The actress’s memoir continues to offer a tricky image of Hollywood in which, not without suffering, she managed to find a place for herself.
The Beauty of Living Twice ‘, the memoir of the brilliant Sharon Stone, continues to offer headlines of all kinds. In addition to discovering that he paid Leonardo DiCarpio’s salary in ‘Fast and Deadly’ (Sam Raimi, 1995) and discovering the pressure from the producers to sleep with some of his co-stars, many of the anecdotes lead us directly to ‘ Basic instinct ‘(Paul Verhoeven, 1992), one of the jewels of his filmography.
On the one hand, the actress underlines her version of events about the famous crossing of her legs: Paul Verhoeven told her that nothing would be seen of her but that she would have to shoot without underwear so that she does not come through the dress her.
“I went to the projection booth, I slapped Paul, I left, got in the car and called my lawyer,” he says about the moment he discovered that the deal had not been legitimate, something that Verhoeven, for his part, categorically denies.
Although they did not work together again, different statements by both make us think that they managed to rediscover positions, but the truth is that the Dutchman’s involvement in his shootings continues to make people talk if one reviews the actress’s book.
“During the filming of the movie’s initial stabbing sequence, at one point we cut up and the actor didn’t respond. He just lay there, unconscious, “says Stone about the filming of the sequence in which Johnny Boz (played by Bill Cable) is murdered. “I started to panic, I thought that the retractable fake ice pick had not retracted and that it had actually killed it. The fury of the sequence, along with the director yelling, ‘Hit him, harder!’ And ‘More blood, more blood!’ As the guy under the bed was pumping more fake blood through the prosthetic chest had already weakened me. . I got up, dizzy, sure that he would pass out. “
I was horrified
The ice pick murder, the common thread of the film’s plot, now jumps from fiction to reality. “It seemed like he had hit the actor so many times in the chest that he had passed out,” she explains. “I was horrified, naked and stained with fake blood. And now this. It seemed like there wasn’t a line where they didn’t ask me to skate to the edge to make this movie. “
This type of legends about conductors who push their interpreters to the limit are, luckily, less and less valued. Keeping the titles on the pedestals they deserve, nothing should happen if we talk negatively about how Stanley Kubrick tortured Shelley Duvall during the filming of the magnificent ‘The Shining’ (1980) or why we should think twice an hour of working with Abdellatif Kechiche after the experience narrated by Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux after filming ‘La vida de Adèle’ (2013).
With this in mind, we could make the world a little bit better if we can talk about how the fuck Verhoeven’s enthusiasm got a little bit out of hand as we ensure that, popular leg crossovers aside, ‘Basic Instinct’ is absolutely a thriller. fascinating in which we not only see two of the best works of Stone and Verhoeven, but the script of Joe Eszterhas, the photography of Jan de Bont, the music of Jerry Goldsmith, the performance of Michael Douglas and the sweat of Wayne Knight also they were at their brightest. And besides the Carolco, how not to adore her?
“I can say that the role was by far the most complex I had ever done in terms of having to consider my own dark side,” says the actress. “It was frightening. I dreamwalked three times during production, twice I woke up fully dressed in my car in the garage. I had horrible nightmares. “
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