![]() ![]() However, she did discuss how hard it was to avoid being typecast, writing in her 2010 autobiography Beyond the Cleavage that “all else would be eclipsed by this bigger-than-life sex symbol”. “I remember James Stewart telling me a long time ago never to avoid your fans or the things that your fans like about you. I must have looked at that photo one million times. “Almost every day I get copies of the photo sent to me for an autograph. It was a major event in my life so why not talk about it? ![]() “I’m often asked if I get sick of talking about that bikini,” she said. She said she did not mind being widely known for the fur bikini she wore in One Million Years BC. ![]() Welch said her first ambition had been to be a ballet dancer, only to learn at 17 that she “really didn’t have the figure for ballet”. She also had a memorable cameo on the TV sitcom Seinfeld, in the episode The Summer of George (1997). Subsequent major roles included the title role in Myra Breckinridge (1970) and a key part in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge (1974). Before that I was not much more than an extra.” In a rare recent interview, with the Scottish Sunday Post in 2017, Welch said her two 1966 hits “made a huge difference to my career. My first big breakthrough part in One Million Years BC, they died my hair blond. She also said that when she set out as an actor, she was told “that if I wanted to be typecast, I would play into” her Hispanic background. ![]()
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