Raquel Welch, 76, breaks silence on THAT barely-there One Million Years B.C. costume
RAQUEL WELCH became an overnight sex symbol thanks to “crazy dinosaur movie” One Million Years B.C., and she has now admitted it was all thanks to one outfit in particular.
Raquel Welch opens up about being a Hollywood sex symbol
The film legend stripped down to just a “shammy” in the 1966 blockbuster, after landing the role of Loana.
In an interview with Access Hollywood, the 76-year-old revealed how her fame skyrocketed after filming wrapped.
When asked if her life changed, Raquel commented: “Oh my gosh! I was just there doing this dinosaur movie in the Canary Islands, up on a volcano, it was snowing and I’m wearing this little torn away shammy with a few fur bits left on it.”
The stunner continued: “Finally, we wrap the whole show and we go back to London because it was British production, and I get off the plane there and these photographers are everywhere and they are yelling my name.
Photographers are everywhere and they are yelling my name
“I thought, ‘Wow, they know who I am? All because I came here and did this crazy dinosaur movie?’ It was the costume, it was wham, bam and woah!”
During her candid chat, Raquel claimed Hugh Hefner was far from happy with her Playboy shots back in the 1970s.
She confessed: “I said, ‘Yes, I’ll do it but you do understand I don’t do nudes’. He said, ‘Well, that’s fine, that’s fine’.
“Later he was not too thrilled with the fact there was so little showing. I thought there was plenty!”
Raquel Welch through the years
Raquel was promoting her new TV series Date My Dad, in which she plays glamorous granny Rosa.
“I use an awful lot of myself just spontaneously in the role. I got the script, and I’m reading it, and it says, ‘Sexy grandmother’, and I’m going, ‘Oh, I’m a GILF?’”
She had wowed in a skintight leopard print dress for the appearance, while her tresses were worn down in a voluminous ‘do.