RICHARD EDEN: I can be saucy at any age! Sharon Stone hits back after being criticised for recreating her iconic Basic Instinct scene (32 YEARS after starring in the film!)

When Sharon Stone reprised her crossed-legs pose from 1992 film Basic Instinct for social media this month, while wearing red lace underwear, she was criticised for being too old for such a saucy post.

Now the star, 66, has hit back, telling me: ‘We get to grow older. It’s ridiculous that you’re only supposed to be OK when you’re 20. What the f***.’

Speaking at a Cannes charity gala, she adds: ‘I was getting ready to give a speech about philanthropy. 

‘And this is what I was wearing under my clothes. Paris [her stylist] said, ‘Let’s take a photograph’. It wasn’t planned.’

The actress, 66, took to Instagram earlier this month to share the jaw-dropping image clad in red lace lingerie, 32 years after she famously starred as the sexy killer Catherine Tramell.

Sharon (pictured in Cannes this month) stars as sexy killer Catherine Tramell in the 1992 film 

The famous interrogation scene in Basic Instinct saw Sharon’s character Catherine quizzed by police, including Michael Douglas. 

Amid the bombardment of questions, Catherine distracts them when she uncrosses the recrosses her legs, leaving the men flustered seeing as she was underwear-free at the time.

The scene was highly controversial at the time, and now has gone down as one of the most infamous in movie history.

And the actress proudly showcased her incredible figure in the sexy lingerie from Bloomers Intimate, posing with her legs crossed in an ode to the legendary scene.

Despite the moment turning Sharon into an overnight sensation, the Academy Award nominee has maintained in the past that she was ‘tricked’ into exposing herself for the cameras.

In her memoir The Beauty of Living Twice, the 66-year-old described how she slapped her director Paul Verhoeven in fury and walked out of a preview of the erotic thriller after discovering his assurances that it wouldn’t show up on screen had been a lie and that the audience could — as she put it — ‘see all the way to Nebraska’.

Stone has  also been adamant she didn’t have any regrets about making the film

For his part, Verhoeven has vehemently dismissed her claims that she was taken by surprise in the leg-crossing scene.

He said: ‘Any actress knows what she’s going to see if you ask her to take off her underwear and point there with the camera.’

But the Hollywood veteran has also been adamant she didn’t have any regrets about making the film.

‘Regrets are like farts, you can’t get them back. Once they’re out, there’s stinky and gone,’ she quipped previously.