Almost everyone remembers the notorious crossing of legs by Catherine Tramell, the serial killer played by Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct (1992). A scene that barely lasts a few seconds, but that continues to make people talk more than thirty years after its premiere. A controversial “nude” in its time, for which many actresses rejected the role at the time; and that he has persecuted Stone in later years to such an extent that she lost custody of her eldest child.
This is how she denounces it herself, assuring that because of that famous scene, and the rest of the much more risqué sequences that she starred in in the film, she has had numerous personal problems throughout her life; among which is the loss of custody of her son Roan.
The interpreter adopted Roan in the year 2000 together with her then-husband, the journalist Phil Bronstein, whom she married in 1998. After several unsuccessful attempts to be parents due to an autoimmune disease of the actress and severe endometriosis, which prevented her from carry a pregnancy to term.
In 2004 they both separated, and it was he who got custody of the little boy four years later. A judicial decision that few understood then, but now Sharon Stone has wanted to reveal some of the dramatic details that led to it, and part of her fault was how the judge prejudged her for having appeared in Basic Instinct.
As Stone recounted in an interview with the Table For Two podcast, the judge’s decision was motivated, among other things, by the scenes of his character.
“The judge asked my son, my little boy: ‘Did you know that your mother makes sex movies?’ As a kind of abuse by the system, considering what kind of mother she was for having made that film, “reveals Sharon Stone, who acknowledges that this was a blow to her.
“I was admitted to the Mayo Clinic with ventricular extrasystole in the upper and lower chambers of my heart. It broke my heart. It literally broke my heart,” she confesses, noting how everything has changed since then. “Now people are walking around naked on television, but maybe you saw like a sixteenth of a second of my potential nudity, and I lost custody of my son. Are you kidding?” Stone criticizes.
Luckily, the actress recovered her relationship with her son, with whom she currently resides in California along with her other two children, Laird, 18, and Quinn, 17; whom the actress she adopted solo.
Apart from the problems with her ex-husband because of their common son, the actress also affirms that at a professional level they did not make things easy for her either. She gives the Golden Globes ceremony that year as an example of her, stating that her nomination only served to make people laugh at her.
“It was horrible. I was humiliated,” she recalls, “Does anyone get the idea of ??how difficult it was to play that role? How heartbreaking it was? How terrifying? Trying to make this complex movie that broke all the molds , which everyone was protesting against, and all the pressure… I auditioned for it for nine months. It was offered to 13 other people. And now you’re laughing at me. I just wanted to get in a hole.”
