Verhoeven previously denied that Stone didn’t consent to her crotch being filmed as she crossed and uncrossed her legs. “Why? Because it was correct for the film and for the character and because, after all, I did it,” she wrote. While the 63-year-old star, who played murder suspect Catherine Tramell, acknowledges there are “many points of view on this topic,” she asserts that, as the “one with the vagina … the other points of view are bullsh*t.”Īfter consulting with her lawyer, Stone said, she ultimately chose not to seek an injunction over the controversial scene, according to the excerpt in Vanity Fair. “That was how I saw my vagina shot for the first time, long after I’d been told, ‘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.’”Īccording to Stone, she “went to the projection booth, slapped (director) Paul (Verhoeven) across the face, left, went to my car, and called my lawyer, Marty Singer.” Basic Instinct's most famous scene is undoubtedly the interrogation scene, where Stone notoriously crosses and uncrosses her legs. Now they've waded into Britain's culture wars THE LEG-CROSSING SCENE WAS NOT IN THE SCRIPT. The royals have always stayed out of politics. (Photo by Harpo Productions/Joe Pugliese via Getty Images) Harpo Productions/Joe Pugliese/Getty Images UNSPECIFIED - UNSPECIFIED: In this handout image provided by Harpo Productions and released on March 5, 2021, Oprah Winfrey interviews Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on A CBS Primetime Special premiering on CBS on March 7, 2021.

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