Girl gone Star Rosamund Pike says her 2005 action role is killing zombies on Mars in the video game adaptation. death, Where she starred opposite Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, it could have ended her acting career.
“So when I was making pride and prejudice “I was having a good time in my cornfields in my hood, and I got a call to be in an action franchise,” Pike said. How to fail with Elizabeth Day Podcast. It wasn’t Minecraft movie or Lara Croft: Tomb RaiderObviously, especially after its first star, Ray Winstone, dropped out.
“Suddenly I was in this movie with the Rock, and I realized how unqualified I was to be an action star,” Pike recounted of meeting Johnson, who was as nice as he was, on their first day on set. “There were people supporting him, and there were weights on set. Every time a gun was taken out, it was a sacred relic to the man.” death Fans. “There was a whole routine before filming… I was out of my comfort zone, out of my league, out of my depth, and the film was an absolute bomb,” she added.
Even Baek was afraid death She will bring her Hollywood career after the role of the precious Bond girl in 2002 Die another day The screaming came to a halt. “I mean, I probably could have ended my career,” she insisted. “That was probably one of the worst movies ever made. I mean it was a disaster, I think. And like I said, I don’t read reviews, but you get the feeling that you’re lucky to have survived that movie.”
death This did not doom either Pike or Rock’s careers, as both went on to have impressive careers. But the action movie role taught her to research future roles before agreeing to do them. “I didn’t know enough about video games. I wasn’t the right kind of girl to be in it. I didn’t want to be a sex symbol. So, I guess it was okay for me to fail at being an action star. In those days that was a bombshell sex symbol. I wasn’t that person,” Pike said.
Of course, Pike wasn’t receptive to his lack of the physique of an action star at the time. “As the girl in a movie like this, if the movie is a bomb, you think, damn, it’s because I wasn’t sexy enough. That’s not the complete failure of the movie. But if a lot of guys say the movie is trashy, then obviously your role in it is to play your character, but also look kind of hot. I don’t think I understood that, or took that seriously, or trained for the athletic body that a better action star would have done,” Pike told the podcast.
