Sharon Stone has revealed her ‘unsettling’ career-long fear of being shot dead by a fan, following a chat she had with Sylvester Stallone.
The 66-year-old actress’ fears grew from the trauma of her breakout role in Basic Instinct, which turned her into an overnight celebrity.
The Sun reports Sharon said at a Cannes charity gala: ‘What Sly said to me is that suddenly you are walking down the street, everyone is doing this (reaching into their pocket) and you don’t know if they are going for the pen or the gun.
‘That’s what becomes so unsettling, because everybody is doing that, but you don’t know why.
‘You feel constantly in this unsettled place that you always have to figure it out and you have to fix it and be ready.’
When Sharon reprised her crossed-legs pose from 1992 film Basic Instinct for social media this month, while wearing red lace underwear, she was criticised for being too old for such a saucy post.
Now the star has hit back, telling Daily Mail’s Richard Eden: ‘We get to grow older. It’s ridiculous that you’re only supposed to be OK when you’re 20. What the f***.’
Speaking at the Cannes charity gala, she added: ‘I was getting ready to give a speech about philanthropy.
‘And this is what I was wearing under my clothes. Paris [her stylist] said, ‘Let’s take a photograph’. It wasn’t planned.’
The actress took to Instagram earlier this month to share the jaw-dropping image clad in red lace lingerie, 32 years after she famously starred as the sexy killer Catherine Tramell.
The famous interrogation scene in Basic Instinct saw Sharon’s character Catherine quizzed by police, including Michael Douglas.
Amid the bombardment of questions, Catherine distracts them when she uncrosses the recrosses her legs, leaving the men flustered seeing as she was underwear-free at the time.
The scene was highly controversial at the time, and now has gone down as one of the most infamous in movie history.
And the actress proudly showcased her incredible figure in the sexy lingerie from Bloomers Intimate, posing with her legs crossed in an ode to the legendary scene.
Despite the moment turning Sharon into an overnight sensation, the Academy Award nominee has maintained in the past that she was ‘tricked’ into exposing herself for the cameras.
In her memoir The Beauty of Living Twice, the 66-year-old 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’.
For his part, Verhoeven has vehemently dismissed her claims that she was taken by surprise in the leg-crossing scene.
He said: ‘Any actress knows what she’s going to see if you ask her to take off her underwear and point there with the camera.’
But the Hollywood veteran has also been adamant she didn’t have any regrets about making the film.
‘Regrets are like farts, you can’t get them back. Once they’re out, there’s stinky and gone,’ she quipped previously.