Yesterday, for no apparent reason (other than #WaybackWednesday), Sharon Stone decided to tweet out her original audition reel for the 1992 erotic-thriller classic Basic Instinct. And that’s great!
(That’s director Paul Verhoeven reading the Michael Douglas part with Stone, not some actor inappropriately imposing a Dutch accent onto Detective Nick Curran, just FYI.)
She smokes, she boozes, she flips her hair, she mixes in playfully inviting smiles for spice — all in under 60 seconds.
Douglas, however, wanted a big-name star in the role to share the potential risk of appearing in what everyone knew would be a controversial flick.