Stone then urged the audience, which included her 19-year-old son Roan, to cross their legs too, and quipped: ‘T here was a time when all I was, was a joke.’ ‘I said, “sure”, I didn’t know this moment would change my life.’ Sharon Stone set pulses racing in 1992 thriller Basic Instinct. Speaking onstage after accepting her award, she said: ‘Some years ago I was sitting on a sound stage, and my director said, “Can you hand me your underpants because we’re seeing them in the scene and you shouldn’t have underpants on but we won’t see anything”.

Sharon Stone, 61, recreated the infamous leg-crossing scene from Basic Instinct. 'Women championed that movie men were obsessed with a woman who could make it stop.Now, the age-defying star has done it again, albeit with underwear this time, at the recent GQ Men of the Year Awards as she accepted the gong for Woman of the Year. It's about more than just a peek up my skirt, people. 'Do you have any idea how many people have watched Basic Instinct in the last 20-something years?' Stone goes on to say. Stone explains in her book that her lawyer, Marty Singer, claimed that the shot had been taken illegally, but she later allowed the shot to be used in the film. She says that she first saw the scene in 'a room full of agents and lawyers, most of whom had nothing to do with the project' and immediately went and slapped director Paul Verhoeven. 'We can't see anything, I just need you to remove your panties, as the white is reflecting the light, so we know you have panties on,' Stone says she was told. In her forthcoming memoir, Stone explains that she was tricked into not wearing underwear for that scene over a supposed lighting issue. Sharon Stone has revealed the story behind her famous leg cross in 'Basic Instinct', the movie which shot her to international stardom.

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