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Has it truly been 13 years since Sharon Stone first uncrossed her legs into our hearts in Basic Instinct? Alas, it has, but the wait for the sequel, delayed for years by legal squabbling between Stone and her producers, is soon over. What's better, the NY Daily News reports that Stone's sex scenes are so over the top in the UK-set Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction, it makes her performance in the first film look like Nanny McPhee with an ice pick (and for both you Instinct purists out there, spoiler alert):

For weeks now, Sony execs have been going back and forth with the ratings mullahs over Stone's various postures in "Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction."


We're not sure what they thought of the early scene in which a man is pleasuring Sharon while she's speeding along a cliffside road. (The drive doesn't end well for the guy checking under her hood.) But the MPAA did get hung up on some scorching orgy scenes. [...]

We're told that Stone refused to use a body double. "Believe me, she's still hot," says one guy who's seen the action.

We can only imagine how frustrating it is for a pro like Stone to deal with the MPAA's prudish, though violence-friendly, regulations, with seemingly endless arguments over how many members of a Manchester all-girl field hockey team constitute an actual "orgy" (they allowed 4 plus a goalie, with the added stipulation that at scene's end, at least two of them needed to perish by field hockey stick impalement.)