VShe footwork made famous the American actress, who was 34 at the time, but above all was a traumatic experience for her. This is what she tells in particular in her Memoirs, entitled “The Beauty of Living Twice” (Robert Laffont), released on 1er April.
Sharon Stone, 63 years old today, explains that the director Paul Verhoeven encouraged her to remove her underwear for the scene, while certifying that her crotch would not appear on the screen. A broken promise. This episode illustrates the delicate journey of the Hollywood star, long locked in this image of a blonde on duty with beautiful legs.
Five years before a first praise
And this from March 5, 1986, day when the name of Sharon Stone is invited for the first time in the pages of World. The debutant actress, described as “A pretty intrepid blonde”, shares the poster with Richard Chamberlain in Allan Quatermain and the mines of King Solomon, by Jack Lee Thompson. A pastiche ofIndiana Jones which does not really convince the journalist Colette Godard. However, she notes a detail: “Sharon Stone is dressed in Bermuda shorts – as we will wear as soon as the weather permits – which taper down to the little high-cut shorts. “ The legs of the actress are already highlighted, as a taste of the phenomenon Basic Instinct.
This “Sex thriller” opened the Cannes Film Festival in 1992. The beginning of a long history between Sharon Stone and this meeting of international cinema. The film does not provoke “The expected scandal”, according to Danièle Heymann, special correspondent in Cannes for The world. “It’s Nick, the cop / Faced with basic instinct / A beautiful hysterical / In a paroxysmal thriller / More exotic than erotic”, she attacks in her article published on May 9, 1992. The journalist will retain only one cult scene “Rather violent vulgarity”, while regretting “So much money, misguided energy, such beautiful breasts (those of Sharon Stone), so stupidly exposed in a bazaar psyshow, touting and unhealthy”.
The actress will have to wait five years before receiving praise from the World. Meanwhile, Sharon Stone is talking about her for another erotic thriller (Sliver, by Philip Noyce), his role in Casino, by Martin Scorsese (without the journalist in charge of criticism really stopping on his performance), or his Honorary Cesar awarded by Jeanne Moreau in 1997.
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