Sharon Stone says THAT Basic Instinct scene now seems 'very ordinary' compared to raunchy present-day scenes - as star talks on-screen sex moving away from 'male fantasy'

Sharon Stone said her iconic and controversial Basic Instinct interrogation scene now seems 'very ordinary' compared to raunchy present-day films.

The actress, 66, played seductive Catherine Tramell in the 1992 film - with the famed scene seeing the prime suspect quizzed by police, including Michael Douglas.

Amid the bombardment of questions, Catherine distracts them when she uncrosses then recrosses her legs, leaving the men flustered seeing as she was underwear-free at the time.

Appearing at the Taormina Film Festival, the star said - per Deadline -that while the scene was considered X-rated at the time, nowadays it would have lost its shock factor.

She said:'[at the time] it seemed like a scandal, and now it seems very, very ordinary. 

Sharon Stone said her iconic and controversial Basic Instinct interrogation scene now seems 'very ordinary' compared to raunchy present-day films

The actress, 66, played seductive Catherine Tramell in the 1992 film - with the famed scene seeing the prime suspect quizzed by police Catherine distracts them when she uncrosses then recrosses her legs, leaving the men flustered seeing as she was underwear-free at the time.

'I think that now that women are writing, directing, producing, filming and more and more a part of filmmaking, films are less about men writing films about their fantasies of the way women are

'And actresses are less asked to portray the male fantasy, and then critics are less asked to tell us if we fulfilled the male fantasy or not. It’s more, are we fulfilling the human condition?'

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Reflecting on how cinema had changed in the past 30 years, she said: 'Studio systems have changed dramatically.

'They’ve changed from making a variety of movies to making these gigantic $100 and $200 million films.

'Thirty years ago we had choices of what kind of films we could see.

'Streamers are taking over our business, and I don’t think that’s a terrible thing. I think we’re coming back to making smaller films and a variety of films, and I think that’s a good thing.'

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, Sharon 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'.

The 1992 film starred Michael Douglas as Nick Curran, a disgraced homicide detective and Stone as Catherine, a wealthy heiress who Curran believes has murdered her ex

Appearing at the Taormina Film Festival, the star said - per Deadline -that while the scene was considered X-rated at the time, nowadays it would have lost its shock factor. She said:'[at the time] it seemed like a scandal, and now it seems very, very ordinary' 

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.