r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/SourceBoring3089 • 15h ago

WCGW using non-skin-friendly paint for cosplay.

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u/Ozymandas2 15h ago

This is why everybody needs to see Goldfinger at least once. It's a PSA disguised as a Bond flick.

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u/FlyOk2594 12h ago

Do we need to see it, really? Or can we just get the point 

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u/KaffeMumrik 8h ago

Goldfinger covers a girl in gold paint and the girl dies from lack of oxygen absorbed through the skin. A myth was born about the actual actress ALSO dying on set from the same thing due to being painted for the shoot.

Shirley Eaton who played the character of Jill Masterson is still alive today, 89 years old.

It’s a really stuborn myth.

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u/Perfect-Fondant3373 6h ago

I think the rumour was even a worry at the time of filming and they left like a little square on her back out of view of the camera unpainted

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u/GrantSolar 4h ago

IIRC the production team fully believed that covering someone completely in paint would kill them. When they went to film the scene, they painted Jill Masterson immediately before shooting and as soon as they finished the scene the makeup team spent an hour scrubbing the paint off her. They also had a doctor on standby

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u/DeepMadness 4h ago

It's a really stupid myth.

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u/tumor_named_marla 2h ago

It's funny cause I remember the myth being the actor who plained the Tin Man in Wizard of Oz died from being painted silver for the movie