Stone proud to bare all

Sharon Stone had no qualms about baring all for the steamy sequel to Basic Instinct because she is fed up with ageing actresses being restricted to unsexy roles.

The middle-aged star shamelessly flaunted her figure in the upcoming Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction in a bid to break the mould with her provocative character Catherine Tramell.

She says: "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 that she's a fortysomething woman and naked. Because we're not used to seeing that in movies.

"We're used to seeing Sean Connery and his granddaughter, you know what I mean? Or Mel Gibson and his daughter."