RAQUEL’S REVENGE

WHEN I made the movie Fuzz (1972) with Raquel Welch, I had top billing — and that p****d her off.

She told the producer: ‘I will not work with him. I will not be on the same stage.’

So I’d come to work, and Raquel’s double would be there instead, with her back to the camera. I’d say my lines to her and the director would say: ‘Cut!’

As I was driving out of the studio gate, the guard would phone in to say: ‘He’s leaving now,’ and Raquel would come in and say her lines to my double. We were never together in the same scene.