Variety cover

Pike 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.