“Thank God I’m not a politician, every country goes through a period where there are people trying to take over and others trying to oppose them. I’m a proud American, I love my country and of course I’m deeply concerned. This is the first time we have seen someone base his election campaign on a platform of hate and oppression.”. This is how Sharon Stone responded today at the Taormina Festival to a question about the political difficulties in America today, distancing herself from Trump without ever naming him.
Sixty-six years and sixty films to her credit, she has become a world icon and, certainly, very popular, also thanks to a scene, that of Basic Instinct, a 1992 erotic-neo-noir thriller by Paul Verhoeven in which, dangerously, she crosses her legs during an interrogation. Today the actress is in Italy as a guest of the 70th edition of the Taormina Film Festival directed by Marco Müller where she will be awarded this evening on the stage of the Teatro Antico with the Cariddi d’oro. Beautiful dressed in a long woven bandeau dress with a hood which also softly covered her head, the actress met the press and the public in a hotel in Taormina. “Yes it’s true that scene caused a scandal today it would be a completely ordinary, normal thing. And it’s not just that that has changed in Hollywood in the Studios, when I was shooting they made films worth fifty-sixty million dollars today only Blockbusters worth hundreds of millions. The advent of streaming has then changed things for the better because it allows you to make smaller films”.