Gone Girl’s Rosamund Pike On Being A ‘Naïve’ Bond Girl

Rosamund Pike may be getting a lot of attention now playing Amy Dunne in the hit literary adaptation ‘Gone Girl’, but she says it’s nothing compared to the media frenzy of being a Bond girl.

“I was not prepared when [‘Die Another Day’] hit,” explains the actress who appeared opposite Pierce Brosnan’s 007 in 2002, “Twelve years on, I wish I’d had the perspective then, that I had now.”

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Pike was just 23 when she made her movie debut in Brosnan’s last outing as James Bond, playing the icy seductress Miranda Frost, and she says she has no advice to offer prospective Bond girls looking to land a role in ‘Bond 24’.

“I was the most naïve candidate at the time that I did [‘Die Another Day’],” say Pike, “I had no agenda. I didn’t know what I was doing.”

"I just went in and saw a character. That’s all I saw was a character, and I played that character in the audition. I never got an idea of what a Bond girl should be, because I don’t think there is such a thing.”

Following her debut in Bond, Pike has had a steady rise to the top, appearing in unfussy roles in quality films like ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘An Education’, and ‘Made in Dagenham’, before taking on higher profile parts in blockbusters like ‘Wrath of the Titans’ and 2012’s Tom Cruise vehicle ‘Jack Reacher’.

Now she’s joined the pantheon of classic David Fincher characters as the mysterious Amy Dunne in ‘Gone Girl’, a role she feels will live on for a long time.

“Forever more, us actors in this film will be part of David Fincher’s canon,” she adds, “and that’s the most exciting thing at the moment.”

“The way people analyse ‘Fight Club’, people are going to be looking at ‘Gone Girl’ like that.”

Pike is being tipped for Oscar glory for her part opposite Ben Affleck in the Gillian Flynn adaptation, but there’s a long time between now and February 2015. One thing’s for sure though is that Pike has definitely escaped the curse of the Bond girl which has blighted the careers of many a starlet before her.

‘Gone Girl’ is in cinemas now.

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