Sharon Stone Slapped Director After Being Misled About Explicit ‘Basic Instinct’ Scene

Sharon Stone has opened up about her experience filming “Basic Instinct,” revealing that she was misled about her infamous chair scene and had considered taking legal action.

Stone revisited her breakout role in the 1992 movie "Basic Instinct" in her memoir, "The Beauty of Living Twice." In an excerpt published by Vanity Fair Friday, she spoke about her shock at seeing her genitals on the big screen upon watching the final cut of the film.

In the infamous scene, Stone, who played the film’s villain protagonist Catherine Tramell, is sat on a chair wearing a white mini-dress. She crosses her legs several times while talking to a group of men who interrogates her. According to the actress, she had been ordered to take her underwear off but was assured that her private area wouldn't be shown in the movie.

"After we shot 'Basic Instinct,' I got called in to see it,” she wrote in her book. "Not on my own with the director, as one would anticipate, given the situation that has given us all pause, so to speak, but with a room full of agents and lawyers, most of whom had nothing to do with the project."

"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.' Yes, there have been many points of view on this topic, but since I’m the one with the vagina in question, let me say: The other points of view are bulls--t."

Stone knew that the issue didn't matter anymore, but it was a big thing for her because "it was me and my parts up there." She recalled immediately slapping "Basic Instinct" director Paul Verhoeven and calling her lawyer after seeing the scene.

"I went to the projection booth, slapped Paul across the face, left, went to my car, and called my lawyer, Marty Singer. Marty told me that they could not release this film as it was. That I could get an injunction," she revealed.

After she laid out her legal options to him, Verhoeven allegedly told her that she had no choice, but Stone knew he was lying. In the end, she consented to having the scene included in the movie.

"But I did have choices. So I thought and thought and I chose to allow this scene in the film. Why? Because it was correct for the film and for the character; and because, after all, I did it," she wrote.

Stone's "The Beauty of Living Twice" memoir will be released on March 30.