Basic Instinctdirector Paul Verhoeven blasts critics who call his new lesbian nun film 'blasphemy'

So I think the wordblasphemyin this case is stupid."

Verhoeven further defended his filmwhenVarietyaskedwhether he would ever consider using an intimacy director for his sex scenes.

“[The actors] themselves were the intimacy co-ordinators,” he told the outlet.

“I felt it.

Sometimes it might be necessary, but for the time being I believe not in France.”

Why this puritanism has been introduced it is in my opinion wrong."

“She knew exactly what we were doing,” the filmmaker said.

Then Sharon and I decided to do a similar sequence."

Verhoeven added that he and Stone “still have a pleasant relationship and exchange text messages.”

Bendettapremiered Friday at the Cannes Film Festival.