Sharon Stone's Basic Instinct Nude Scene Controversy Explained

Paul Verhoeven has gone on record claiming that Sharon Stone’s story about her “Basic Instinct” nude scene is incorrect. He told Variety in 2021, “My memory is radically different from Sharon’s memory. […] But her version is impossible. She knew exactly what we were doing. I told her it was based on a story of a woman that I knew when I was a student who did the crossing of her legs without panties regularly at parties. When my friend told her we could see her vagina, she said, ‘Of course, that’s why I do it.’ Then Sharon and I decided to do a similar sequence.” Verhoeven also claimed in the interview that he and Stone maintain a social relationship.

Stone further recalled in her memoirs, however, that Verhoeven called her by the wrong name throughout the production and editing phase of “Basic Instinct.” Allegedly, he also responded to her confronting him about the scene after she slapped him at the screening by declaring that she had no choice in determining if it went into the finished film or not. Whether the actor or the director is right on the matter, it’s hard to deny that this one moment has gone down in pop culture history.

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