Rosamund Pike 'lands female lead in Gone Girl movie' - BBC News BBC News Rosamund Pike 'lands female lead in Gone Girl movie' 26 July 2013 Close share panel Image caption Pike will reportedly star opposite Ben Affleck in David Fincher's film Former Bond girl Rosamund Pike has won the coveted female lead role in the film version of hit novel Gone Girl, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Pike will reportedly star opposite Ben Affleck in David Fincher's film of Gillian Flynn's best-selling thriller. The Die Another Day actress is said to have beaten a host of stars to the role of Amy, a wife who goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary. The 34-year-old can currently be seen in British comedy The World's End. Pike previously appeared opposite Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher, with Carey Mulligan in An Education and with Keira Knightley in the 2005 film of Pride and Prejudice. Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain, Natalie Portman and Charlize Theron were among other leading actresses to have been linked to the role of Amy.

Readers across the world have been gripped by Flynn's third novel, which uses alternating first-person narration to pick apart a toxic marriage. Media captionGillian Flynn speaks to Jon Sopel about writing the script for the upcoming Gone Girl movie Affleck will reportedly play Nick, a journalist turned bar-owner who is suspected of killing his wife following her unexplained disappearance. Flynn sold the film rights to her novel to 20th Century Fox for a reported $1.5 million (£975,000) and has written the script for the big-screen version. Fincher previously directed the US film adaptation of hit Swedish crime thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. According to reports last week , the script for proposed follow-up The Girl who Played with Fire is currently being rewritten by Seven scribe Andrew Kevin Walker.

‘Gone Girl’ (and Now Oscar Nominee) Rosamund Pike On Landing the Role of a Lifetime | IndieWire ‘Gone Girl’ (and Now Oscar Nominee) Rosamund Pike On Landing the Role of a Lifetime 'Gone Girl' (and Now Oscar Nominee) Rosamund Pike On Landing the Role of a Lifetime Talk [Editor’s Note: This post is presented in partnership with Movies On Demand. Catch up on this year’s Awards Season contenders and past winners On Demand . Today’s selection is ‘ Gone Girl ." This interview originally ran in October.] If you were one of the many who didn’t know Rosamund Pike by name last year, chances are you probably do now. As the titular "Gone Girl" in David Fincher’s chilling adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s hit novel (Flynn also penned the script), Pike has been everywhere promoting the film and wowing everyone who made the thriller the top film of the weekend’s box office in the US.

The 35-year-old Brit made her onscreen debut as a Bond girl in 2002’s "Die Another Day," and has since gone on to appear in a number of high profile films including Joe Wright’s "Pride & Prejudice," "Wrath of the Titans" and the Tom Cruise vehicle "Jack Reacher." Despite all this activity, a plum leading role has evaded the actress until now. "Gone Girl" afforded Pike her first true opportunity to show the world her range — and as anyone who’s seen the film can tell you, her range is pretty staggering. The below interview is spoiler-heavy, so if you haven’t read the book or seen the film, we’d advise you to bookmark this page and revisit when you discover "Gone Girl’s" big reveal for yourself. Having not read the book, my jaw was open for the last hour of the movie. So congrats? [Laughs] That’s really exciting to hear. That’s an experience I can never have. I can never know what it’s like to not know what’s coming. Had you read the book before coming across the script?

I hadn’t read the book before talking to Fincher, so the whole thing came together which is actually probably good. If I had read the book, as an actress, you might have thought "Oh, I wonder if they’re going to make this into a movie?" And then I might have been hungry for it. And in fact, I heard that Fincher wanted to talk to me about something, and then I heard it was this and then I read it and the giddy cocktail of the two combined. I read it, devoured it while I was speaking to him. So I would read one-third of the book, then have a two-hour conversation with him. He watched you read it? Kind of. Via a Skype. He would say "Where are you now?" and "How far have you gotten?" We started to communicate and I found him very easy to talk to, I found him penetrating and his mind is obviously so sharp. It’s such a damn relief. He doesn’t deal with any of the bullshit that anyone else deals with. He’s going to look at you and see who you are. He’s not going to be skewed by anything he’s read.

He trusts his own instincts more than anyone I know, and that is very very valuable in this profession. His instincts were spot on with regards to your casting. I know. It’s disturbing. I said to him on the phone, "You’ve got this uncanny impression that you know I’ve got this part in me and I feel I have. I don’t know how the hell you know that." What did he say? He just smiled one of his enigmatic smiles. That’s it? I’m sure he must have told you since the reason why. I think he needed Amy to have that — I don’t know, I think I’ve been quite hard to decipher and he felt that, too. He had seen some of my work and liked it, but he wasn’t really able to pinpoint what my skill set was as an actor to really say, "she does this and she does that" — and that intrigued him because Amy has to have that. She’s so protean. Or maybe he just saw a sociopath. [Laughs] Were you confident that you had the skill set required before embarking on the project? I know I’ve got loads that has never been tapped. That’s all.

You spend 35 years on the planet and you’ve been through some shit and you feel there is a lot of ripe stuff ready to be channeled somewhere. It could be comedic, it could be romantic. This film is coinciding with the UK release of the film that I did called “What We Did On Our Holiday,” which is an improvised comedy where I’m a mother with three kids. So that was what I shooting when I started talking to David. I’m interested in this character and the narcissistic projections that we project onto the people that we meet. The idea that with Amy, she’s got such a fragile sense of self born of her, this slightly corrupt relationship with her parents where they’ve created a character based on her who is not really her, it’s an improved version of her. I mean, imagine. You’ve got your parents who say, "We’re going to turn you into a book, honey, but we’re just going to make you a little bit better than you really are." That thing where you’ve screwed up the baseball game at your school — "We’re just going to make sure this kid in the book gets picked for X team," or whatever.

So, that’s a mirror held up to you of everything you could be and everything you failed to be. That’s gonna make you narcissistic at your core. It’s usually someone with a very fragile hold of who they are and they need that constant reflection of someone else and that’s what Amy demands in a relationship. She needs a person who appreciates her brilliance. It’s very repellent in some ways, but more common than people think. Did you relate at all to Amy before learning of the big twist? I remember talking to David and saying "I don’t know if I’m right for this girl" and "I know I’m being asked to like her and I can see what’s admirable about her." This is before you learned about her actual intensions? Yeah, obviously there was this slick woman. I said, "It’s too good to be true, I don’t buy it. I know I’m being asked to like her, but I don’t trust her." And he just sort of said, "Keep reading." [Laughs] And that’s when you got her? And then there’s a sense, when you get to her truth, that you could relax with the book and that’s generally how I feel with people.

I can take if you’re an asshole, I can take it, but I need to know if that’s your truth. I need to know that’s you and you might be an interesting asshole. I don’t mind all assholes. [Laughs] That could look terrible in print. I’ll be sure to include your laugh. [Laughs] You’ve got to know you’re getting to the core of who someone is. You can work out whether you can go on the journey with them or be friends with them or whatever. I’m guessing you didn’t really gain the weight, or did you? I did! So you did shoot the film in order? No, we didn’t shoot it in order. I started with some of the heavy stuff, but then I had two weeks off to lose it and then I had to gain it again. Oh my god. I had Christmas break, two weeks to gain it again. And then I had time to lose it again. It’s like turning your body into a chemistry lab. It’s wasn’t like 30 pounds that we’ve seen people do in the past. But it was very apparent. Yeah, it’s like you’re on a sugar high or you’re hungry.

It’s another emotional stress of the job, I think. It’s not entirely healthy. Before your casting was announced, there was so much mania surrounding the role of Amy. What I found so interesting was that there was none surrounding the casting of Ben [Affleck]. Mania–you mean the expectations? The trades just made it into this competition. When your casting was finally reported, we’d hear how you "beat out" other high profile actresses for the part. I don’t think that’s true. I don’t actually think the ‘beating’ thing was actually how it was. They like the story of competitive women I think. To me it speaks to the disparity of really juicy female roles in Hollywood. You don’t hear this kind of talk when it comes to male characters. No, that’s a very good point. I think probably the image of all these vicious actresses that are trying to beat each other out of the way is an image they want to feed to the public. It’s funny, someone will try to galvanize me into fighting for a part by saying "so-and-so wants this part," but that never works for me. It has to be a through line.

I will go for a role but it’s never within the interest of elbowing someone else out of the way. I don’t really think like that. It’s very singular. I’ll be disappointed as anyone not to get something and to face rejection and all of that. I’ve had all of that quite frequently. But, it’s never been about, ‘Oh I’ve got to get this instead of her this time.’ That’s never the motivation. But people try to use it to incite your competitive instinct. I’ve been with a director. I know how directors work. They need someone that will work with their vision. It’s not about a performing monkey in a ring and who does the best trick. And that’s why we have no control. And it’s tough because that’s what David says. About "House of Cards," he says there’s no dearth of brilliant actors who could be in this series. There are so many brilliant actors, but it’s the one that will make sense of the character. That’s what is hard for actors to learn and accept. "Why didn’t I get it, what was wrong with me?" It’s not what was wrong with you, it was what was right about somebody else.

I’ve gotten a better perspective as I’ve gotten older, you see. Would you have been ready to embody Amy if the role had come to you five years ago? Five years ago, maybe. When I was 25, no. But, I think I’ve had some big, pretty challenging roles on stage in the UK that stretched me a lot as an actress. So, I have been ready. But I don’t think I would have taken on this role with any sort of success if it hadn’t been for Fincher. He’s a great navigator. It’s very nerve-wracking. You’re trying to slide down this razor of all these different — you don’t want to go into anything that’s camp, anything that’s unconvincing. You’ve got to know where she’s coming from. There can’t be anything superficial about it and yet it’s extreme. Brilliantly extreme. [Laughs] You’ve got to navigate this razor without cutting yourself open. It’s fun but it’s daunting. There is that feeling. You read that character in the book and you think, how would one embark on this, because in the book obviously you’ve got an internal monologue. You can get inside her head all the time.

Albeit a constructed one. But then, that’s the brilliance of Gillian’s script. She’s managed to take it out of the internal monologue and get you to understand these characters. I think what she’s done with Nick Dunne is amazing. Ben is amazing in this. The textures of that man are brilliant. Going back to the trades, when your casting was announced, many people in North America pegged you as this unknown actress. I found that odd, considering all you’ve done. What was that like to be considered an ingenue in North America? I was reading an interview with Kelly Macdonald where she says, "I’ve been up and coming for so long, when the fuck am I gonna come?" [Laughs] Did you feel the same way? No, but I did hear people say that. But in some ways it gives you a sort of freedom. It means no one has a read on me. I can surprise people. Then someone from Taiwan today said, "Everyone knows you from the Bond film, is this going to surprise people?" I was like "I fucking hope so." [Laughs] That’s the idea: If you’ve got any fan base, you’ve got to surprise them.

But I guess I’m not someone who is in the tabloids, and I don’t have such a spectacular relationship with a high profile person that puts me in US Weekly or anything, so I guess to the general public, I have to remember that people aren’t going to movies as much as they used to. I suppose some of us wonder that all of these actors that people know, you think do they go to the movies or are their lives stories? Are you ready for that type of attention? Do you think that’s going to happen? Of course it’s gonna happen! But, I’ve always been immune so far. I’ve been in pretty big movies. You must have known this would happen given the role and Fincher’s involvement. It happened to Rooney Mara. Did that happen? Did she get more famous? [Laughs] Of course! Because your life is about to change. Do you really think so? Of course it is! [Laughs] I know, actually, because I’m about to have my second baby. Yes, I don’t really know. I kind of have faith. I’ve lived in the same city all my life and I have faith that I can continue my everyday life.

You should probably hire an assistant if you don’t already have one. That’s good advice. I definitely need somebody. I definitely need some assistant somewhere down the line. It’s a bit chaotic. If only I could channel a bit of Amazing Amy and her meticulousness. That would be very useful. Amy had this office at home in the Dunne household and every drawer had lined up matching pencils and people probably think I’m like that. I know I can project something that seems very calm and ordered, but they assume that’s like me. So far from the truth. It will be interesting. It will be an interesting ride. I’ll be a new mom. After playing the most unmaternal figure of the year. I just want people to go see the film at this point! I just want people to go out there. And at the moment, there’s such an attitude of "Have you seen it?" and I want people to go see it. I want people to go on the ride with it. Like you did, without knowing what was coming. That’s what you want. The really exciting thing is to be part of David Fincher’s life’s work.

I went to see him, we were in London, and he did a talk at BAFTA as a retrospective. I thought people will be discussing this film because it’s his. The lifespan of this film is going to be way beyond this release because it’s his work. And that’s pretty exciting because it’s worth talking about. The story is so good. And all of us–all the actors–were saying at the premiere that we might never have this again. This moment where there is this tide of anticipation, and also appreciation, it seems. I don’t read the reviews, but I’m aware that we seem to be getting lot of good will. I can it see on the faces of the executives at Fox. There’s something in the air. I’m not totally immune to picking something out. I have a lot of friends in the UK who are not in the industry and I’m getting texts from them saying, "You seem to have done something good. What’s going on?" So, it’s touching people who are not in the industry. And I realize these things don’t come around often so I’m certainly enjoying that, just being part of that. Indiewire has partnered with Movies On Demand for Indiewire’s Awards Season Spotlight .

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Join the Nation's Conversation To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs Five secrets of Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike Bryan Alexander , USA TODAY 4:42 p.m. ET Feb. 15, 2015 Rosamund Pike attends the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards at the Royal Opera House on Feb. 8, 2015, in London. (Photo: Samir Hussein, WireImage) It has been an amazing ride for Gone Girl actress Rosamund Pike, who, as Amy Dunne, puts the freak on her screen husband Ben Affleck and bloodily dispatches Neil Patrick Harris. Her Oscar-nominated performance garnered major kudos upon the movie's release in October and she gave birth to her second child in December. "To have this new life and this complete career turning point at the same time — it's a pretty heady cocktail," says Pike, 36. "But the two are so separate." The actress gives USA TODAY's Bryan Alexander five insights into her world. Five things to know about J.K. Simmons 1. Her partner likes that Amy Dunne lives within her. Some might be put off by Pike's dead-on sociopath performance.

Not her true-life partner, Robie Uniacke. "He says it's part of the appeal," says Pike. She found a gateway into her character via online forums such as sociopathworld.com, which discusses, for example, how sociopaths study and feign emotion to appear like regular people. "It's people owning it in private, anonymously," says Pike. "There's a feeling there that one is not unlucky to be a sociopath. I think they feel more charismatic, more empowered. Life is good, without getting hung on emotional issues." CLOSE Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike bring the best-selling book 'Gone Girl' to the big screen. VPC 2. She has natural-born pipes, but she hasn't shown them off on film. London-born Pike is the only child of opera singers Caroline and Julian Pike. She, too, has vocal chops, but hasn't had screen occasion to share them. Into the Woods director Rob Marshall recently asked informally if she could sing on screen. "I felt very inclined to say yes. But I have yet to sing in a professional capacity," says Pike. "Never say never." In the meantime, she's happy to sing Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan in her car.

Oscar hopefuls chill and dish at nominees luncheon 3. She wants her baby to start an awards blog. Pike's 11-week-old son, Atom (big brother Solo is 2), has lived a charmed existence since birth. It's been such a whirlwind that Pike wants to start an awards blog from the infant's point of view. "He has Edward Norton reciting Where the Wild Things Are in the lift. Or he meets David Beckham backstage at the Royal Opera House," says Pike. "You know, it's funny this life he's living. And he's completely oblivious to it. It's wonderful." (Photo: Merrick Morton, 20th Century Fox, via AP) 4. She's still blown away by her Bond girl appearance. Pike was thrust into the limelight as Bond girl Miranda Frost in 2002's Die Another Day, alongside Pierce Brosnan's 007. The climactic fight with Halle Berry aboard a crashing plane was surreal. "The whole set was rocking. You could see heat from the flames," says Pike. "In this insane environment, we were having to perform these very technical moves.

I have never been part of anything like that since." The tussle ended with Berry thrusting a knife through a book into Pike's chest, saying, "Read this, (expletive)." Pike thinks the final expletive was ad-libbed. "It was the relish with which she said it," says Pike. "I remember thinking, does she hate me?" Oscar watch: Best Actress nominees like you've never seen before 5. Her fashion choices include a pet snake called Oswald. Pike makes an impression every time she goes on the red carpet. She loves the fashion world, but does not enjoy the dress-up-for-the-cameras part. "I am not a clothes horse by profession," says Pike. "I will welcome the day with open arms when I can just turn up in jeans and a T-shirt and not give a (flip). That day hasn't come yet." She has been known to take her corn snake Oswald to dinner and wear him as a bracelet. "People will say, 'I like your bracelet' and I say, 'Thanks, that's Oswald.' " 37 CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN COMMENTEMAILMORE Read or Share this story: NEVER MISS OUT Life Be a pop culture maven.

Get the news, reviews and the juiciest celebrity stories that keep you in the know, Monday-Friday. Inside the closets of the Oscars’ Best Actress nominees | New York Post Inside the closets of the Oscars’ Best Actress nominees Modal Trigger Academy Award nominees Felicity Jones, Marion Cotillard and Rosamund Pike Invision/AP; Getty Images; Invision/AP When it comes to awards-season campaigning, this year’s Best Actress Oscar nominees play fashionable roles on the red carpet. The Oscars and fashion go hand in hand, but the bar has been raised by this year’s coterie of well-heeled Best Actress hopefuls. In terms of style, all of the nominees brought their A-game to the status-defining awards circuit. In honor of Sunday night’s ceremony, here’s the fashion 411 on the five leading ladies who’ve inspired us as much on the red carpet as they have on-screen. The English Rose Jones’ Christian Dior Couture dress offered blooms with a view at the BAFTA Awards. For the Critics’ Choice Awards, the demure actress chose Dolce & Gabbana’s delicate folds. Jones gave us a blush of excitement in Balenciaga at the SAG Awards.

Valentino’s gown was the silver lining of the Producers Guild Awards.Invision/AP (2); WireImage; Startraksphoto.com Felicity Jones, a contender for her role as Jane Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” is the primand-proper maverick. Sure, she’s unequivocally ladylike (think long sleeves, graceful shapes and conservative hemlines), but the most refreshing aspect of her style is that it’s never quite the same. One minute, the 31-year-old Brit is decked out in floral-print Erdem; the next, she’s in all-black Prada. On the adornment front, Jones complements her demure aesthetic with delicate diamonds, pearls and cameo studs. It’s understated jewelry that balances out her most scene-stealing looks, like the Christian Dior Couture high-neck gown she donned at the Golden Globes.

The American Beauty A fuchsia bustier and dramatic train took this Lanvin dress to the next level at the Critics’ Choice Awards; For the Golden Globes, Witherspoon opted to shine in a classic Calvin Klein column; At the BAFTAs, the actress flaunted her curves in a richly hued Stella McCartney gown; Witherspoon won big at the SAG Awards in Giorgio Armani’s strikingly simple, one-shoulder design.Startraksphoto.com; Getty Images; Pacific Coast News; Invision/AP Reese Witherspoon may be nominated for a film called “Wild,” but her taste for simple sophistication on the red carpet is anything but. Feminine yet never fussy, the Southern girl sticks to classic silhouettes that suit her all-American persona. The jewelry is always sparse — a thin bracelet, maybe a pair of drops — and she never bothers with look-at-me necklaces. Still, the 38-year-old mother of three is no prude. Witherspoon is big on form-fitting dresses, and has been known to bare cleavage. She’ll also bring the drama by way of bold color, as seen in the Stella McCartney number she wore to the BAFTA Awards.

The Dark Horse The actress showed her sweet side in ethereal Valentino Couture at the Critics’ Choice Awards; Pike gets right to the point in this chic Roland Mouret column; At the Golden Globes, it was angel white Vera Wang with racy cutouts — a look both naughty and nice; Pike soared outside the box at the SAG Awards in this Christian Dior Couture high-low dress.Invision/AP (2); Getty Images; Invision/AP Although Rosamund Pike, 36, has been a style standout for some time, the actress didn’t garner much fanfare until her gamechanging turn in “Gone Girl.” Like the two-faced character she plays in the film, there’s a distinct duality to her look. Pike plays it sweet, but effuses sexy, and is partial to all-black and all-white threads. The former Bond girl isn’t afraid of atypical silhouettes or progressive details, such as cutouts, slits and sheer fabrics. But Pike’s natural poise softens any edginess, and the result is modishly modern, neither safe nor too aggressive. Case in point: the unique Vera Wang cutout dress she wore to the Golden Globes just a few weeks after giving birth.

The French Twist The actress went the white way in Christian Dior Couture at the Critics’ Choice Awards; At the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Cotillard rocked a Dior LBD elevated with a trompe l’oeil neckline.Getty Images (2) It’s essentially a fact that French women have great style, but “Two Days, One Night” star Marion Cotillard takes the gâteau. Her M.O. is pure Parisian chic: tastefully edgy, effortlessly elegant, je ne sais quoi! Think traditional ladylike dressing spun completely fresh (sheath dresses in tech-y fabrics, LBDs with trompe l’oeil embroidery). Cotillard, 39, is also a face of Dior, and wears the storied brand with religious devotion. It’s just as well: The actress has the high-fashion sensibility to pull off straight-fromthe-runway looks, à la the voluminous Christian Dior Couture gown she wore to the Critics’ Choice Awards. The Risk Taker Designer Tom Ford made Moore his lady in red at the BAFTAs; Moore is more!

Sequins, feathers, ombré — it all worked in the star’s Givenchy Couture Golden Globes dress; The actress kept it chic at the Critics’ Choice Awards in Saint Laurent, sexed up with a lace panel bodice; The SAG Awards made for Emerald City when Moore stepped out in this Givenchy Couture gown.Inivsion/AP; Getty Images (2); Reuters It would be easy for Julianne Moore, nominated for her role as a linguistics professor in “Still Alice,” to wear humdrum dresses and get by on henetics. (A classic face, red hair and porcelain skin is a foolproof combination.) Instead, the A-lister often pushes the limits, and the risks pay off. Moore, 54, knows what works for her, but trusts talented designers to yank her out of her comfort zone. She lives in red and emerald — as any pale ginger should — as well as black and white, but you’ll never find her in a basic ball gown. Rather, the actress opts for elevated creations like the red velvet dress she worked at the BAFTAs, custom-made by her friend Tom Ford.

Share this: Oscars 2015 Exclusive: Rosamund Pike on Going for the Gold in GONE GIRL and Recreating a Cult Classic in THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO! | Nerdist Oscars 2015 Exclusive: Rosamund Pike on Going for the Gold in GONE GIRL and Recreating a Cult Classic in THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO! Posted by Joseph McCabe on February 21, 2015 Share: Films Rosamund Pike first seized our attention as ice-cool femme fatale Miranda Frost in the 2002 Pierce Brosnan James Bond thriller Die Another Day. But in the last twelve years she’s slowly amassed a filmography most any actor would die for, with supporting roles in critically acclaimed dramas like Pride & Prejudice and An Education and star turns in crowd-pleasers like Jack Reacher and The World’s End. And in 2014, the former Bond girl became a Gone Girl, in David Fincher’s Academy Award-nominated suspense film based on Gillian Flynn’s bestseller, for which she’s earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress.

Since she’d previously entered the world of Hitchcock-style thrillers in Terry Johnson’s 2003 play Hitchcock Blonde, I asked the stunning Pike — when I spoke with her at this years Santa Barbara International Film Festival (where she received the festival’s Virtuoso Award) — if it was especially satisfying to take the common perception of such thrillers’ heroines and turn it on its head. “I hadn’t thought of it like that,” she laughed. “But Hitchcock always said he wanted to take ladies and knock the ladylikeness out of them, and I think Fincher kind of wanted to do that a bit too. When I flew up to St. Louis to meet him for dinner, I think he was partly wanting to see how uptight I really was and whether I’d go the mile, or whether my vanity was sort of a barrier he couldn’t break down. And I think I reassured him on all those scores that I am first and foremost an incredibly hard worker, and that I can get in the ring and always have. But I’ve been craving this kind of opportunity.” “What I did like was the fact that Fincher was so clever with the marketing of this film.

That those who hadn’t read the book really did think I was just a dead wife. And the trajectory of my career to date meant that people would fully believe that I would sign on to be the dead wife. Whereas if it was a more illustrious, more famous actress, they probably would have been a bit more suspicious and thought, ‘Why does she want to the dead girl?’ ‘Rosamund Pike? Oh yeah, she’ll be the dead girl.’ So yes, to do that, to be the supporting actor in the idea of the story who then turns into a sort of protagonist, that was exciting.” Pike’s eclectic career choices continue with her next role — as Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward in Thunderbirds Are Go!, the television reboot of Gerry Anderson’s cult classic Thunderbirds. The actress explained she was a fan of the original TV show while growing up in the UK. “Oh yes, sure! Yeah, we all were. When it was rerun on television. I mean, I’ve always been a bit of a petrol-head and into machines and cars, spaceships and space travel. So those ships were so exciting to little children. I’m a mother of two boys now, so I sort of wanted to do something for them.

I think the new incarnation is going to be very exciting. So you won’t be let down I hope.” Pike will appear at this year’s Oscars ceremony when the Academy Awards presentation is telecast live on ABC on Sunday, February 22nd at 7 EST/4 PST. But no matter how she fares, she’s already won the most important honor — the 5th Annual Nerdist Movie Award for Best Actress! Tags Rosamund Pike - IMDb IMDb Actress | Soundtrack Born on January 27, 1979 in London, England, actress Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike is the only child of a classical violinist mother, Caroline (Friend), and an opera singer father, Julian Pike. Due to her parents' work, she spent her early childhood traveling around Europe. Pike attended Badminton School in Bristol, England and began acting at the ...

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(1999) ... Herself / Lady Harriet (uncredited) Hide 2015 Inside Edition (TV Series documentary) Herself 2015 The Insider (TV Series) Herself 2015 Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) Herself Personal Details Other Works: Played the character, "The Blonde", in "Hitchcock Blonde", a new play by Terry Johnson , in which she portrays an aspiring actress auditioning to be Janet Leigh 's body double in the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock 's film, Psycho (1960) - Royal Court Theatre/Lyric Theatre, London (2003). See more » Publicity Listings: 1 Interview | 5 Articles | 3 Pictorials | 6 Magazine Cover Photos | See more » Height: Gone Girl star Rosamund Pike gets Golden Globe best actress nomination - but will she get an Oscar? - Mirror Online Gone Girl star Rosamund Pike gets Golden Globe best actress nomination - but will she get an Oscar?

Londoner Rosamund is up against Hollywood A-listers Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon for the prestigious prize Share Rosamund Pike attends the World Premiere of 'The World's End' (Photo: Getty) Share Get celebs updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email The thriller movie Gone Girl made British actress Rosamund Pike a star – and now it has gained her a prestigious Golden Globe nomination. As Hollywood doubts whether she will be up for an Oscar next year for her role as glamorous Amy Dunne – the wife of Ben Affleck's character – she should be pretty pleased with herself today. Rosamund as Amy in Gone Girl She has been shortlisted for best actress in a drama movie, up against fellow Brit Felicity Jones for her role in The Theory of Everything. But Rosemund, who hails from Hammersmith, west London, is also competing with Hollywood A listers Jennifer Aniston for her appearance in Cake, and Reese Witherspoon for Wild. Julianne Moore is the fifth nominee for Still Alice.

Rival, Jennifer Aniston (Photo: Barcroft) Another rival, Reese Witherspoon (Photo: FilmMagic) In blockbuster movie, Gone Girl, which was based on the 2012 book by Gillian Flynn, Rosamund's character fakes her own murder, leaving on-screen husband Nick Dunne to take the blame. While Gone Girl, which grossed £50 million in its first two weeks, is Rosamund's opportunity to become a huge, global star, she had previous starred in several movies. After considering taking a job in bookshop, Waterstones, the 35-year-old won a role on James Bond film, as an M16 agent in Die Another Day. The Made In Dagenham cast She also starred in British movie, Made In Dagenham – about the equal pay that was won by female employees at the Ford factory in Essex. Despite her huge success, Rosamund has so far failed to find love and is currently single.

Like us on Facebook 'Gone Girl' powers up with formidable women taking lead - LA Times 'Gone Girl' powers up with formidable women taking lead Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times “To me, so much of the movie is about marriage, but it’s also about gender,” says writer Gillian Flynn, second from right, of “Gone Girl.” The cast features, from left, Kim Dickens as Det. Boney, Rosamund Pike as the missing Amy and Carrie Coon as Nick’s twin sister, Go. “To me, so much of the movie is about marriage, but it’s also about gender,” says writer Gillian Flynn, second from right, of “Gone Girl.” The cast features, from left, Kim Dickens as Det. Boney, Rosamund Pike as the missing Amy and Carrie Coon as Nick’s twin sister, Go.

(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) Rebecca Keegan Via @latimes: Complicated, demanding, intelligent women are at the center of new film 'Gone Girl' There was one line Ben Affleck didn't want to deliver in the new movie "Gone Girl," according to director David Fincher: "I'm so sick and tired of being picked apart by women." In the scene a woman is, in fact, filleting Affleck's character, weary husband Nick Dunne: A devilish Nancy Grace knockoff ( Missi Pyle ) is implying on her TV show that Nick has murdered his perfect, blond, missing wife, Amy ( Rosamund Pike ). "I think that was the only take we shot," Fincher said. "Ben thought it was a little on the nose. He felt, 'Am I just being teed up to be a misogynist?'" Affleck's apprehension about the line is understandable; as public figures like "Girls" creator Lena Dunham and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell can attest, the rules about how men and women relate to and talk about each other are changing, and upending generations of accepted behavior has a way of making people flinchy.

These women have very strong female brain chemistry, which adds value to the story. — Gillian Flynn, author "Gone Girl" is apt to inspire a slew of spirited date-night debates, as the surprisingly subversive popcorn movie, adapted by Gillian Flynn from her bestselling novel of the same name, slides down a razor's edge of sexual politics. Many critics have already reviewed the highly anticipated movie, which opens Friday, finding in it the seemingly contradictory qualities of chauvinism and feminism. "To me, so much of the movie is about marriage, but it's also about gender," Flynn said. "The different discriminations we take to each other. I think it plays a nice game with the audience, because obviously [Amy's potential killer] has to be the guy; it's always the guy. But that would be too easy, so it can't be the guy. ... We're playing with the tropes that we're all supposed to know." 'Gone Girl' trailer See more videos "Gone Girl" is stocked with complicated, demanding, intelligent women. Keen-eyed Det.

Rhonda Boney ( Kim Dickens ) is investigating Amy's disappearance; Nick's wise-alecky twin sister, Go (Carrie Coon), is both his staunchest supporter and toughest interrogator; Amy herself is a Gordian knot of a character whom Nick and the audience struggle together to disentangle. The feeling that these formidable women inspire may be best communicated by a T-shirt Go wears with a picture of a squirrel on it that says, "Protect Your Nuts." In an interview hours before the premiere at the New York Film Festival last week, Fincher, Flynn, Pike, Coon and Dickens gathered to discuss their movie's spiky portrait of the sexes. The conversation was sharp and funny and ventured beyond the movie into the sexist professional terrain actresses must navigate. "All these women could not have been men," Pike said of the film's many female characters. "And I think that is quite rare. These women have very strong female brain chemistry, which adds value to the story." The movie is the child of two creative parents, Fincher and Flynn, who share a knack for embedding potentially inflammatory ideas about gender in entertaining stories.

Fincher's "Fight Club" tackled the emasculating power of modern consumerism; his "The Social Network" depicted Facebook's sexist creation story as a website founded to rank women by their attractiveness; and his "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" centers on a feminist fantasy heroine who can hack, both digitally and with knives. The most radical idea in "Gone Girl" belongs to Flynn, a former Entertainment Weekly writer who has penned two other novels with dark female characters, "Sharp Objects" and "Dark Places." "Gone Girl" became a zeitgeist-capturing must-read in 2012, and sold more than 2 million copies. Flynn's $60-million idea — to borrow a figure from the film's budget — is the concept of the "cool girl." She's a beer-commercial ideal of a woman who likes football, poker and threesomes, whose figure and handbag are equally and impossibly compact. She has no baggage or saggage. "The cool girl piece is this idea of how we're supposed to conduct ourselves in the world, which nobody talks about," Coon said.

"Kim [Dickens] and I talk all the time about scripts where, once again you're playing the long-suffering wife, who's being mildly patient with her man-boy husband, and she's really bitchy. "The whole movie is set out to prove how he's not that bad a guy, basically undermining her entire purpose in the film. We read that script seven times a week, and I'm over it. The women in my life are not like that. The women in my life are deeply complicated beings with a lot of wants and desires and thwarted dreams. ... God bless Gillian for giving us some real … women to play." When Nick and Amy meet in a flashback sequence in "Gone Girl," Amy has internalized the cool-girl archetype and is scanning the room at a party to find her cool guy. To inhabit the character of Amy, Fincher suggested Pike look to Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr.'s wife, who died along with her husband in a plane crash in 1999. "I saw Carolyn Bessette in my head, the sort of ultimate trophy wife, but also looked at photos of her as a teenager and what she became," Fincher said.

"I needed somebody who could morph and legitimately lay claim to that idea of, 'This is how I want to be seen. This is my projection of myself.'" Fincher said he cast Pike, an English actress who has played a Bond Girl ("Die Another Day"), an Austen heroine ("Pride & Prejudice") and a 1960s swell ( "An Education" ) in part for her opacity. "There was something about her that was so Amy-like, and I didn't know what it was," Fincher said. "I asked her about her upbringing, and she told me she was an only child, and it was like, 'That's it. That's that thing.' You can't hide it. My daughter's the same way. She's an only child and she's socialized around adults. Those people are just different.They don't know what a noogie is." Go is Coon's first film role; nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as Honey in the 2013 revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and currently appearing in the HBO series "The Leftovers," the Ohio native recorded her audition on an iPad.

The Alabama-born Dickens is perhaps best known for playing a struggling chef in HBO's New Orleans-set "Treme." "I come from the South, that small town, matter-of-fact kind of mentality, and I think that's who Boney is," Dickens said. "There's no ego. She's there to do her job, and she's good at it." It is both Fincher's and Flynn's opinion that Coon's and Dickens' characters had to be female, or the story really would have been misogynist. "Nick gets vetted by the two sides, the woman who knows him better than himself, his twin sister, and the woman who's finding out about him and still has a hunch that something's hinky," Fincher said. "They have to be women. You need someone to say, 'Look, he's not the brightest bulb in the tree ...'" "... But he's my bulb,'" Flynn said, finishing Fincher's sentence. "Nick has all these whiffs of chauvinism about him, certainly with his wife. I knew he had to have a close woman in his life because she would vouch for him in a way with the audience. ...

The fact that someone as cool and sensible and likable as Go loves her brother so much and can also make fun of him ... makes it OK for you to like Nick. Nick doesn't give you a lot of reasons to like him." While mostly praising the movie's execution, film critics have been grappling with its gender dynamics. Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson called "Gone Girl" a "resonant success" but compared Amy to "a parody of the most persistent of MRAs' [Mens Rights Activists'] fears." New York magazine's David Edelstein called the film "gripping" but worried about the "male gaze," saying, "and this particular male — the director of 'Se7en' and 'The Social Network' — doesn't have much faith in appearances, particularly women's." Speaking of the male gaze, one of the more amusing discussions about sex in the film surrounds a fleeting frontal nude shot of Affleck, a glimpse so brief that many early viewers haven't noticed it. Kyle Buchanan of New York magazine's Vulture penned a step-by-step guide to spotting the shot. "There will come a time near the very end of the movie when one character suggests that Ben Affleck take a shower," Buchanan writes.

"This is your cue!" Amid the hubbub, 20th Century Fox is marketing "Gone Girl" as a date-night film — in one TV spot the studio excerpted a line from Rolling Stone's Peter Travers calling it "The date-night movie of the decade" but left out the rest of Travers' sentence: "for couples who dream of destroying one another." Fincher is aware of how his movie might provoke strong reactions. Told that a reporter was taking her husband to see "Gone Girl," the director said, archly, "Let us know how that goes." Follow me on Twitter: @ThatRebecca

Question: A former ‘Bond Girl’, which UK actress is nominated for her leading role in 'Gone Girl'?
Answer: Rosamund PIKE