AT 59, SHARON STONE IS MAKING HER BIG COMEBACK

When Sharon Stone presented at this year’s Golden Globes, it was an announcement that the Basic Instinct star — whose uncrossing of her legs during a San Francisco police interrogation on-screen made men hit the pause button on their remotes 25 years ago — was back.

Wearing a sleek, black, floorlength, fitted dress with sheer, geometric cutouts by a daring Brazilian designer, Vitor Zerbinato, her shorn blonde hair swept back off her face, she dazzled the crowd.

“His was the first dress I tried on. It fit like a dream. The netting, the sheer part of it, was the right colour,” she says.

Not bad for an actress turning 60 in March, but especially remarkable considering that, in 2001, Stone suffered a stroke and subsequent cerebral haemorrhage that lasted nine days and left her temporarily unable to read, among other difficulties.

“Me and Cher. We’re cockroaches,” she tells The Post.

Stone has flown to New York from her comfy LA home, once owned by Montgomery Clift, to promote her new HBO series, Mosaic. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, it’s a six-part tale of romantic deception and foul play. Stone plays successful children’s book author Olivia Lake, whose trophy home in Utah ski country puts her in the crosshairs of a very insistent conman (Frederick Weller). Complicating matters are Lake’s unrequited feelings for an aspiring artist (Garrett Hedlund) she regrets offering to mentor.

It’s a complex character that allows Stone, an Oscar nominee for the Martin Scorsese film Casino, a chance to show off her range, which has sometimes been overshadowed by her bombshell credentials.

“I think she’s a great character and he’s a great director,” says Stone, who calls Lake “imaginative,” with “the ability to make something happen”.

“People gravitate toward that. In the case of Garrett’s character, he wants to be a better artist and admires Olivia as an artist. With Fred’s character, she has the ability to stay with him, while a part of her really did understand there was a bit of a conman to him. I think she also understood the broken part of him. That’s [what] makes him love her.”

In person, Stone gives off a patrician air, with her steel-blue eyes and aquiline profile. But once she warms up, she becomes extremely candid, especially when it comes to discussing some of her leading men.