Hollywood legend Raquel Welch has reportedly claimed that Jessica Alba and Megan Fox get no respect from the film studios for their movie roles.
The 69-year-old actress made her comments in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, in which she praised the old Hollywood studio system, when actors were given contracts with top studios such as Warner Bros, MGM and 20th Century Fox.
She said: ‘I wasn’t working in the time of the studio system, where there were plenty of parts to do and parts that were appropriate for you – not parts from left-field where you had to somehow figure out, ‘How I am going to do this’.
‘They do that now with Jessica Alba sometimes and Megan Fox and they get no respect.’
Welch is currently promoting her autobiography, Raquel: Beyond The Cleavage, and revealed that she is resigned to being seen as a sex symbol.
She said: ‘I am not a fool. I realised when I came along I wasn’t Meryl Streep who had been put into a bikini. I was somebody that got rocketed into the spotlight and superstardom overnight.
‘I knew this was going to give me an opportunity and I should make the best of it. I think that I managed to do that, but it was not easy.’
Despite being married four times the mother-of-two said that she didn’t want to write a salacious tell-all book.
She said: ‘You don’t have to do just some dirty-laundry book. I wanted to speak about the unspeakable, like menopause.
“What we really don’t need to talk about much has to do with plain old sex…”
