Before she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama for Martin Scorsese’s Casino in 1996, Sharon Stone was already causing a sensation in the sultry thriller. You’ll no doubt recognize it as her role as Catherine Trammell in Basic Instinct.
Directed in 1992 by Paul Verhoeven (whom we owe a full recall), this thriller tells the story of Nick Curran (Michael Douglas), a police inspector in San Francisco who investigates the gruesome murder of rock star Johnny Boze, who was murdered along with thirty-one. Picking ice by an unknown woman while making love.
Nick found out that the singer was dating Katherine Trammell (Sharon Stone), a rich and brilliant novelist. As he investigates, he learns that Catherine’s parents died in a suspicious accident, that her psychology professor was killed ten years ago with an ice pick, and finally that one of her best friends killed her three children and her husband in 1956.
A role that adheres to the skin
basic instinct Does not mark the first steps Sharon Stone in the cinema. The seventy-six-year-old actor first played secondary roles, before finding a place among the greatest. Since 1990, he has been seen in films Total recallHitman, Assassin or The Year of the Bullet.
However, it really is basic instinct Which took her to the heights of fame and gave her the label of international sex symbol. Even today, her role as the femme fatale continues to stir passions, especially the interrogation scene in which Sharon StoneShe crosses her legs in a mini dress without panties.
At the time of the release of the feature film, this scenario caused a scandal and was even censored in the United States. Sharon Stone He later explained his actions by saying that he did not think so Paul Verhoeven would photograph this intimate part of the body.
This scene, which revealed him to the public, cost him dearly during the divorce proceedings, as the actor confided: “I lost custody of my son when the judge asked him, ‘Do you know your mother is in erotic films?’. Before adding: “We decided what kind of parent I would be based on the decision to make this film.
one thing is for sure Sharon Stone Not ready to forget this masterful thriller, rated 3.8 out of 5 by AlloCiné viewers, and especially its nudity scene…
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