From her trendy swimsuits to her Cher performance and her Playboy shoot, Raquel Welch was always grabbing headlines.
because of her experience wearing wigs while working in the entertainment industry — and she wanted to help women feel beautiful.in 2012 about her most iconic roles ahead of a special exhibition of her work by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett CollectionThe Richard Fleischer-directed sci-fi movie “Fantastic Voyage” made Welch a star.
“There was this [bikini] picture that came out that caused all the stir,” Welch told The Post. “I had been away shooting the film in the Canary Islands, and it was very remote. By the time I got back, everybody seemed to know who I was. I couldn’t have been happier, really, or more surprised. How was this possible?”
“I did get to wear pants, because I had this idea of how I wanted to stab this one guy, that I could jump on him. And I couldn’t do that with a skirt,” Welch revealed.©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett CollectionWelch’s role in “Myra Breckinridge” came with another famous swimsuit: Her American flag-inspired monokini.
“Everyone on set was going, ‘Uh-oh, here they come,’ standing there watching. And Faye gets out her fan and starts fanning herself, saying, ‘Darling, I adore your work.’ And I say, ‘Everything you do is genius!’ Everyone was so disappointed.” “I am my father’s daughter, and that’s just not the way you behave,” she explained. “You don’t do that if you are a certain kind of a woman, and that’s the kind of woman I was raised to be.”
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