In the single most infamous movie scene in history in which a close-up of a large rodent was intimately filmed (while Sharon Stone uncrossed her legs), nothing was as it seemed.’
Although Sharon seemed very eager to show the rodent, apparently Paul Verhoeven — the director of Basic Instinct and other mind blowing movies (among which the most famous Dutch movie of all times, Turkish Delight (“Turks Fruit”)) — had “tricked” her into going all the way (as Sharon later claimed).
The Dutch director had convinced her to remove her undies because they somehow reflected light — Physics always was a major thing for Paul — and Sharon gladly obeyed because the reflection (whatever that word even meant) made her all itchy and scratchy down there.
But still, she was very surprised to see the beaver in that very scene on the big screen — this was not a David Attenborough documentary, you know.
It turned out that Verhoeven had also filmed her bare breasts and nipples — the brassiere interfered with the electro-magnetic effects in the room according to the director — and the short skirts were needed to prevent the occurrence of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen bridges.
(The electro-magnetic twist was handed to Verhoeven by Stone’s co-star Michael Douglas.)
In the end, Basic Instinct put Sharon Stone’s beaver on the map, and it basically saved the rodents from the edge of extinction. David Attenborough, on the other hand, kept harassing Verhoeven to be in the movie as well for a long time —
But according to Douglas, his nipples were not nearly as electro-magnetic.
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