Sharon Stone, sizzling at 60
Sharon Stone is on a roll, with a new man, a new movie and a new lease of life
SHE’S never been shy about putting herself out there – from that famous legcrossing scene in Basic Instinct to a sizzling nude magazine photoshoot when she was 57.
And now she’s turned 60, screen siren Sharon Stone has done it again, marking the milestone by stripping down and posing for a bondagestyle lingerie photoshoot.
Who can blame her? This is a woman who came perilously close to death 17 years ago but who clawed her way back to the top. Now, with a body that puts many women half her age to shame and a saucy self-confidence to match, the bombshell has demonstrated once again she’s a force to be reckoned with.
In a recent Instagram post to promote her latest movie, All I Wish, Sharon oozes sex appeal. Clad in a string bikini top, her blonde locks in a tousled side braid, she looks toned, tanned and carefree.
“Women don’t always have to act like a princess who sits on a sofa, wears nineinch heels and acts like a viper,” she captioned the photo, quoting Senna, her character in the romcom.
Sharon is well suited to the role of the free-spirited yet struggling fashion designer whose life is spiralling out of control as she jumps between jobs and onenight stands while battling crippling credit card debt.
Then everything changes when she meets Adam (played by Tony Goldwyn) at her 46th birthday party. Has she finally met her soulmate?
When Sharon first saw the script she was asked to play the mother of the film’s then 25-year-old female lead – a young woman who was struggling to get her act together. But the Oscar nominee had other ideas. She called Susan Walter, the filmmaker, and told her it would be more interesting if she played the daughter, and a much older one at that.
“I just didn’t feel that having a 25-yearold who didn’t have her life together was that perilous,” she told Vanity Fair.
According to Walter, Sharon told her, “Just let these characters be vibrant, alive and sexy. Show people in their forties and fifties doing amazing things and audiences will subconsciously take that on.”
There’s no doubt Sharon is as beguiling now as when she made the world sit up in her career-defining role in Basic Instinct opposite Michael Douglas in 1992.
As the manipulative man-eater Catherine Tramell she made cinematic history with that leg-crossing scene – which for the time was way out there.
“If I believed that sexy was trying to be who I was when I did Basic Instinct then we’d all be having a hard day today,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in 2015 in an article accompanying ravishing nude portraits of her.
“I’m aware that my a** looks like a bag of flapjacks but I’m not trying to be the best-looking broad in the world. At a certain point you start asking yourself, ‘What really is sexy?’ It’s not just the elevation of your boobs. It’s being present and having fun and liking yourself.”