"It’s not that I wanted to go into the male mentality, but into the duality. There’s a duality in every man and every woman. And when you have a homosexual man who’s a movie critic and he wants to make himself into a woman who somehow resembles a film goddess, like the women in film from 1935-1945, and then you have to watch how she interacts with these young people who have know idea who they’re really dealing with. The film never could embrace the different layers of complications of what’s going on with Myra/Myron…"
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On her role in the cult classic film Myra Breckenridge in “The GQ&A: Raquel Welch” in GQ (February 10, 2012)
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Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch (born Jo Raquel Tejada; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress and singer.
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