Sharon Stone said she was tricked into not wearing underwear in a famous scene from 'Basic Instincts'

In The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon Stone's new memoir, the actress takes a hard look at Hollywood's sexual predators, her career, and a memorable scene from the film Low Instinct (1992).

While she praises some movie executives and co-stars, especially her co-star Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct, Stone said an anonymous producer pressured her into having sex with a male co-star in a movie to help save the film. .

In an excerpt from her book, which will be in bookstores and on sale online starting March 30, the Sliver and Casino star details a series of unsavory sexual harassment experiences she's endured over her four-decade career. her.

The 63-year-old actress says in the caption that she was "nobody" in Hollywood before making Low Instinct and she explained how hard she fought to get the role.

"It was my 18th movie. For years, I'd been beaten up doing a bunch of shitty movies and regular TV, back in the day when TV didn't rule everything. I was 32 when I got that job. I told my agent that if they let me in through that door, I would get the job. I knew this was the last chance, I was getting old in the business I hadn't gotten into yet," he recalls in the book whose first excerpt can be read on the specialized site Vanity Fair.

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Regarding the famous scene in which her character strategically spreads her legs while she is being questioned by the police, she assured that she chose to do it because she "was right for the movie."

“I was just an actress, just a woman, what options could I have? But he had options. So I thought and thought and decided to allow this scene in the movie. Why? Because it was right for the movie and the character; and because, after all, I did it,” Stone said.

Anyway, in the book she details how she was tricked into taking off her underwear and exposing – at least for an instant – her private parts. According to her testimony, the actress saw the finished scene for the first time when attending the screening of the final cut of the tape, in a room surrounded by people.

"That's how I saw the shot of my vagina for the first time, long after they told me: 'We can't see anything, I just need you to take off your underwear, since white reflects light, so I know you have them. put on”, he recounts in his book.

“Yes, there have been many opinions on this topic, but since I am the one with the vagina in question, I want to say that the other opinions are bullshit,” she adds.

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