Sharon Stone Reflects on Her Famous Role in the Thriller BASIC INSTINCT
Actress Sharon Stone has had a long and prolific career, with an Oscar nomination for her role in Casino, as well as an Emmy win for her role in The Practice. From The Quick and the Dead to Ratched and The Flight Attendant, she has played a lot of diverse roles, but her most memorable was probably the part of Catherine Tramell in the 1992 thriller, Basic Instinct.
In a recent interview with Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? on Max and CNN, Stone looked back at making the movie, and said:
“When I was breaking down the script, I thought the thing about Catherine Tremmell, is that she speaks man. And because she speaks man, it’s so confounding to the men in the room. Because she speaks back to them in the exact same way they speak to her, which is a showstopper. I think it was absolutely not only right for the character, but it was systematically correct for that period in time. We were very challenged with the AIDS controversy…that film got a triple X on its first…review with the review board. Now, you see so little of anything in this film, actually. And now we see men with full frontal nudity on television. But still, we look at that film as such a scandalous, controversial moment in filmmaking. And really, it’s quite benign by comparison to almost anything we see now.”
She has a point. Film and TV has become a lot more graphic in the decades since this movie was made, but for the time, it was pretty shocking. For Stone, she felt the role was empowering and a different kind of role for a woman at the time, and she was right. She embodies the character, and it will live on as one of her most iconic roles.
via: ComingSoon