She may be one of the most recognisable names in Hollywood but Sharon Stone believes people are still ‘terrified’ of her after she became one of films biggest sex symbols
Sharon Stone says people are still terrified of her more than three decades after Basic Instinct turned her into one of Hollywood’s biggest sex symbols.
The actress, 68, believes her performance as Catherine Tramell in the 1992 erotic thriller left people struggling to separate her from the ice-cool character – even when they met her in real life.
She told Variety: “People are still terrified of me in one way or another. I think that the basic construct of a woman declaring herself as separate and indomitable was, and remains, a terrifying construct.” But Sharon insists the image could hardly be further from the truth. She described herself as a “fragile, physically little, delicate, shy, private, loner, gentle, very empathetic artist”.
Posing for the magazine, she nevertheless looked every inch the Hollywood siren in a figure-hugging nude latex halterneck dress with a dramatic white scarf draped around her shoulders.
With her blonde hair swept up and deep red lipstick, Sharon struck a sultry pose for the camera as she showed off the glamorous look.
The star believes part of the reaction to Basic Instinct came from audiences being confronted by a woman on screen who was fiercely independent and impossible to intimidate.
The film catapulted Sharon to global fame, with its notorious police interrogation scene becoming one of the most talked-about moments in Nineties cinema.
Yet the actress, whose career has spanned more than four decades, suggested the part also left her saddled with an image that never reflected the roles she originally imagined herself playing.
Sharon has since appeared in more than 40 films, including Martin Scorsese’s Casino, which earned her a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination.
More recently, she joined the third series of Euphoria, playing a powerful Hollywood executive opposite Sydney Sweeney, 29.
And Sharon could not resist poking fun at the overlap between Sydney’s raunchy screen role and her real-life business ventures.
“In Euphoria, I tried to get [her] character to stop being a cam girl and to come and work for me on the series I was producing,” she said. “She agreed to stop being a cam girl – which she didn’t do. As you can see from Sydney’s new lingerie line, it didn’t take.”
Sharon had previously backed Sydney after her American Eagle “great jeans” campaign sparked controversy over its “jeans/genes” wordplay, with some critics accusing it of echoing eugenics and white supremacist ideals. Sharon said there was nothing wrong with making the most of her looks.
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