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by Jeremy Taylor, posted Feb 25th 2011 5:30AM
Sharon Stone's notorious leg-crossing interrogation scene in 'Basic Instinct' was just voted the most paused moment in film history.Stone was on 'Piers Morgan Tonight' (Weeknights, 9PM ET on CNN) and Morgan asked Stone if it's true that she smacked 'Basic Instinct' director Paul Verhoeven the first time she saw the just-honored scene.
"He had told me -- when we shot the scene -- that the light was reflecting off of my underwear and that he could see that I had underwear on," Stone explained. "And that if I took off my underwear there would be a shadow, and we wouldn't see my pubic hair."
Of course, you could see her pubic hair, which is something Stone didn't realize until she saw a screening of the film with other members of the cast and crew.
Stone said it was the shock of learning in a public setting how exposed she was -- as opposed to a screening with just her and the director -- that led her to strike Verhoeven.
But, in the end, Stone thought it was a great scene: "I agreed that it was very, very good for the movie," she told Morgan. "But I didn't have the chance to process it."
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