Sharon Stone Calls Out Sex Scenes for Becoming ‘Blatant, Harsh’ and Leaving Nothing to the Imagination: ‘I Fast Forward. I Don’t Want to See It’

I wonder if she'd change her mind after seeing a tasteful sex scene.... like in The Room.

Talk about pulling up the ladder behind you

It's ironic because I remember when Basic Instinct came out and THAT scene was all that was talked about, Katherine Hepburn referring to Sharon Stone said: "It’s a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what’s between her ears instead of her legs.”

Maybe I’m just watching a much different cadre of films but I feel like sex scenes are much less frequent and often tamer than the 80’s and 90’s. Caveat, I’m sure that Stone sees vastly more films than I do and I’m usually at least 5 years late to any cultural moment, so maybe in 5 years when I get around to it my mind will be blown.

It’s very rare that a sex scene adds anything to the plot that cannot be achieved with a fade-to-black. There are certain types of movies and shows where it is important to the theme/setting/plot, such as the gay hockey show, or a romance movie that’s supposed to get you riled up. But most movies and shows can just have two characters come together, start touching and kissing, and fade out, and it would be just as good as a the drawn out scene with added complexity and cost shooting an intimate scene has these days.

I don’t know about her reasons, but I usually fast forward too because they almost never add anything to the story and they are damn boring to boot.

Most paused woman fast forwards, got it.

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Underrated actress. She was Margot Robbie before Margot Robbie. Incredible in C*****.

Does she not remember sliver ? I do. You do see everything there

These kind of posts are my least favorite on Listnook. A celebrity. A quote pulled out of an article. Nobody reads the article. The article itself is usually an ad-ridden mess. Just the lame state of current internet culture.

Sharon'' Back In My Day'' Stone complaining no one shows their p**** lips like she used to.

Did she not have her kitty out in Basic Instinct?

Same Sharon, same

Honestly I can't think of any movie I've seen where the sex scene actually added something to the plot. The exception is the big Lebowski but that doesn't even have a sex scene, it has a right after sex scene

I feel like unless the film is actually about sex, it is kind of unnecessary. I’d feel weird writing a sex scene into a script that didn’t call for it because unlike a sex scene in a book or a game or something, you are specifically asking a real actress to pretend to have sex in front of a room full of people and then have everyone watch it maybe on a big ass screen with a room full of strangers. It’s a weird thing to ask of someone when you think about it. You can just as easily imply sex without showing it. Good example of that in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. Got some brief moaning over the visual of springs inside the bed, then cut to the people just lying back afterwards. All that said tho, I don’t have a problem with it, people should be welcome to write and act out whatever they like as long as everyone involved is ok with it.

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I agree with her on that. Watching a “full on” sex scene is weird for me to watch as well, it feels intrusive. Sex scenes don’t play fair, if we watch these people be intimate, why all of the sudden do they cover up with a sheet or put on underwear. Nobody does that. It doesn’t actually ad anything to script itself either.

Just to point out, her story has pretty much always been that she was manipulated/lied to about the infamous leg-crossing scene. TL;DR the director told her the framing of the shot would mean the nudity was implied and, when she wore panties on the day of shooting, he convinced her to take them off by saying the fabric was reflecting light onto the camera. So, given that, it's not really a case of her "pulling up the ladder behind her" with these comments.

I do the same. Don’t care for sex scenes in movies at all.

Sadly, I think this speaks a lot about American culture more than anything else. Sex scenes, enhance relationship relationships between characters or at least they used to. People in the United States don’t seem to understand relationships anymore. Romantic relationships include physical intimacy, and often complicate things. It’s essential for the human experience and for storytelling.

When did we get so prudish? If p*** can be funny I don't see why overindulgent sex scenes can't be. Just laugh at them! Wheres this "ewwww" feeling coming from?

I agree with her. The sex scenes are vulgar because they lack any believable emotional connection. If that’s what people want to watch they should watch p***. I can’t take another scene of throwing her/him against the wall or on the kitchen table.

On this subject, she has a leg up on the competition

So glad she is supporting her industry by going to cinemas instead of just streaming stuff at home.

Everything has to be so hamfisted nowadays.  

My wife does the same for violence.

I guess she is not a Heated Rivalry fan.

I am with her except one, the ‘Atonement’ library scene. Maybe an ‘Officer and a Gentleman’ (they had to reframe it to avoid X rating 😋).

I honestly feel like there’s less nudity and sex in movies now than in the 70s-90s. If there is it’s not Porkys or horror movie nudity.

It ruins the pacing.

I despise sex scenes. They are pointless.

Agreed. It’s gone too far for tv. Even some crime shows are going to far showing the acts of crime. It’s too much creepy at times. She had a scandalous blip in an R rated movie one time. That doesn’t negate her point about television.

I think showing pubes is pretty blatant no?

In seriousness, love scenes should be more common than violence in every media. People should watch healthy relationships that include making love.

I was complaining about this the other day when watching bridgerton- I get that it’s technically smut/soft core - and bridgerton can get away with it for that reason, but I really don’t understand why they’ve become so obsessed with over the top lengthy sex scenes. I remember back in the day they’d just show people slowly going out of frame and you can kinda conclude what’s happening. I just want to watch something with ppl around that doesn’t make everyone uncomfortable

I swear it feels like I’ve seen less sex scenes than I did when I was younger, and way less harsh too. At least when it’s a consensual man and woman sex scene anyway. I’ve been thinking the lGBT ones have become more intense and hotter compared to the straight ones that feel a little timid to me.

Sharon we have all seen your v***** what are you talking about

Sharon Stone loves to hear herself talk

Sharon is just too old now. She’s yelling at clouds. Time’s have changed.

She showed her snatch on screen 30 years ago, get outta here

The hypocrisy is astounding

I saw the scene where she sucked on joe pesci d*** in c*****

What movies are she watching?

What specific sex scenes are she talking about. I want to watch them. Strictly for research purposes.

the one interrogation scene in basic instinct sure left nothing to the imagination.

People used to be horny, dammit! What happened to this country?

My… this water boiling device is a very opaque obsidian shade.

I saw Basic Instinct in the theater. Big screen beaver flash.

entertainment news has ruined movies altogether. theres no mystique anymore. movie magic is what first year film students try to achieve then abandon completely once they have their style cut out for them. its got no teeth, and everything is superficially safe. blockbusters are dead, the mcu needs to die, and those old resurrected-by-a-major-corporation franchises can never compare to their original works. for that matter, there is no originality left, they keep remaking old films and rebooting films to make original stories seem that much more rare and impactful than they are.

Ah, the new American Puritanism rearing its ugly head again. Such prudes

I fast forward too. I know it’s fake and if I want to get off p*** exists.

Miss Basic Instinct really said that? Self awareness is -10000. Those sex scenes are still some of the more explicit I’ve ever seen.

She's clearly never seen MacGruber. The sex scene in that film is pure passion. Not harsh whatsoever.

wasnt she the one responsible for the Qatari Coup D'Etat back in the 90s? After the Emir saw her movie Basic Instinct and met with her in Geneva :)

She should watch bridgerton

Someone just watched heated rivals lol

Same. There is no decency anymore.

This seems to be the way with this older generation of entertainers. I just read recently that Chaka Khan said singers that do the most physicalities on stage are just covering up bad vocals, and SHE wasn't a visual spectacle. Mmhmm okay. Or maybe some people like to be fully entertained and don't always want to pay a bunch of money to see someone be whatever she considers "classy." Sharon Stone paved the way for s*** shit in movies and now she's all bitter that it's progressed and not everyone is a prude about it.

I don't think they've gotten any more gratuitous or revealing. It's been this way since the 60s when the Hays Code was let go. The one benefit of today's sex scenes is that they are often shot using a scene coordinator who makes sure that the actors are comfortable with everything and advocate for them in all aspects of shooting the scenes.

Methinks the lady doth detest European cinema at-large. No, let me try again. Ahem. Methinks the lady doth detest being sexually exploited as a child on screen. /uj Well anyways, depends on the project. But I do wonder her thoughts about French cinema. Some movies that come to mind, The Piano Teacher, Fat Girl, Murmur of the Heart for instance.

Menopause happened.

I fast forward all sex scenes cus they make me uncomfortable lol

Wow…Basic Instinct and Sliver

Speak it, Queen!

Clearly she's never seen the frotting scene from Heated Rivalry