HER iconic role as a sexually-charged killer in film Basic Instinct is one of the most provocative in movie history. But when Sharon Stone first turned up in Hollywood, she was told she was not “sexy” enough.
In her no-holds-barred autobiography, The Beauty Of Living Twice, out today, the 63-year-old actress reveals that her manager told her no one would hire her because, “I wasn’t, as they liked to say in Hollywood at the time, ‘f***able’.” Six weeks later, she was cast in Basic Instinct, where a scene in which she crossed and uncrossed her legs — to reveal she was not wearing any underwear — would capture the attention of the world.
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