Gone Girl Leading lady Rosamund Pike had not seen James Bond films before being cast
She returns to cinemas with David Fincher's Gone Girl in October, and leading lady Rosamund Pike has revealed that her role in the James Bond movies helped her to learn about herself.
During a photo shoot with W Magazine, the former Bond Girl who featured alongside Pierce Brosnan in 2002's Die Another Day explained "The Bond film was like an ejector seat from normality into a crazy circus world, it was trial by fire. I was 21, and I was made to look far more sophisticated than I felt.
Instantly, I had to come to terms with myself as a woman and also as an object. I was looking at myself from the outside for the first time. That awareness, for any girl, is both horrible and fascinating."
Pike also revealed that she hadn't seen a James Bond film prior to being cast in the role and revealed "Before I was cast as a Bond girl, I had never actually seen a James Bond movie, the Bond audition was strange - I'd just come back from China, doing the kind of hippie-backpacking thing that people do when they leave school.
All the girls in this beautiful old town house waiting to see the casting director were sleek and dressed in what seemed to me like leather. I was wearing something very thick and woolly. I was convinced I was all wrong."
Pike will be seen alongside Ben Affleck, Missi Pyle, Tyler Perry, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Fugit and Boyd Holbrook in the aforementioned adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel Gone Girl when it opens on October 3.
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