80-year-old actress, Joan Collins, regrets not taking the role of Jill Masterson in 1964's
Goldfinger. She recently told the
Daily Mail, "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. 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 b**chy to Shirley."
In the film, James Bond (played by Sean Connery) is surprised to find Masterson's (Shirly Eaton) lifeless dead body on a hotel's bed, covered from head-to-toe in gold paint.
Special agent OO7 (Sean Connery) has just come face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time. And now he'll have to outwit and outgun this powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Know - and obliterate the world economy.
GOLDFINGER was directed by Guy Hamilton, from a screenplay written by Richard Maibaum and Paul Dehn. The cast included: Sean Connery as James Bond (007), Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore, Gert Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger, Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson, Harold Sakata as Oddjob, Tania Mallet as Tilly Masterson, Bernard Lee as M, Cec Linder as Felix Leiter, Martin Benson as Mr. Solo, Desmond Llewelyn as Q and Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny.
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