Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas’ chemistry was so fiery in the movie Basic Instinct that they were once alleged to have had a relationship. Michael Douglas has recently dismissed the buzz, and mentioned that he was head-over-heels in love with Jeanne Tripplehorn during that time, while people continued to think he was having an affair with Sharon.
Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas were the leads of the 1992 neo-noir erotic thriller, Basic Instinct, which was directed by Paul Verhoeven. The film brought immense fame to Sharon; however, her bold scenes and nudity became a wide topic of discussion. While Sharon Stone gained immense fame with her role in Basic Instinct, it caused personal issues for her, something that broke her heart into pieces.
Sharon Stone lost custody of her child for her bold scene in Basic Instinct
Sharon Stone got married to investigative reporter and executive editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, Phil Bronstein, in 1998. Two years later, the couple decided to adopt. They welcomed their adopted son, Roan Joseph Bronstein, into their family in 2000.
Three years later, Bronstein filed for divorce from Sharon, which was finalized in 2004. What grabbed attention was the custody battle between the duo, which was a long-standing one. Finally, the custody was given to Phil, a decision that Sharon said was influenced by her bold scenes in the movie, Basic Instinct.
Yes! Speaking to Bruce Bozzi, Sharon Stone revealed that her movie, Basic Instinct, was actually one of the reasons that she lost the custody battle. The actress went on to share how the judge asked her son if he knew that his mom used to make sex movies. Sharon could be quoted as saying:
“I lost custody of my child. When the judge asked my child — my tiny little boy, ‘Do you know your mother makes sex movies?’ Like, this kind of abuse by the system — that I was considered what kind of parent I was, because I made that movie.”
Sharon Stone felt ‘humiliated’ when her name was called during the Golden Globes Awards for Basic Instinct
Sharon Stone played an antiheroine in the movie, Basic Instinct, and she got the role after auditioning for almost nine months. Several actresses rejected the role because of its explicit themes and nude, bold scenes; however, Stone did a proper justice to the role, and with her skills, she turned her character into one of pop culture’s iconic figures, earning a Golden Globe nomination.
When her name was called as a nominee at the Golden Globe Awards, her peers laughed at her. The actress was humiliated, so much so that she just wanted to ‘crawl inside of a hole’.
Sharon Stone was reportedly paid USD 500K for her role in the movie, while Michael Douglas was paid USD 14 million. For the unversed, a few-second nude scene led her to lose the custody battle, but she was not aware of it and was misled during the shoot.
Sharon Stone, in her 2021 memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, revealed that she was asked to remove her underwear. The actress was told that, as her underwear was white, it was reflecting on the camera, hindering the shoot. Sharon later got to know about her nude shot only during the screening. According to her:
“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.’ Now, here is the issue. It didn’t matter anymore. It was me and my parts up there. I had decisions to make.”
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