"I need you to take off your panties, white reflects light," they told the actress to record the famous scene
Sharon Stone rose to fame for her leg crossing in the movie 'Basic Instinct'. In 1992, the actress starred in the most famous crossover of legs without underwear in the film by Paul Verhoeven.
Now in 2021, in a few days, Sharon Stone's autobiography will be released, entitled 'The Beauty of Living Twice' (The beauty of living twice) where the actress lists the macho and s-xual behaviors she has faced so far. throughout his career.
Vanity Fair magazine has had access to an excerpt from her memoir in which the actress reveals that she was tricked into not wearing underwear in the well-known leg-crossing scene in 'Basic Instinct'.
"I need you to take off your panties, white reflects light"
According to Stone herself, a member of the film's production team told her to take it off on the pretext that her intim-te area would not be visible: "We can't see anything, I just need you to take off your panties, since the white it reflects the light, so I know you have them on," he described in his autobiography.
Sharon Stone also explains that she was called in to visualize the final build of 'Basic Instinct' in "a room full of agents and lawyers, most of whom had nothing to do with the project."
Sharon Stone slapped director Paul Verhoven after seeing the scene
Upon seeing her crossed legs for the first time, Stone slapped director Paul Verhoven across her face and went to the car to call her attorney Marty Singer.
According to the actress in the book, Singer informed her that it was not legal to record her in this way. "I let Paul know the options that Marty had presented to me. Of course, he vehemently denied that I had any options. I was just an actress, just a woman; what options could I have?" recalls Stone.
She had nightmares on the recording of 'Basic Instinct'
However, after thinking about what she could do, Sharon decided to allow that scene to appear "because it was right for the movie and for the character, and because, after all, I did it."
The actress admits that during the recording of the film she had horrible nightmares. "It was terrifying. Do you have any idea how many people have seen Basic Instinct in the last few years? Think about it. It's more than just taking a look at my skirt," writes Stone.
