In an excerpt from her memoir, Sharon Stone opens up about Basic Instinct—and how her most iconic role nearly broke her before making her a star.
Stone and Michael Douglas as Detective Nick Curran.That makes it sound easier than it was. It was not easy. Chuck had to break into the casting director’s office with his credit card and steal the script so we could read it, as no one would give it to us. I knew right away that I wanted to play that part. Chuck then called the director,Total Recalldidn’t want to test with me. Hey, I was a nobody compared to him, and this was such a risky movie.
I stopped working for him that day. Oh, I stayed, I finished the picture. But I made sure I gave every thought to its complete disaster. Why? You can’t shame me. And you will not, should not, even consider shaming my mother.Basic Instinct, I had spent so long coming to the project that I had fully examined the character and the dangerousness of the part. I came to work ready to play Catherine Tramell. Now I was being challenged again.
It seemed I had hit the actor so many times in the chest that he had passed out. I was horrified, naked, and stained with fake blood. And now this. It seemed like there was no line I wouldn’t be asked to skate up to the very edge of to make this film. It wasn’t until we took the movie to Cannes that Michael found out I had already done all those other shit movies. He stood up and made a beautiful toast to me. That moment was so amazing; I was wearing my beach cover-up as an evening gown; people had broken into my room to steal Sharon Stone’s belongings. I was a star and one with no money to buy new clothes. Welcome to Hollywood, honey bun. I went upstairs at this hotel/restaurant and had the dry heaves in the toilet.
I had to find a certain coping mechanism to play that part, with all kinds of resistance around myself and around the film happening simultaneously. The ways that I had learned to disappear inside myself made it possible to disappear inside this character, who was as tough and smooth as the white silk scarf she wore.From Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images.
I think that I am not alone in processing some pent-up female rage. It’s unnerving to know that for me, this rage was so controlled, I think because I was forced to control it for so long, to keep it hidden as though it were my shame. This was the nature of abuse in my era. Everything carried the heavy weight of threat. Not only to me but to those I loved or was supposed to love or whateverthefuck was going on there.
Stone and Christopher Peters attend the Golden Globe Awards in 1993, Stone with her mother in 1992, Stone and Faye Dunaway.I am not hungry for it. People can tell and they like you hungry. Jeez, do they like you hungry. This town is keen for the hunger. It’s like a zoo at feeding time all day long. But Mama’s a big animal, so I guess I could have that hungry look anytime. Maybe I could even have the “I could eat you” look. If you know what I mean.
Thank God it is not that way now. The whole system is changing. The financial burden is real, and the old boys’ club isn’t covering for this anymore. There are more women at the helm, and they aren’t in the pocket of the men, forced to play along or be canned. I loved working for the studios, feeling the tradition of the ones who went before me: Bogie and Bacall, Tracy and Hepburn,Lena Horne, Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. I wanted to be great like they were. I wanted to be a superpro. I wanted every movie to be a hit; I worked my ass off to sell my movies all over the world to make sure they were. I was proud to do it, happy to be a studio girl.
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