Shazza!

She Can be 'Emotionally Cubist'
The woman who once uncrossed her legs without any underwear is reprising that role.
Here's a very funny article on Sharon Stone.

"This is Basic Instinct: The European version, not Basic Instinct 2," Stone announces when she arrives - 40 minutes late - for our interview.

She may be 48, but she's still the diva. She looks impeccably elegant in a Fendi dress, her fingers and neck heavy with Bulgari jewellery and her blonde hair cascading around her shoulders, skirting her heavily made-up face.

"They held me in hair and make-up prison because guess what, I don't look like this when I get up," she quips.

"We looked at Basic Instinct 2 as a psychological investigation," she goes on expansively. Which sounds grand. Yet the critics haven't exactly been resounding in praise of the movie, which most feel is more steamy than it is smart.

In the opening scene, Stone and Collymore are seen racing through the streets of London in a sports car while engaging in a spot of high-speed, Ketamine-fuelled sexplay that leads to them crashing through a safety barrier and into the Thames. There are also plenty of scenes of Stone naked with other women; Stone naked with Morrissey; Stone tightening a belt around Morrissey's neck mid-coitus. "Yes, there are scandalous things in the film," she admits. "Yes, there are evocative sexual moments."

Then, of course, there's the essential Stone full-frontal, which comes about two-thirds of the way through the film, in a Jacuzzi with Morrissey. "I felt we should hold off on the full nudity for a while in the movie and then I thought that, when I ultimately did do the nude scene, it should be done in a startling way that would be disturbing and threatening," she says. "I wanted to do the nudity in a way that was quite brazen. I wanted [Tramell] to be very masculine, like a man in a steam room, and I wanted the audience to have a moment where they realise she's naked and then realise she's a fortysomething woman and naked, because we're not used to seeing that in movies. We're used to seeing Sean Connery and his grand-daughter, you know what I mean? Or Mel Gibson and his daughter."

This is one of Stone's more lucid moments during our interview, in which she sporadically says things I can make no sense of (such as describing the Jacuzzi scene as an "emotionally cubist" moment).

Really, you gotta laugh.