Sharon Stone, 68, recreates her infamous Basic Instinct scene 34 years after the X-rated moment shot her to fame

Sharon Stone recreated her infamous Basic Instinct scene as she posed for a glossy magazine shoot on Wednesday – 34 years after the X-rated moment shot her to fame.

The actress, 68, spoke to ELLE Spain in a special issue for its 40th anniversary where she reflected on her career and looked stunning in the accompanying snaps.

One image saw her posing in just a green trench coat on a chair as she showed off her toned legs. 

It was reminiscent of the iconic police questioning scene in which her sexy killer character Catherine Tramell stars.

The famous interrogation part in Basic Instinct saw Sharon's character Catherine quizzed by officers, including Michael Douglas. 

Amid the bombardment of questions, Catherine distracts them when she uncrosses and 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.

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, Sharon 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'.

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.

In Wednesday's interview with ELLE Spain, Sharon revealed the impact that her ill health had on her career as she said the 'offers dried up' after she suffered a stroke and a brain haemorrhage.

The actress was forced to learn to walk, talk and read again but her previously flourishing career had 'disappeared' by the time she had recovered.

Sharon reflected on the setbacks she faced 25 years ago in the interview.

'Against all odds, I managed to recover, but the job offers disappeared.

'At that time, if you were a woman and something happened to you, you were finished,' she recalls. 

'People don't know, or tend to forget, invisible disabilities. I think that women who are considered beautiful and intelligent are perceived in a very specific way, almost as if one thing cancels out the other.

'People find it very difficult to understand that I am a fragile artist, physically small, shy, private, lonely, sweet, delicate and empathetic.'

She has managed to turn things around however. The Hollywood star has two films pending release, is finishing an exhibition in Prague and has just played a powerful Hollywood executive in Euphoria.

Sharon had previously revealed that she allegedly lost millions in savings while recovering from the debilitating 2001 stroke.