India, Aug. 5 -- Veteran Hollywood star Michael Douglas has firmly denied actor Sharon Stone's recent claim that the two had an argument before they were cast together in the popular Gollywood film Basic Instinct (1992).

"He doesn't remember any argument in that timeframe," Michael's representative, Allen Burry, said in a statement to People magazine. "He actually only remembers seeing and meeting Sharon for the first time when he saw (director) Paul Verhoeven's screen test of her for Basic Instinct and (Michael) said, 'Absolutely, she's the one.'"

For the unversed, in a recent interview with Business Insider, Sharon reflected on her breakout role as Catherine Tramell in the 1992 erotic thriller and suggested that Michael was hesitant t...