{"id":19036,"date":"2022-02-17T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=209631"},"modified":"2022-02-17T15:18:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T04:18:18","slug":"sharon-stone-basic-instinct-dress","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/sharon-stone-basic-instinct-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Stone Still Owns One Very Iconic Piece Of Wardrobe From “Basic Instinct”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unbeknown to Sharon Stone<\/a> at the time but her 1992 appearance in Basic Instinct <\/em>would change the course of her career forever. For those unacquainted with the infamous interrogation scene, the then-32-year-old actress was instructed to remove her underpants and perform a risqu\u00e8 scene where she crosses and uncrosses her leg in a tiny cream mini dress.<\/p>\n

Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct\u00a0<\/em>has continued to be a cult classic perhaps in part thanks to that scene. Thus, it is almost unbelievable to think that Stone was paid just $500,000 USD in comparison to her male co-star Michael Douglas who earned a whopping $14 million. In a first-person essay for InStyle<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>this week, the 63-year-old explained on the 30th anniversary how she negotiated her own slice of compensation.<\/p>\n

“From the moment I read the script, I knew I was the right person for the role,” Stone wrote. For the film she collaborated with costume designer, Ellen Mirojnick.<\/p>\n

“Ellen … took me to Rodeo Drive and said, ‘You can pick out any one thing that you want for your character,'” she explained.<\/p>\n

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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE — Episode 17 — Pictured: (l-r) Sharon Stone during the monologue on April 11, 1992 — Photo by: Alan Singer\/NBCU Photo Bank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“We decided to go for all white because my character had a very Hitchcockian vibe,” she added. “But Ellen designed the dress so that I could sit like a man if he was being interrogated. It gave me the ability to move my arms and legs, take up space, and exercise control over a room full of men.”<\/p>\n

Stone recalled the moment Verhoeven asked her to remove underwear. She was assured by the cinematographer that they could not see anything past her skirt. “Of course, when I saw the completed movie for the first time with a bunch of other people, you could see right up my skirt,” Stone said.<\/p>\n

Because of the poor pay, she negotiated to keep her wardrobe from the film which included a cream H\u00e8rmes cape and that <\/em>tiny high-neck custom dress. She has never worn the dress since that fateful scene and keeps it as a reminder of the valuable lessons she has learned following the release of the film.<\/p>\n

“I’ve kept the white dress and coat. It was zipped up in a garment bag on the set, and it has never been opened since,” she shared. “I broke the zipper, so it’s hermetically sealed like a piece of art or a very cool time capsule.”<\/p>\n