Screen legend Brigitte Bardot marked her birthday on today with a call for her 'splendid twin' Sophia Loren to give up fur once and for all.
The French actress said the gesture by the Italian screen siren, who also turned 75 this week, would be the 'best gift she could offer me'.
Both actresses took the prudish Fifties by storm, becoming icons of the sexual liberation that shook the
Western world in the decades to come.But Bardot abandoned her film career in 1973, aged just 39, becoming a reclusive animal rights crusader and making recent headlines for fiery comments about Islam that landed her in court.
Back in the public eye on her birthday and star of a major Paris exhibition in her honour, Bardot sent her wishes to the voluptuous Loren, who turned 75 on September 20, but could not resist a chance to further her animal rights cause.
Sultry: Brigitte pictured in 1968
'I wish a happy birthday to Sophia Loren, my splendid twin, and I ask her to stop wearing fur - that is the best gift she could offer me,' she says.
The screen icons crossed swords in the mid-1990s when Bardot wrote to Loren over ads in which she modelled fur coats, accusing her of 'wearing a cemetery on your back'. The Italian actress never responded.
Bardot also said she had no reason to regret her own role as a screen goddess and sexual liberation icon. 'I regret nothing,' she said in the interview.
Half a century ago, Bardot's role as a 'demon-driven temptress' in the 1956 movie And God Created Woman caused a moral storm worldwide.
As Juliette, Bardot danced barefoot, sweaty and dishevelled to a mambo beat in a scene that became a defining moment in film and embodied the end of the prudish postwar era. But stardom proved too much to handle.
News footage at the Paris exhibition opening on Tuesday shows Bardot being mobbed at the Cannes festival by hysterical fans who are beaten back and sent flying to the ground by police as they tear at the star.
The French actress said the gesture by the Italian screen siren, who also turned 75 this week, would be the 'best gift she could offer me'.
Both actresses took the prudish Fifties by storm, becoming icons of the sexual liberation that shook the
Western world in the decades to come.But Bardot abandoned her film career in 1973, aged just 39, becoming a reclusive animal rights crusader and making recent headlines for fiery comments about Islam that landed her in court.Back in the public eye on her birthday and star of a major Paris exhibition in her honour, Bardot sent her wishes to the voluptuous Loren, who turned 75 on September 20, but could not resist a chance to further her animal rights cause.
Sultry: Brigitte pictured in 1968
'I wish a happy birthday to Sophia Loren, my splendid twin, and I ask her to stop wearing fur - that is the best gift she could offer me,' she says.
The screen icons crossed swords in the mid-1990s when Bardot wrote to Loren over ads in which she modelled fur coats, accusing her of 'wearing a cemetery on your back'. The Italian actress never responded.
Bardot also said she had no reason to regret her own role as a screen goddess and sexual liberation icon. 'I regret nothing,' she said in the interview.
Half a century ago, Bardot's role as a 'demon-driven temptress' in the 1956 movie And God Created Woman caused a moral storm worldwide.
As Juliette, Bardot danced barefoot, sweaty and dishevelled to a mambo beat in a scene that became a defining moment in film and embodied the end of the prudish postwar era. But stardom proved too much to handle.
News footage at the Paris exhibition opening on Tuesday shows Bardot being mobbed at the Cannes festival by hysterical fans who are beaten back and sent flying to the ground by police as they tear at the star.
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