Sharon Stone

If someone thinks that what has been said above is exaggerated, they only have to see the film in which the actress is currently working: Basic Instinct 2 . The shadow of the erotic and morbid thriller, concocted by Paul Verhoeven and Joe Eszterhas , where Stone gave the coup along with a bewildered Michael Douglas , is long, and the question is whether what Michael Caton-Jones delivers will be the finishing touch to the career of the actress, or a new and necessary impulse. It’s clear that Stone is wearing her 47 years well, but undertaking another high-voltage sexual film would be said to be a desperate maneuver, in the style of the one that Sylvester Stallone (her partner in The Specialist ) is preparing withRocky Balboa .

Sharon Stone was born into a humble family in Meadville, Pennsylvania. She was the second of four brothers, and with a good ‘coconut’ the girl went to university, and they said that hers would be the law. But the truth is that her beauty was already noticeable, since she won the Miss Pennsylvania contest. Her first film appearance was fleeting, and Sharon was already 22 years old: she was “the pretty girl on the train” in Memories (1980), by Woody Allen . She did a lot of very dumb movies, with poor quality roles: King Solomon’s Mines (1985), Crazy Police Academy IV (1987), Deadly Steel (1987). In 1988 she was ‘partenaire’ of Steven Seagal in Above the Law , byAndrew Davis , the future director of The Fugitive . There should have been little homework, so that in 1989 he agreed to make the adaptation of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez ‘s novel Blood and Sand for the Spanish director Javier Elorrieta .

And suddenly, the Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, who had just shot RoboCop in Hollywood , and wanted to follow the paths of science fiction with Total Recall (1990), according to a story by Philip K. Dick , appeared on his way.. The filmmaker cast her as Lori, and while Stone didn’t do much, she drew attention for her physical fitness for tough action scenes. Verhoeven did not forget the actress, and when it came to composing the icy and lethal Catherine Tramell he turned to her. Partly because, as he recognized, “I wouldn’t have been able to work in this way with a well-known actress, I was able to push her to give herself to the fullest precisely because she had nothing to lose.” That is to say, she was able to ask him for sex scenes that no renowned actress would have agreed to give them to her.

Basic Instinct (1992) was a success that seen today seems exaggerated. But hard work, an intriguing plot and the undeniable curiosity helped the phenomenon. From here thrillers arose in the same vein, and without too much punch, like Sliver . And he got involved in remakes of French titles, Intersection , opposite Richard Gere , and Diabolics , which paled in comparison to Clouzot’s original. The best role in his filmography was undoubtedly given to him by Martin Scorsese in Casino (1995), for which he received a fair Oscar nomination. And from the same year is the entertainment in the form of a western Quick and Deadly , by the then mischievous Sam Raimi .. Then, the truth is that he has not done anything striking. And his personal life, two divorces, a single adopted child, plus his brain aneurysm in 2001 from which she happily recovered, has had to be painful. The actress is very good in the entertaining Sphere (1997) and A world tailored to her De ella (1998), although hers are supporting roles. The critics were primed with her and with Sidney Lumet in the remake of Gloria (1999), although the woman did not do anything bad. And so she has been chaining minimal roles in minimal films ( Spicy Bits , The House , Catwoman …), highlighting only her intervention in Broken Flowers ( Jim Jarmusch, 2005). I don’t know, one comes to mind when reviewing his career what was said about “wasted talent” in A Bronx Story . I’m sorry to say it, but it’s what one gets after reviewing his filmography.