Brigitte Bardot is the latest legendary French actress to denounce the #MeToo movement as the campaign against systemic sexual harassment continues to take effect in Hollywood.
The 83-year-old star has accused 'the vast majority' of actresses who complain about sexual harassment of hypocrisy and publicity seeking.
'The vast majority are being hypocritical and ridiculous,' Bardot told Paris Match (translated by Paris 24).
'Lots of actresses try to play the tease with producers to get a role. And then, so we will talk about them, they say they were harassed.'
Bardot said that she had never experienced sexual harassment in the workplace, and on the contrary 'found it charming when men told me that I had a nice little backside'.
'I was never the victim of sexual harassment. And I found it charming when men told me that I was beautiful or I had a nice little backside.'
Her remarks come after French star Catherine Deneuve caused a feminist backlash for signing an open letter that defended men's right to 'hit on' women.
Signed by 100 French women writers, performers and academics, and published by Le Monde newspaper last week, the letter condemned the #MeToo movement for becoming a puritanical 'witch-hunt' which threatened sexual freedom.
Deneuve went on to apologise to victims of sexual assault after the outrage, writing in a letter published on the website of French daily Liberation: 'I fraternally salute all the victims of these hideous acts who might have felt assaulted by the letter published in Le Monde.
'It is to them and them alone that I offer my apologies.'
The actress added that there was 'nothing in the letter' that said 'anything good about harassment, otherwise I wouldn't have signed it'.
Naomi Gordon is news writer mainly covering entertainment news with a focus on celebrity interviews and television.
