"It Made Me an Icon": Sharon Stone on Her Infamous 'Basic Instinct' Leg-Crossing Scene

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Sharon Stone will always be remembered as the definitive femme fatale of the cinema of the nineties thanks to the intense collection of erotic thrillers in which she participated, but above all by a very concrete scene in the best of them all: the cross of legs, without underwear, of her character Catherine Tramell during the interrogation of Basic Instinct (1992), directed by Paul Verhoeven.In a recent interview with Business Insider, the actre…

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Few doubt that the most famous cross of legs in the history of cinema is the one made by Sharon Stone (Pensilvania, 67) in Basic Instinct (1992). It lasts just a couple of seconds, and the film turned the actress into a sex symbol and a Hollywood star. But that iconic moment might not have occurred for two main reasons that the performer has now revealed. One has to do with her interpretive talent of the time, and the other with the male protago…