Raquel Welch dead: ‘Fantastic Voyage’ actress and sex symbol was 82
nypost.comWelch told The Post in 2012.“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.”Welch was named one of the “100 Sexiest Stars in Film History” by Empire magazine in 1995.
Despite her sex symbol status, she viewed herself differently.“I was happy that I had got a break so I could have my career, but at the same time, it was like: ’This isn’t me.
But this is what I have to do because this is my ticket to ride,’” she wrote of her “One Million Years B.C.” role in her memoir “Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage.”“I’m not in a position to just say: ‘Oh, no, wait a minute.
You’ve got it all wrong. I’d like to do Shakespeare.’”Hugh Hefner once said Welch was the “woman that I most wanted to have in the magazine” because she seemed “ageless.”“Raquel Welch, one of the last of the classic sex symbols, came from the era when you could be considered the sexiest woman in the world without taking your clothes off,” Hefner wrote in “Playboy: The Celebrities.”“She declined to do complete nudity, and I yielded gracefully.
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