Sharon Stone worked for a decade in small parts before Total Recall and then Basic Instinct, which made her enormously famous on the strength of a single interrogation scene she has since said she was misled about during filming.
Casino is the achievement. Ginger is a genuinely tragic figure and Stone plays her deterioration across years without asking for sympathy, earning a Best Actress nomination.
The subsequent career was hampered by typecasting and then by a stroke in 2001 that she has described as costing her most of a decade of work and memory.
The Quick and the Dead and The Muse show the range she was rarely offered, and her memoir is candid about the industry’s treatment of her.
