Burt Reynolds had sought advice from actress Raquel Welch after his iconic 1972 Cosmopolitan centerfold of him posing naked on a fuzzy bearskin rug that elevated his status as a Hollywood sex symbol.

At the time, Welch, star of the film One Million Years B.C., in which she had worn an unforgettable fur bikini, ... “I had never heard of Burt Reynolds before,” says Welch, 78.