Voice of Bond girls banned from events
Nikki van der Zyl, has been the voice of some of the most sultry Bond girls from Ursula Andress to Shirley Eaton, but is banned from events marking 50 years of 007 films as her presence might embarrass some stars.
Unknown to millions of James Bond fans, Nikki van der Zyl, was the voice behind the seductive utterances of many of the super-spy’s most glamorous conquests.
So when Ursula Andress emerged from the sea as Honey Ryder in a white bikini in Dr No, the first Bond movie in 1962, it was Zyl who spoke her lines, the Daily Mail reported.
And when Shirley Eaton played Jill Masterson, murdered by being coated in gold in 1964’s Goldfinger, it was also Zyl’s voice cinemagoers heard.
In fact, “revoice” artist Zyl, 77, has spoken for Bond girls Eunice Gayson (Sylvia Trench in 1963’s From Russia with Love), Nadja Regin (Bonita in Goldfinger), Claudine Auger (Domino Derval in 1965’s Thunderball), Mie Hama (Kissy Suzuki in 1967’s You Only Live Twice) and Francoise Therry (Chew Mee in 1974’s The Man with the Golden Gun).
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Therapy helped JK cope with pressures of fame
Famed author J.K. Rowling was “incredibly disoriented” and had to seek therapy to help cope with the pressures of living in the public eye after the success of Potter books.
The 47-year-old, who has sold more than 450 million books since publishing her first Harry Potter book 15-years-ago, said that she had turned to therapy while feeling at “rock bottom” when writing her first book in Edinburgh, where she was living in a bedsit with her young daughter and surviving on benefits. “And I had to do it again when my life was changing so suddenly — and it really helped,” the Daily Mail quoted Rowling as saying. The sudden and complete transformation of her life, coupled with a “tsunami” of begging letters from charities and members of the public, left her feeling desperate to help but overwhelmed, she said. — PTI
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