Sharon Stone confesses stage director deception showing her vagina in "Low Instincts"
Sharon Stone also reveals that, for other tapes, she was asked to have sex to have "more on-screen chemistry."
On Wednesday, March 30, the American actress, producer and model, Sharon Stone, will launch her memoir The Beauty of Living Twice. The book will be a review of her career, where she will confess intimate and little-known episodes, directly from the artist's pen.
One of the publication's most moving chapters is the actress's revelation of her role in "Low Instincts." In this 1992 film, co-starring with Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone plays an erotic writer, Catherine Tramell, who is the most likely murderer for a murder in San Francisco, USA.
At the time of its premiere, the film caused great controversy for a scene where Stone appears in an interrogation and without underwear, she lets detectives who are interviewing her see her vagina.
Sharon Stone talks about her experiences in Hollywood
Upon recording that scene, Sharon Stone reveals in her memoir about the first time she saw the explicit scene.
From the experience, and according to an extract published by Vanity Fair magazine, Stone confesses:
"After filming 'Low Instincts', they called me to see the tape. Not just the director, unsurprisingly, but a room full of agents and lawyers, most of whom had nothing to do with the project. This is how I saw the scene of my vagina for the first time, long after I was told: "We can't see anything, I just need you to take off your panties, since white reflects light, so we know you have panties". Yes, there have been many views on this topic (in terms of cinematography), but since I am the one with the vagina in question, let me tell you: the other views suck.
Now here is the problem. It no longer mattered (what I thought). It was me and my parts up there. He had to make decisions. I went to the projection booth, slapped Paul Verhoeven (the director) and left. I went to my car and called my attorney, Marty Singer.
Marty told me they couldn't release this movie the way he was. That he could get a court order. First, at the time, this would give the movie an X rating. Remember this 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 shoot my dress this way. Wow, I thought.
Why then did it turn out like this in the movie? The actress finally decided to allow the scene. However, she also adds what I thought at the time and that explains her decision.
"Well, that was my first thought (not allowing the vagina scene in the movie)," she writes in her preview.
Then I thought a little more. What if I was the director? Did you get the scene on purpose? Or by accident? I knew what movie he was making. For the love of God, I fought for that role, and all that time, only this director had defended me. He had to find some way to be objective. I had already fully examined the character and the dangerousness of the role. I came to work ready to play Catherine Tramell, but now she was being challenged again, "she adds.
Another confession: It was "okay" to have sex with co-stars to "increase on-screen chemistry."
In the preview excerpt for The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon Stone also reveals that the producers of other projects pressured her into having sex with male co-stars.
The reason? Apparently that increased the chemistry on screen.
«I had the approval of the actor in my contract. Nobody cared. One time a producer took me to his office, where he was explaining to me why I should fuck my co-star so we could have on-screen chemistry. Why, at the time, when they made love on screen with Ava Gardner… it was sensational! Now… just the creepy idea of him in the same room with Ava Gardner got me thinking. Then I realized that I also had to put up with it and pretend it was interesting in some way.
«You insisted on choosing this actor when he couldn't even get a whole scene out of the casting… and now you think that if I fuck him, he will become a good actor? Nobody is that good in bed. I felt like they could have hired a talented co-star, someone who could put on a scene and remember his lines. I also felt that they could fuck him themselves and leave me on the sidelines. It was my job to act and I said so. This was not a popular response. I was considered difficult.
“Other producers of other movies also showed up for my trailer to ask me, 'So, are you going to fuck him or not? … You know it would be better if you did. ' Then my response was to explain to them that I am like the nice girl they grew up with, and I make them remember that girl's name. This leaves us all with a little of our dignity.
