Cry Another Day

When actor Rosamund Pike started her acting career, she earned her breakthrough role in the much-maligned Die Another Day. But being a Bond girl isn't all it's cracked up to be, revealed the 43-year-old.

"I was the most naïve candidate at the time that I did Die Another Day", she said.

 

"I had no agenda and 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.

 

"I was really confused. I thought: 'People have given me this part as a Bond Girl. If I turn up as the real me, everyone will be crushingly disappointed because I don't look anything like her'. "I focused on the need to look like her and live up to this image foisted on me. 

 

"I think, post-Bond, people forgot that I'm very girly. People compartmentalize you much more than I like to think they do. Having done the Bond film and been really overexposed, I was known by everybody but respected by none. 

"I thought I wouldn't do any interviews — bow out of the whole system — until I had something to talk about that I was actually proud of. Now I feel I've got my wits about me.

 

"Unfortunately, it's not what you should say if you want a big career. But I remember being on the bus going over a bridge in London, down towards Clapham. And thinking after all the flying around, first-class on the kind of Bond magic carpet, I was on this bus and thought, 'No, this is who I am'. And it was such a kind of key feeling.

"I just had this incredible experience with Bond. I mean, it's like you literally jump on a magic carpet, and you're all over the world. And it's hotels and the premieres. And the sort of massive thing that is Bond. It's exhilarating. But I knew it wasn't really me".

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