Ep 167. Rosamund Pike
Early on, the stage was set for Rosamund Pike to pursue a career in the performing arts. Born to two opera singers, Rosamund had a front row seat to familial emoting. She tried her hand at both music and acting, but a bout of stage fright while playing the cello forced Rosamund to recognize that she really didn\u2019t want to play\xa0herself\xa0on stage\u2014she was much more interested in playing other people, where her imagination was free to roam and explore. \u201cActing was like diving into a place where you actually felt alive, where things felt real.\u201d\n\nSoon after finishing college, Rosamund got her first break as a Bond girl opposite Pierce Brosnan in 2002\u2019s\xa0Die Another Day. But playing Miranda Frost\u2014the \u201cepitome of icy English blondness\u201d\u2014in your breakout role has its drawbacks. For years, Rosamund was cast in similarly cold and confident roles, and she longed for the opportunity to do more. Enter director David Fincher, who saw something unique in Rosamund. He offered her the role of Amy Dunne in\xa0Gone Girl, and her breathtaking performance earned her a slew of awards and new opportunities to evolve as an artist in films like\xa0A United Kingdom,\xa0Hostiles, and now her latest film playing slain journalist Marie Colvin in\xa0A Private War. Her deep dive into the Marie\u2019s life led to an intensity that was as fulfilling as it was terrifying. "You are trying to trick your brain into getting to a place where you are out of control, and that is a scary place.\u201d But as Rosamund explains, she\u2019s waited her entire life for the opportunity to disappear into somebody else, and in\xa0A Private War, she does just that.\n\nRosamund joins Off Camera to talk about her fascination with human emotion, the elaborate plan she concocted to meet with David Fincher for Gone Girl, and her intimate knowledge of bone saws.