Sharon Stone Recreates Famous Basic Instinct Crossed-Legs Scene 32 Years Later: 'Basically … Yours'

Stone posed for the throwback shot, 32 years after she filmed the famous interrogation room scene

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Sharon Stone is feeling nostalgic.

In a July 12 Instagram post, Stone, 66, recreated her famous crossed-legs pose from the 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct. "BASICALLY ….YOURS 🥰," she captioned the image, calling back to the film's title.

Seated in a fur chair with gold accents, the Casino star posed in a red lace bra-and-underwear set. She completed the sultry look with strappy blue heels and a chunky white necklace.

In the movie's iconic interrogation room scene, her character, Catherine Tramell, sits in a short white dress (which the actress kept after filming wrapped) while a group of male police officers question her about the murder of retired rock star Johnny Boz.

At one point, she uncrosses her legs and flashes the detectives while in the chair.

This isn't the first time Stone has recreated the scene. In November 2019, while accepting GQ’s Woman of the Year award, she had Billy Porter bring out a chair onstage for her. Wearing a glittery black minidress and heels, she got into her famous pose, and then encouraged the audience to join her.

She asked the crowd, “Do you feel empowered?”

Stone wrote in her 2021 memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, that she was tricked into not wearing any underwear to film the scene due to her white underwear reflecting the light.

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The film's director, Paul Verhoeven, has previously denied Stone's claim.

Stone spoke to PEOPLE last November about working on the erotic thriller, which also starred Michael Douglas and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Looking back more than three decades since the film's release, she called the process "scary" but rewarding.

"I got to confront my whole self, and that's a scary journey," she said at the time. "But once you do it, you walk away with a tremendous amount of confidence because you've had to look at all of yourself, parts of yourself you would never have to dig deep and look at, scary parts, dark parts, concerning parts.

"And once you do that, you get quite a bit of confidence because you've really looked into the dark mirror," Stone added.

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