Sharon Stone surprised the film industry and generated a strong reaction by revealing that the scene from Low Instincts that made her famous was without her consent . The 63-year-old actress has opened up about how she was misled by film director Paul Verhoeven . Whoever is responsible for such a despicable lie is a controversial filmmaker who has had other strong controversies in his career . Who is it?
The sequence from the 1992 film made history for the provocative way in which Catherine Tramell reacted to police questioning : crossed her legs and showed her crotch . 29 years later, Stone recalled this scene in his autobiography The Beauty of Living Twice and denounced that when he recorded it I had no idea his private parts were going to come out on the plane.
“I first saw the plane of my vagina long after making sure ‘we can’t see nothing, we just need you to take your panties off because the white reflects the light.’ I went to the projection booth, slapped Paul Verhoeven, went there and called my lawyer “ The actress recounted the difficult moment she realized the deception. Additionally, he confessed to allowing her to appear in the film because at that time there were few options for women and “because it was okay for the film and for the character . “
Stone took direct aim at Verhoeven for what happened. He is an 82-year-old Dutch director who has directed major titles such as Turkish Delight, RoboCop, Total Recall, Low Instincts, Showgirls, Starship Troopers and Elle . Although he did various genres, his films were characterized by their provocative character and they were not without controversy.
Showgirls It was her first project after Low Instincts and the big failure of her career. Was the “most expensive script ever , “ but received heavy criticism from the industry and failed to raise to cover its budget . The film tells the story of a dancer from Las Vegas, but with a cartoonish or grotesque tinge full of nude scenes. In fact, its protagonist Elizabeth Berkley his career is almost buried before the painful place he has received in the plot.
His next project was Space Patrollers and the director couldn’t change the negative trend. The film was an adaptation of a novel and was the subject of opposing views due to the stark differences from the book. When it hit theaters, most American critics denounced it as a satire on war.
“The rejection caused by Showgirls made my life very miserable and since then making films has become more and more difficult for me. And after the Starship Troopers premiere, they called me everything. A columnist even accused me of being a neo-Nazi. No, I don’t like to provoke; I am not a quarrel. Now I will never change a script so as not to provoke, ” Verhoeven admitted in 2016 after the release of his latest film: Elle .
Precisely with the tape, she was again at the center of the controversy because it is the story of a businesswoman who is raped at home by a stranger and who later decides to take revenge. “People have called my film a comedy about sexual abuse and it’s not that. What stupidity. There is nothing funny in my portrait of rape, on the contrary: it is brutal and terrible ” , defended himself after the launch.
The director is not retired from the cinema despite his age. He is currently in post-production Benedetta , a film which will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival 2021. A challenge for his reputation, even more questioned after Stone’s statements. For the moment, he has not commented on the subject or apologized.
