Sharon Stone doesn’t think much of the plan to reboot her most famous movie, Basic Instinct.
After all, Basic Instinct 2, released in 2006, with her reprising her role of murderous novelist Catherine Tramell, earned crushing reviews from critics and audiences alike. It earned just $5.9 million at the U.S. box office, compared to the 1992 original’s haul of $117.7 million.
“If it goes the way the one that I was in went, I would just say, I don’t know why you’d do it,” Stone said Monday on Today. “I mean, go ahead, but good f—ing luck.”
‘Basic Instinct 2’ starred Sharon Stone.
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Entertainment Weekly learned in July that Amazon MGM and producer Scott Stuber had obtained the rights to relaunch Basic Instinct and that Joe Eszterhas, who wrote the first two films, would write this installment. The Wrap, which first reported the news, noted that the movie would be “anti-woke” and that Stone might return.
“I’m at that stage where I already retired once, and I already died a couple of times,” Stone told Today. “I’m like, ‘What are you gonna do? Kill me again? Go ahead.'”
The star of movies such as Casino, Sliver, and the new Nobody 2 said that she had been extremely fortunate to have had “a very big career at one point.”
“I think it would be fair to say I pretty much owned the ʼ90s as an actress,” said Stone, who also appeared in Total Recall, Last Action Hero, and Intersection in the decade. “I stopped when I had a stroke. I had a massive stroke and nearly died, so I couldn’t work.”
In 2001, the actress suffered a stroke followed by a brain hemorrhage that she has said doctors explained gave her a “one percent chance of survival,” according to a February talk with PEOPLE.
The health crisis prompted her to reorganize her priorities, she said on Today.
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“When I reconsidered what value things had to me in life, I really wanted to have children and spend my life with them,” said Stone, the mother of three sons. “And I only really worked as much as I needed to support my family. But now my children have left the nest, and now I’m back to work.”
Now 67, the Oscar-nominated actress is considering her legacy in film.
“I want to leave it on the screen,” she said, “because it lasts forever, and I won’t. And I’m sure of that.”
Watch Stone’s full conversation on Today above.