FILM star Sybil Danning was once one of the most erotic women in Hollywood. She starred in the 1983 film Hercules and graced the pages of Playboy.
The Austrian-American actress, 77, played voluptuous villain Ariadne in the adventure film opposite Lou Ferrigno as Hercules and Ingrid Anderson as the selfish Cassiopeia.
Sybil Danning is unrecognizable 41 years after starring in Hercules[/caption]
She played the lustful villain Ariadne in the adventure film[/caption]
Former siren Sybil is now looking far away from her flesh-flashing on-screen personas and prefers more subdued outfits, opting for blazer jackets and shoulder pads on the red carpet.
The groomer now has a chic short blonde bob and heavy bangs, but still turns heads decades later.
She appeared in a ten-page spread in the 1983 Playboy and went on to star in Chained Heat, Malibu Express, Reform School Girls and Stirba in the 1985 film, The Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf.
The B-movie star has appeared in nearly 80 films and TV shows in a career spanning five decades, including Rob Zombie’s Halloween and Grindhouse.
She was considered for the female lead in the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy, which went to Maud Adams, and co-starred with Christopher Lee and Raquel Welch.
Sybil told me The Washington Times in 2015 that she was “definitely not a scream queen.”
She said: “You know, there’s a series now with my wonderful dear friend Jamie Lee Curtis. She was a scream queen. She started the Halloween movies. To me, a scream queen is a victim. If you notice I’m victimizing in Howling.
“I like playing strong characters, and I like playing villains. I have always liked not to play a victim.”
About her biggest regret in her career, she previously said: “A lot of people don’t know, but I had a three-year contract with Paramount Studios under Sherry Lansing.
“While I was there I got a call from Sam Raimi. We were mutual admirers of each other’s work. He said, ‘Sybil, would you like to make a TV series?’ I said, ‘Sam, I can’t do a TV series. I have a three-year contract. I have a movie to make at Paramount.” He said, ‘Oh, okay.’
“He called me a few weeks later and said, ‘I’m sending a script. Maybe it’s something Paramount wants to do.” It was a beautiful female action leader.
“Then I wanted to talk to him about it. I called his office and they said, ‘He’s not here, he’s in New Zealand doing Xena: Warrior Princess, the new TV series.’ I said, ‘What?! Oh no!’.
“I don’t have many regrets in my life, but I’m an idiot for not doing that.”
Film star Sybil was once declared Cannes Sex Symbol of the year 1982.
She proudly accepted the award, saying at the time: “It’s a great compliment to be called a sex goddess. I know I have everything else.
“It’s very honorable to be called a sex symbol because I’m a woman and I want to be sexy and I love being sexy.
“I love sex and I love men.”
She continued: “Women who say, ‘Don’t take off your clothes,’ have a personal problem. They don’t take care of their body or don’t want to take care of their body because they don’t want to be beautiful.
“They don’t want to be beautiful because they don’t like themselves. I love myself. I used to be chubby. Years ago I would never have done the Playboy layout. I did something about it.”
Sybil claims she was “definitely not a scream queen.”[/caption]
The B-movie star has appeared in nearly 80 films and TV shows[/caption]
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