Sharon Stone has some words of wisdom for anyone who wants to do another iteration of “Basic Instinct.”
The Oscar-nominated actor, who starred in the original 1992 version of the film, returned to her iconic role for 2006′s “Basic Instinct 2.” While the first film was a commercial success, the second movie was anything but.
Despite the flop, a new reboot of the film is in the works, and will be penned by the movie’s original writer. But don’t count on seeing Stone in it.
“If it goes the way the one that I was in went, I would just say I do not know why you’d do it,” Stone told Craig Melvin of the “Today” show in a new interview, released on Monday.
“I mean, go ahead!” she said emphatically. “But, good fucking luck!”
Melvin called Stone’s candor “so refreshing,” and she explained where it comes from.
“I’m at that stage in my life where I already retired once,” she said. “And I already died a couple of times. I’m like, ‘What are you going to do? Kill me again? Go ahead.’”
Stone recently shared a frank story about tension with her “Basic Instinct” co-star, Michael Douglas. (Stone’s timeline of events has since been disputed by a rep for Douglas).
“Michael Douglas did not want to put his bare ass out on the screen with an unknown,” Stone said in an interview with Business Insider published earlier this month. “And I understood that. He wouldn’t even test with me. But that was also for a different reason; we had an argument prior to that.”
Stone said the argument took place during Cannes Film Festival when Douglas “was talking about someone and their kids” to a group of people, including Stone.
“I really, really knew this person he was talking about. So I said something and he responded to me, saying, ‘What the fuck do you know?’” Stone said.
“So he screams this at me across a whole group of people. And I’m not the person who goes, ‘Oh, excuse me, superstar,’” she added. “I pushed back my chair and said to him, ‘Let’s step outside.’ That’s how we first met.”
A representative for Douglas told People magazine at the time that Douglas was “very surprised” by Stone’s recollection, and “doesn’t remember any argument in that timeframe.”
Stone’s reps did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
CORRECTION: This article was updated to correct Sharon Stone’s award show history.