 Dawson also portrayed Ernst Stavro Blofeld, head of SPECTRE, in "From Russia with Love" and "Thunderball", although his face was never seen and his voice was redubbed by Austrian actor Eric Pohlmann.Zena Marshall, who played Miss Taro, was mostly attracted by the humorous elements of the script, and described her role as "this attractive little siren, and at the same time I was the spy, a bad woman", who Young asked to play "not as Chinese, but a Mid-Atlantic woman who men dream about but is not real".The role of Taro was previously rejected by Marguerite LeWars, the Miss Jamaica 1961 who worked at the Kingston airport, as it required being "wrapped in a towel, lying in a bed, kissing a strange man".