Sharon Stone has posed topless and recreated her risqué scene from the hit movie Basic Instinct in a new cover shoot for Vogue Portugal's Sex Issue.
The 61-year-old actress explained how she set out to make herself seem "f*******" to studio bigwigs during the early years of her career, but despite building a reputation as a Hollywood femme fatale insisted she doesn't consider herself a sex symbol.
"When I entered the business the term 'f*******' was used to see if you were employable," Stone explained in an interview with Vogue Portugal.
"The studio executives sat around a large table and discussed whether or not each of us was in fact 'f*******.' They thought I was not.
"I gave this some hard thought as I wanted to work, so I did a strategically planned semi-naked Playboy shoot. Did I fit the part? Obviously not. Did I use my brain to figure out how to appear 'f*******'? You bet. So no, is the answer. I didn't and I don't [feel like a sex symbol]."
