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Sharon Stone recreates the crossed-legged scene from “Basic Instinct” 32 years later

Sharon Stone recreates the crossed-legged scene from “Basic Instinct” 32 years later

Sharon Stone is nostalgic.

In a July 12 Instagram post, Stone, 66, recreated her famous cross-legged pose from the 1992 erotic thriller. Basic instinct. “BASICALLY… YOU 🥰,” she wrote under the photo, recalling the title of the film.

Sitting in a fur chair with gold accents, casino The star posed in a red lace bra and underwear. She rounded off the sensual look with blue strappy pumps and a chunky white necklace.

In the film’s iconic interrogation scene, her character, Catherine Tramell, sits in a short white dress (which the actress kept after filming wrapped) while a group of male police officers interrogate her about the murder of retired rock star Johnny Boz.

At one point she crosses her legs and flashes while sitting on the chair.

This is not the first time Stone has recreated the scene. In November 2019, he accepted GQ’At the Woman of the Year awards ceremony, she had Billy Porter bring a chair to the stage for her. Dressed in a glittery black minidress and high heels, she struck her famous pose and then asked the audience to join her.

She asked the crowd: “Do you feel empowered?”

Stone wrote in her 2021 memoir: The beauty of living twicethat she was tricked into not wearing any underwear while filming the scene because her white underwear reflected the light.

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The film’s director, Paul Verhoeven, had previously denied Stone’s claim.

Stone spoke to PEOPLE last November about working on the erotic thriller, which also starred Michael Douglas and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Looking back more than three decades since the film’s release, she called the process “scary” but rewarding.

“I had to face my whole self, and that’s a scary journey,” she said at the time. “But once you do it, you come out of it with an enormous amount of confidence because you had to look at everything about yourself, parts of yourself that you would never otherwise have to dig deeper into and look at, scary parts, dark parts, worrying parts.”

“And once you do that, you gain a lot of confidence because you’ve really looked in the dark mirror,” Stone added.