SHARON BACK TO 'BASIC' AT 61!
Doubts they'd film it today
There’s nothing basic about Sharon Stone.
The Oscar-nominated actress looks jaw-dropping at 61 in this cover shoot for Allure’s November issue — where she reveals she doesn’t think her 1992 cult classic, “Basic Instinct,” could be made today.
“I think ‘Basic Instinct’ was made at the exact right moment in history because it captured all our fears and doubts and the moment of change of power for women,” Stone tells the mag.
“I doubt that it would have any form of the sensationalism it had at the time.”
The erotic thriller, about a detective (Michael Douglas) who becomes involved with the suspect (Stone) in his murder investigation, shocked audiences with an iconic scene in which Stone flashes an interrogation room full of men by uncrossing her legs.
“When I began my career, there were only two ways we were allowed to sit: cross at the ankles or ankles under the chair,” she quipped.
Still, despite her sex-symbol status, Stone wasn’t always comfortable with her body.
“When I was younger, everybody was telling me what was wrong with my body — too this, too that,” she said.
“When I got on ‘Basic Instinct,’ they hired a makeup artist that put on pounds of makeup every day, and every day I went to my trailer and took the makeup off.
“But I wasn’t allowed to choose my makeup artist, nor was my name [above the title] on the poster.”
She says she loves her body now and is grateful for it.
“I started to understand that I was going to go for being more like a European woman who got more beautiful with age and who could understand that women are more beautiful than girls because they know something,” Stone said.
On her favorite age, Stone said her 40s “were so beautiful” despite challenges like recovering from a brain injury, a custody battle and struggling to find film roles.
“But there was something wonderful in that period of all those challenges,” she said. “It was my period of the biggest change, but the period where I thought I was the most beautiful.”