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Sharon Stone says THAT Basic Instinct scene now seems 'very ordinary' compared to raunchy present-day scenes - as star talks on-screen sex moving away from 'male fantasy'


Sharon Stone said her iconic and controversial Basic Instinct interrogation scene now seems 'very ordinary' compared to raunchy present-day films.

The actress, 66, played seductive Catherine Tramell in the 1992 film - with the famed scene seeing the prime suspect quizzed by police, including Michael Douglas. Appearing at the Taormina Film Festival, the star said - per Deadline-that while the scene was considered X-rated at the time, nowadays it would have lost its shock factor. In her memoir The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon described how she slapped her director Paul Verhoeven in fury and walked out of a preview of the erotic thriller after discovering his assurances that it wouldn't show up on screen had been a lie and that the audience could — as she put it — 'see all the way to Nebraska'.

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