Stone goes bold for 'Basic Instinct 2'

Stone's nude scene occurs two-thirds into the film, but a sex scene in the beginning of the movie is raising eyebrows too, according to newsweek.com.

She said: "I felt we should hold off on the full nudity for a while in the movie and then I thought that when I ultimately did do the nude scene, it should be done in a startling way that would be disturbing and threatening. By the time the film is released, I will be 48 and I wanted to do the nudity in a way that's quite brazen.

"I wanted her to be very masculine, like a man in a steam room, and I wanted the audience to have a moment where they realise she's naked and then realise she's a forty-something woman and naked."

A critic at a film festival said: "Sharon is a strong-willed woman with many opinions and she is not afraid of telling you what her opinion is. A lot of it was water off a duck's back though, because I am very disciplined when I make a film."