Sharon Stone thinks Trump supporters probably aren’t fans of “Basic Instinct.”
The actress told The Hollywood Reporter that while her iconic bisexual femme fatale character, crime novelist Catherine Tramell, is considered controversial by some, their reactions are more indicative of a political viewpoint on feminism.
“I guess it depends on if she scares you or not,” Stone said of the 1992 role. “I would say MAGA people would probably think she’s scary.”
When asked if she personally found supposed murderess Catherine Tramell to be a “scary” character, Stone said, “I wanted to play her so badly that I had the script on top of my refrigerator for eight months. I just kept thinking, ‘I’m going to manifest this, I’m going to get this part,’ as they offered it to everybody else on the planet. I was the 13th choice. The line producer told me that relentlessly though the entire shoot while he called me Karen. ‘You, Karen, were the 13th choice.’”
The legendary star continued, “Hollywood is set up to be misogynistic. It’s a business run by men. It’s a business where men make the money. Where men write, produce and direct the projects. Where men write the parts that are played by women. And those parts are not written about real women. They’re written to be the fantasy of how women should be. Then, the male critics tell you if you met the fantasy or not, if you behaved in the right way.”
The boundary-pushing qualities of neo-noir “Basic Instinct” also extended to MPAA regulations and the studio.
“You know, until ‘Basic Instinct,’ women had to cross their legs a certain way on the screen, at the ankles. You couldn’t cross your legs like a man,” Stone said, skirting around her infamous underwear-less scene. “You weren’t even allowed to show your armpits. We had to get permission for me to show my armpits in that movie.”
Stone previously alleged during iHeartPodcast “Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi” that the film affected her custody agreement with ex-husband Phil Bronstein over their adopted son Roan.
“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,” Stone said. “People are walking around with no clothes on at all on regular TV now and you saw maybe like a 16th of a second of possible nudity of me — and I lost custody of my child. Are you kidding?”
Even fellow actors “laughed” at her during the Golden Globes when her name was read for Best Actress for the role.
“It was horrible! I was so humiliated!” Stone shared. “And I [thought], ‘Does anybody have any idea how hard it was to play that part? How gut-wrenching and frightening, and how much work it was to play this part right and kind of try to carry this complex movie that was really breaking all boundaries, and everybody was protesting against – and the pressure?’”
