That Sharon Stone shot

Stone’s character seduces the detective pursuing her, played by Michael Douglas, and a scene where she crosses her legs during an interrogation soon became infamous.

But in her autobiography “The beauty of living twice” she writes that she was asked to remove her underwear during filming because “the white is reflecting the light” but that the viewers “can’t see anything”. She didn’t discover that they could, in fact, see quite a lot until she was called in to a screening filled with agents and lawyers.

“Now, here is the issue. It didn’t matter anymore. It was me and my parts up there. I had decisions to make,” she writes. “I went to the projection booth, slapped Paul [Verhoeven, the director] across the face, left, went to my car, and called my lawyer.”

Her lawyer told her that shot wasn’t legal, but she wrestled with the fact she had fought hard for the part and Verhoeven had fought for her to get it.

“I did have choices,” she wrote. “So I thought and thought and I chose to allow this scene in the film. Why? Because it was correct for the film and for the character; and because, after all, I did it.”