When Sharon Stone reprised her crossed-legs pose from 1992 film Basic Instinct for social media this month, while wearing red lace underwear, she was criticised for being too old for such a saucy post.
Now the star, 66, has hit back, telling me: ‘We get to grow older. It’s ridiculous that you’re only supposed to be OK when you’re 20. What the f***.’
Speaking at a Cannes charity gala, she adds: ‘I was getting ready to give a speech about philanthropy. And this is what I was wearing under my clothes. Paris [her stylist] said, ‘Let’s take a photograph’. It wasn’t planned.’
Sharon Stone reprised her crossed-legs pose from 1992 film Basic Instinct for social media this month
Sharon claimed the $18 million she had accrued after more than two decades in the film industry evaporated during the years she was recovering from a stroke
Stone said: ‘We get to grow older. It’s ridiculous that you’re only supposed to be OK when you’re 20. What the f***’
In her memoir The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon described how she slapped her director Paul Verhoeven in fury and walked out of a preview of the erotic thriller after discovering his assurances that it wouldn’t show up on screen had been a lie and that the audience could — as she put it — ‘see all the way to Nebraska’.
For his part, Verhoeven has vehemently dismissed her claims that she was taken by surprise in the leg-crossing scene.
He said: ‘Any actress knows what she’s going to see if you ask her to take off her underwear and point there with the camera.’
But the Hollywood veteran has also been adamant she didn’t have any regrets about making the film.
‘Regrets are like farts, you can’t get them back. Once they’re out, there’s stinky and gone,’ she quipped previously.
Sharon claimed the $18 million she had accrued after more than two decades in the film industry evaporated during the years she was unable to work due to brain damage from the stroke.
Stone said it took her seven years to mostly recover from the effects of the life-threatening stroke, which doctors gave her just one in 100 odds of surviving.
‘People took advantage of me over that [recovery] time,’ Stone claimed. ‘I had $18 million saved because of all my success, but when I got back into my bank account, it was all gone.’
