Sharon Stone appeared on “CBS Mornings” (via The Daily Beast) to promote her upcoming role in “Euphoria” Season 3, widely regarded as one of the raciest shows on TV. But the Oscar nominee has a bone to pick with modern media when it comes to sex scenes and nudity, mainly that it has all become too “blatant” and “harsh” on screen. Stone now turns off sex scenes when they happen because they no longer leave anything to the imagination.
“It wasn’t even an entire frame of film,” Stone said of her infamous nude scene in 1992’s “Basic Instinct,” which ignited a media firestorm. “And, so, people were desperately trying to figure it out. And I think that idea of, ‘Oh my God.’ This hope, this wonder, this mystery, this intrigue, this yearning is something that is what all of our profound sexuality is based in.”
“So often now, when sex scenes come on TV, I fast-forward. I don’t want to see it,” Stone continued. “I don’t want to have to go through all of this blatant, harsh sexuality. For me, it steals from my own imagination. And I prefer my yearning, mystery, desire. I want to keep that alive inside myself.”
“Basic Instinct” turned Stone into a movie star and an international sex symbol. In her 2021 memoir, “The Beauty of Living Twice,” Stone revealed she was misled into appearing nude in the movie. She had no idea about the nude scene until she saw a screening of the film alongside agents and lawyers.
“That was how I saw my vagina-shot for the first time, long after I’d been told, ‘We can’t see anything — I just need you to remove your panties, as the white is reflecting the light, so we know you have panties on,’” Stone wrote in the memoir. “Now, here is the issue. It didn’t matter anymore. It was me and my parts up there. I had decisions to make.”
Stone added that she went to the projection booth and confronted “Basic Instinct” director Paul Verhoeven by slapping him across the face.
Variety reported last month that Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists and Scott Stuber have acquired the rights to a reboot of “Basic Instinct,” with the original film’s writer Joe Eszterhas returning to pen the script. Stone threw shade at the project when it was announced by saying: “Go ahead. Good fucking luck!”
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