Sharon Stone says she was misled while filming the famous scene from “Basic Instinct”

Sharon Stone has said she was pressured to have sex with her male co-stars in order to have better chemistry with them on screen, and was misled into filming the most famous scene in Basic Instinct without any underwear.

The actress said she didn’t know she would be so exposed in the 1992 thriller, in which she starred alongside Michael Douglas.

In one scene in the film, her character Catherine Tramell crosses her legs to reveal that she is not wearing any underwear.

However, Stone said she didn’t know what audiences would see until she saw the film for the first time, according to an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, “The Beauty Of Living Twice,” published in Vanity Fair.

She said: “That’s how I first saw my vagina picture, long after I was told, ‘We can’t see anything – you just have to take your panties off because the white reflects the light so we know you’re wearing panties.’

“Yes, there are many opinions on this topic, but since I am the one concerned with the vagina, I would like to say: the other opinions are nonsense.

“Now it matters. It didn’t matter anymore. It was about me and my share up there. I had to make decisions.”

“I went to the projection booth, punched Paul (Verhoeven, the director) in the face, left the room, went to my car and called my lawyer, Marty Singer.

“Marty told me they couldn’t release the film in that condition… And Marty said according to the Screen Actors Guild, my union, it was not legal to shoot under my dress like that.

“‘Phew,’ I thought. That was my first thought, anyway. Then I thought some more. What if I was the director? What if I had taken that shot? What if I had taken it on purpose? Or by accident? What if it just existed? It was a lot to think about.

“I knew what film I was making. For heaven’s sake, I fought for this role, and the whole time, this director was the only one fighting for me. I had to find a way to become objective.

“I had taken so long to prepare for the project that I had fully studied the character and the danger of the role. I came to work ready to play Catherine Tramell. Now I was being challenged again.”

She added: “After the screening, I told Paul about the options Marty had presented to me. Of course, he vehemently denied that I had any choice at all. I was just an actress, just a woman; what choice could I have had?

“But I had a choice. So I thought long and hard and decided to allow this scene in the film. Why? Because it was right for the film and the character; and because I finally did it.

“By the way, you probably don’t remember, but my name was not at the top of the poster with Michael Douglas’s.”

A representative for Verhoeven was contacted for comment.

Stone also claimed that at one point in her career, an unnamed male producer asked her to have sex with a co-star to encourage on-screen chemistry.

She wrote: “I felt like they could’ve just hired a talented co-star, someone who can carry a scene and remember his lines. I also felt like they could’ve just f***ed him themselves and left me out.”

“It was my job to act and I said so. That was not a popular reaction. I was considered difficult.”

Stone said she has had similar experiences many times with other producers who have come to her trailer and asked, “So, are you going to f*** him or not? … You know it would go better if you did.”