US actress Sharon Stone tells all in her latest memoir
(Picture: Getty Images for IMDb)US actress Sharon Stone has revealed how she was tricked into appearing without underwear in her iconic Hollywood drama, Basic Instinct.
The 63-year-old star described the betrayal in her new book, The Beauty of Living Twice, where she speaks openly about her life as an actress.
The deeply revealing memoir also touches on her experiences with being pressured by directors to sleep with male co-stars for better “chemistry.”
In the book, Stone said she was told to remove her “panties” while on set for Basic Instinct because they were “reflecting the light” during filming.
She said she was assured that no one could see “anything.”
But she later discovered during a preview of the drama that was in fact a lie and - as she put it in a 2006 interview - viewers could see all the way to Nebraska.
In the Beauty Of Living Twice, an excerpt of which has appeared in Vanity Fair, she said: “It was me and my parts up there. I had decisions to make. I went to the projection booth, slapped [director] Paul [Verhoeven] across the face, left, went to my car, and called my lawyer, Marty Singer.
“After the screening, I let Paul know of the options Marty had laid out for me. Of course, he vehemently denied that I had any choices at all. I was just an actress, just a woman; what choices could I have?”
Verhoeven has denied these claims.
