NEWSWEEK: Sharon Stone Says After Basic Instinct Was Released: 'I Stopped at a Traffic Light. And People Climbed on Top of My Car. It Was Like Locusts.'

NEWSWEEK: Sharon Stone Says After Basic Instinct Was Released: 'I Stopped at a Traffic Light. And People Climbed on Top of My Car. It Was Like Locusts.'

NEW YORK, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- It's been 14 years since "Basic Instinct" riveted the world with its unabashed voyeurism, its lethal bisexuals and its ice pick. The movie rescued Stone from a career of forgettable babe roles, and turned her, overnight, into a sexual icon and international star, writes Senior Writer Sean Smith in the March 27 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, March 20). In the current issue, Smith talks to Sharon Stone about the upcoming sequel, dating and her experiences with Basic Instinct. "I'll tell you what it was like," Stone tells Newsweek. "The Monday after 'Basic' opened, I was driving down Sunset Boulevard. I stopped at a traffic light. And people climbed on top of my car. It was like locusts."

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"Basic Instinct 2" finally arrives in theaters on March 31, and will almost certainly be hailed as unforgettable-though not, perhaps, for the reasons that Stone and the filmmakers intended, writes Smith. If you expect an erotic thriller, you may be sorely disappointed. But if you expect soft-core camp, you will be rewarded with a showstopper nearly in the league of the weirdly mesmerizing "Showgirls." Stone prowls, purrs and struts through every scene, delivering a performance so over the top that she elevates a bad movie into a must-see diva extravaganza.

For the record, the actress doesn't find her role in "Basic Instinct 2" to be a laughing matter, "That part is insidious," Stone tells Newsweek. "It takes discipline, and it's incredibly invasive. You don't eat when you play Catherine. You're feral. You watch others eat and you feel sorry for them."

When the talk turns to dating, Smith asks if men have sometimes fallen in love with the fantasy of Sharon Stone, rather than with the woman herself. "I've had that experience," Stone says. "You date somebody and three months into the relationship you get the flu and he's so furious, and he goes to his front-row seats at the basketball game without you because he doesn't want to be with the person who gets the flu." Stone continues, "I stopped dating about a year ago, and decided to take some time to heal myself from a variety of traumas, that being one of them. I've come to recognize that I'm special, and my children are special, and I deserve to be treasured like anyone does."

Anyone looking to win her heart should know, "Guys who think they're cool aren't cool to me," Stone says. "The kind of guy I'm looking for would want to wear Spongebob pajamas and sit in the front row at the school play."

(Complete article can be read at www.Newsweek.com.)

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