Broadcast this Sunday January 12, 2025 at 11:05 p.m. on Arte, the documentary Sharon Stone, the survival instinct touching brush bore him as a free woman with impressive strength of character.
On May 7, 1992, a 34-year-old young woman walked the red carpet on the Croisette alongside Oscar winner Michael Douglas (then paid 24 times more than her). Almost unknown before the screening of Basic Instinct at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, Sharon Stone leaves the room as a star. “Fans stole my outfits, my contacts, my toothbrush. They robbed my suite”she remembers. The birth certificate of an icon of the seventh art, as well as the starting point of the exciting and even moving Sharon Stone, the survival instinct. Narrated by Julie Gayet, this documentary rich in little-known anecdotes and archive interviews brilliantly retraces the life of the actress.
The cover Playboy by Sharon Stone in 1990
For as long as she can remember, Sharon Stone has always wanted a career on film sets. “My mother said that when I came out of her womb, I was already an actress”she mentions. Arriving from her rural Pennsylvania, this budding actress is confronted, upon her arrival in Hollywood, with the sad reality of a patriarchal system fond of stereotypes. The environment then only sees in it its advantageous plasticity and locks it in shackles of “girlfriend, mistress, scatterbrained blonde or fragile woman”. Shy by nature, but above all very intelligent, she chooses to conform to the image that is given to her. In July 1990, she created a completely uninhibited character and posed nude on the cover of Playboy.
Sharon Stone, Golden Globe for Best Actress for Casino
Already excellent in her duality against Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recallshe then sees Basic Instinct the dream opportunity to exist in the guise of a “brilliant psychopath”. Despite the success of the film, clichés continue to die hard. But she never misses an opportunity to establish herself, to the point that the studios nickname her “the biggest balls in Hollywood”. She fights to prove her talent… until the consecration against Robert De Niro in Casino in 1995. A Golden Globe for best actress in her pocket, she tried all genres. Before a very serious brain hemorrhage put an end to his career. Struggling to find interesting roles, Sharon Stone reviews her priorities: her family, her health, her battles (particularly against AIDS). At the time of the #MeToo movement, she publicly discusses “her pedophile grandfather” as much as the systemic aberrations of Hollywood. In this environment, she has “seen it all”. And she “survived” !
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