Vanity Fair cover
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.
Fairlady cover
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‘Ridiculous expectations’
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.
EW interview
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.
Rosamund Pike interview
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.
Time Out London interview
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.’
Telegraph interview
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
Pike 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
Pike 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.
Rosamund Pike interview
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.
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.
W cover
Pike 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.
W interview
Pike is interviewed for W and discusses being a Bond girl, learning to box, and moving to L.A. On her Gone Girl role:
I do remember saying to David [Fincher], ‘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.”
Tabloid rumors untrue
Pike says rumors regarding her wedding to Wright being called off are untrue:
I still have no idea why Joe called off the wedding. He was never clear about it. Part of what makes it so confusing. Our Save the Date cards had been sent out; Save the Date cards which had a 1950s-style picture of the two of us in LA, taken by a friend at Christmas, done like an old-fashioned postcard with slightly unreal colours – we’d both designed it and the design was to make people laugh! Which it did! – but no invitations. My mother had to write to everyone to say that the wedding was no longer going to take place.
She says that reports she had sent wedding invitations featuring them in a hot tub are inaccurate, as are reports Wright was seen in a lapdancing club around the time the engagement was called off.