in smoke during the years she was unable to work due to brain damage caused by the stroke.
Stone said it took her seven years to largely recover from the effects of the life-threatening stroke, and doctors estimate her chances of surviving the stroke are only one in 100.
People have taken advantage of me because of that [recovery] “I had saved $18 million from all my success, but when I got back into my bank account, it was all gone.”