Raquel Welch's 'One Million Years BC' role, which launched her into sex symbol status, almost didn’t happen
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Raquel Welch nearly turned down the role of bikini-clad cavewoman Loana in "One Million Years B.C." which propelled her to international sex symbol status.
The film, a remake of the 1940 movie of the same name, is set in a fictional prehistoric time period in which cavemen lived alongside dinosaurs. The then 26-year-old actress had a contract with 20th Century Fox, which wanted to loan her to U.K.-based Hammer Studios for the project. Ashley Hume is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to ashley.hume@fox.com and on Twitter: @ashleyhume
"I told (Fox’s studio head) Dick Zanuck I didn’t think I was going to do it because it was a dinosaur movie and I didn’t want to be caught dead in a dinosaur movie," Welch told Fox News Digital in 2017.
She continued, "And he was not sympathetic to that."
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