Brigitte Bardot unloads on 'hypocritical' #MeToo crusade

'60s sex symbol Brigitte Bardot is speaking out against the growing #MeToo movement, calling Hollywood's involvement "hypocritical" and "ridiculous."

Bardot got candid in her interview with French magazine Paris Match, asserting that Hollywood actresses have a long history of using their sexuality to advance their careers.

"Not women in general," she reportedly told the magazine, but in "the vast majority of cases" in Hollywood, actresses "come on" to producers "and then, so they'll be talked about, they say they were harassed."

Now 83, the film icon who first rose to fame in the 1950s says she found it "charming" when men complimented her physique: "I thought it was nice to be told that I was beautiful," or that she had a "nice" rear end, Bardot said.

Noting that she has never been sexually harassed, the retired actress said that the movement detracts from "important themes that could be discussed."

"In reality, rather than helping them, it hurts them," she said.

After leaving Hollywood in the early 1970s, Bardot became a devoted animal rights activist.