It's hard to imagine anyone else playing the
role of Jill
Masterson in 'Goldfinger',
given the iconic status her gold painted body has engrained
in generations of movie-goes across the globe.
But back in 1963, producers had a different actress in mind rather
than Shirley Eaton.
Although she has penned four autobiographies,
British actress Joan Collins has just revealed that she was first
approached
for the part and why she had to turn it down.
"I was asked to do the Shirley Eaton part in the Sean Connery
Bond film Goldfinger - the classic role in which she is
naked and sprayed from head to foot in gold paint," Joan
told Richard Kay of the Daily Mail recently.
"It’s an amazing image and an amazing film but I
turned it down. I was pregnant at the time with my son Sacha.
Who knows? It could have altered the direction of my whole career
and I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I had done
it."
"I have never talked about it before and it’s not
in my new book because I didn’t want to be bitchy to Shirley."
