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Rosamund Pike is an English actress born in London in 1979. While studying English literature at Oxford University she appeared in several UK TV shows. In 2001 she was cast as a double agent in the James Bond film, Die Another Day. She has also appeared in The Libertine, Johnny English Reborn, The Worlds’ End, Jack Reacher and Gone Girl. She has one son, Solo, from her relationship with Robie Uniacke.

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1 Feb, 2015

Vanity Fair cover

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Pike appears on the cover of the February 2015 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. She talks about her partner Robie Uniacke, strange fan encounters, and the sex scene in Gone Girls with Harris.

I spent more time in front of the camera on that film than in my entire career to date, because he’s shooting five to six hours of footage a day, and over a hundred days shooting—that mounts up.

Oct 2014

‘Ridiculous expectations’

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Pike tells the print edition of Spectrum magazine that people expect too much from marriage:

People have ridiculous expectations of a mate. In my grandmother’s day, you wouldn’t expect your husband to fulfill the same need in you as your sister, or girlfriends, or colleagues at work. You’d have different needs met by different people. Now we want all our needs met by one person, and I don’t believe that’s possible. Or rather, it is, but I don’t think it’s universally achievable.

3 Oct, 2014

EW interview

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Pike is interviewed for Entertainment Weekly:

I wanted to be an actress since I was really, really small … Film wasn’t in my head; I didn’t see it as feasible. I just didn’t know anything about it. I didn’t know where film came from when I was under 10. I just thought I’d be a stage actress.

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Schager interviews Pike for Esquire about her role in the film Gone Girl and the work the cast and crew put into the film.

It’s every single scene. Neil Patrick Harris and I would do 35 takes of getting in and out of a car to get the right level of smoothness and then, in fact, I think that scene’s never even in the movie. You do watch David’s films back, and having now worked with him, I watch them in a different way, because I can feel the careful labor that’s gone into them. I understand it. And with voice over, too. You watch Fight Club, and the reason that voice over bores into your skull is because it’s carefully, carefully constructed. When we were doing the voice over for Gone Girl, we’d go in and get the line just how we wanted it, and if we didn’t like a single word, we’d go in and make a puncture hole and insert a different version of a single word, to get every nuance we wanted to explore. I love working in that kind of detail. It’s really thrilling.

2 Oct, 2014

Time Out London interview

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Pike is interviewed for Time Out London about auditioning with Fincher, breaking out of her dark Gone Girl character off the set, and watching the completed film:

The second time, I said to Fincher: ‘I really like it.’ He’s like: ‘I think you need therapy.’

1 Oct, 2014

Telegraph interview

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Pike is interviewed about Gone Girl for The Telegraph.

For me it was a just a joy to play a woman who doesn’t have to be palatable all of the time.

Glamour cover

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gone-girl-rosamund-pike-glamour-magazinePike appears on the cover of the October 2014 issue of Glamour magazine. She talks about sex scenes, doing magazine covers while pregnant, and doing kids and career at once.

The question is really why do so many women’s careers take off just as they have children? Is it because you are risking everything in your relationship and the risk taker in you carries through into your professional life? You have less time to worry and overanalyze—maybe that’s it. Or the huntress instinct to provide for your family is awoken. [Either way,] with children you spend so much time reexperiencing the world as a child experiences it, and that has a nourishing effect on your imagination—in my job, imagination is key.

British Vogue cover

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VOGUE-October14-cover-1280_320x480Pike appears on the cover of the October 2014 issue of British Vogue magazine. The cover photo is shot by Alasdair McLellan and styled by Kate Phelan. She talks about how she went from Oxford graduate to Bond girl.

29 Sep, 2014

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Pike and Meyers discuss her sex scene with Harris on the film Gone Girl on Late Show with Seth Meyers.

That is when it feels highly awkward. It goes from mildly inappropriate to totally inappropriate.

Rosamund Pike on Rehearsing Sex Scenes with Neil Patrick Harris for Gone Girl

27 Sep, 2014

Casting choice

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Fincher comments on why he cast Pike in Gone Girl:

Rosamund was someone that I had seen in four or five different movies over 10 years, and I never got a bead on her. I never got a sense of who she was. And I pride myself on being able to watch actors and sort of know instinctively what their utility belt is, and I don’t have that with Rosamund. I didn’t know what she was building off of. There was an opacity there and it was interesting.

26 Sep, 2014

What We Did On Our Holiday

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Pike stars as Abi in the comedy directed by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin, based on the BBC show Outnumbered. Abi and her husband, Doug (David Tennant), hide the tension in their marriage as they travel to the Scottish Highlands to meet Doug’s terminally ill father, Gordie (Billy Connolly). As they focus on their marital troubles, their daughter fulfills a bizarre dying wish by Gordie and forces them to confront their issues. Co-starring Ben Miller and Emilia Jones.

When I read What We Did On Our Holiday I just thought, this is brilliant. I knew that these guys, Andy and Guy, have such an indelible sense of good taste, great sense of humor and just this really original way of working.

Gone Girl

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In the thriller based on the novel written by Gillian Flynn and directed by David Fincher, Pike plays the role of Amy, a missing woman suspected to have been murdered by her husband. Co-starring Ben Affleck and Neil Patrick Harris.

There were definitely moments when I felt very uneasy with how much power Amy had. And the interesting thing is, my reaction was to laugh, to get sort of uncontrollable giggles. That was the most curious part of playing her: At the point where she’s at her most powerful, it unnerved something in me.

Gone Girl | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX

Sep 2014

Variety cover

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rosamund-pike-variety-coverPike appears on the cover of September’s Variety. She talks about paying her way through drama school, appearing naked in Hitchcock Blonde, working with Fincher, and plans to take a break from acting to have her second child. On the Gone Girl role that A-list actresses from Reese Witherspoon to Olivia Wilde had wanted:

I was unbelievably excited and unbelievably scared. You suddenly feel so small. I thought, ‘I’m embarking on this thing I’ve always wanted.’ … Someone is giving me that chance, which is something I’ve wanted since I’ve been a tiny girl.

15 Aug, 2014

Hector And The Search For Happiness

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Pike stars as Clara in the romantic comedy directed by Peter Chelsom and based on the novel by Francois Lelord. Clara’s boyfriend, Hector, travels across the world to seek happiness, and realizes that it is only with Clara that he will find what he is looking for. Co-starring Simon Pegg.

I really liked it.  I knew it wouldn’t be a major commitment for me—the Clara portion is contained.  I felt that it was the sort of thing that whenever it was ready to go, I could fit it in.  Simon and I did know about this when we went into The World’s End.  We sort of said, “The next six months, we’ll get to work together.”  Which is great.  And we have this very easy, very joyous friendship.   It’s really nice.

Hector and the Search For Happiness US Release TRAILER 1 (2014) - Rosamund Pike, Simon Pegg Movie HD

11 Jul, 2014

A Long Way Down

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Pike plays the character Penny in Pascal Chaumeil’s adaptation of Nick Hornby’s dark comedy. Penny interviews four strangers who met on the roof of London building, planning to kill themselves, on her talk show. Criticizing them, she only manages to make them more depressed. Co-starring Toni Collette, Pierce Brosnan, Imogen Poots, and Aaron Paul. On working with Brosnan again after Die Another Day:

He’s a truly wonderful man … It’s lovely to reminisce and laugh about all that silliness.

A Long Way Down - Official Trailer

Jul 2014

The World’s End

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Pike plays the character Sam in the sci-fi comedy directed by Edgar Wright. Sam joins a group of friends attempting a pub crawl that they failed to complete in high school. As they drink their way through the town of Newton Haven, they uncover a plot to replace the human race with androids. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, and Eddie Marsan co-star.

Often you’re doing sort of action films and you’re supposed to look very hard and very serious for your fight scenes. It was a bit of a relief to look like a prat.

3 Jul, 2014

Esquire feature

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Pike appears in Esquire for a photo shoot and interview.

To be made to laugh is one of the greatest things on Earth and to be in the company of people who do that the best – like Simon (Pegg) and Nick (Frost) – is the best. It’s good for the soul.

6 Jun, 2014

Expecting second child

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A rep confirms Pike and Uniacke are expecting their second child. The couple are still in no rush to be married.

It is interesting to break all the rules. I’m not married, I have a baby, and it feels infinitely more right.

1 May, 2014

W cover

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rosamund-pike-covers-w-magazinePike appears on the cover of the May 2014 issue of W magazine. She talks about her role in Gone Girl and being chosen by David Fincher.

I do remember saying to David, ‘I know you know I have this character in me; you zeroed in on me for good reason.’ With David Fincher, it’s like being X-rayed—he sees things that you may not want anyone to see. Now I have to prove him right—I have to show the world that I’m as dark as he thinks I am.