I applaud her for that.)
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What do you remember about Farrah from the early days?
There was no artifice about her, no phoniness.
She had no idea of how beautiful and how attractive she was, Im sure….
Even after becoming a hit onCharlies Angels, she was never one that lurked in her dressing room.
I would be working with her on a set, and she was totally accessible.
How did the shoot for the poster come about?
One day I got a call from some guy in the Midwest from a poster company.
He said, Im doing this poster of Farrah Fawcett and Farrah said to hire you to shoot her.
Ive hired two photographers and they photographed her and she hates the pictures.
Can you walk us through the shoot?
I said, He wants you in a bikini and she said, I dont have a bikini.
She was only about 29, and just gorgeous in anything.
We took a lot of pictures.
Shed go in, get something out of the closet and Id find another background.
I knew I didnt have a picture that resonated with me even though she looked great.
I was running out of ideas and I was getting desperate.
Wed been there all day.
I said, You know how you look best.
Is there anything else that youve got that we havent shot?
The guy says he wants sexy.
So she said, Lemme go look around.
She comes to the door and shes standing in the doorway in that red suit.
And she said, What do you think of this?
It was like it was spray painted on her; I dont think it was a swimsuit.
I said, You know what?
I said, Farrah, just get comfortable and do your thing.
When she did the series of sitting-up poses, I said, Weve got it.
And I heaved a big sigh of relief.
What else resonates about the shoot?
I literally ran out of color film about the same time that I took that picture.
I knew I had it.
Somewhere in that last roll of film is the picture that were looking for.
She said, Im so tired of looking pretty and having this hair and makeup.
And she grabbed the garden hose and just held it up and drowned herself with a garden hose.
It was a totally innocent Farrah: Im so sick of looking pretty all day.
She just smeared her makeup, and it was the capper of the whole thing.
We had so much fun.
We just had a blast doing it.
The poster went on to adorn countless bedroom walls.
Did you two have any idea how popular it would be?
Neither Farrah or myself thought that this was a big deal.
I give Farrah all the credit for knowing how she looked best.
She knew how she photographed best and she knew what she was selling.
We shot 40 rolls of film and Farrah sent [the poster producer] six 35-mm slides.
She marked her favorite and second favorite; they went with her favorite.
Farrah picked that image and she was right on the money.
UPDATE: The image previously attached to this post was removed due to copyright issues.
