Happy Birthday: Rosamund Pike

Rosamund Pike

Born: January 27, 1979 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK

[on David Fincher’s suggestion that she use Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy as a model for Amy Dunne in Gone Girl (2014)] I ordered old copies of the Vanity Fair in which she appeared on the cover. I scoured the internet for any footage of her or, even better, any interviews or recordings which captured her voice. And I realized that David had basically given me a cipher to study. There are countless photographs of Bessette: gorgeous portraits in Vanity Fair; vibrant, intimate photographs taken of Bessette and Kennedy engrossed in each other at parties; shots of her walking the New York streets, wrapping herself in cashmere as protection against the cold and probably photographers, head down, her long blond hair shielding her face from full view. There are even a fair few shots of her and Kennedy clearly in the midst of blistering rows in Central Park, in the street, but I could find nothing of her in her own words. And I thought, Well, maybe that’s fine. Amy, as she wants to be seen, should be created from outside in. I tried to find a way to own that body language, the self-protective seductiveness, head down, hair falling….I couldn’t really read her face, and so I tried to use that quality. You meet Amy, she smiles, but her eyes are always scanning you, assessing, seeing if you can play the game, surprised and pleased when you score a point, feeling that you might after all be worthwhile. It is not a relaxing way to live.

MADE IN DAGENHAM 2010 dir. Nigel Cole Starring: Sally Hawkins Jaime Winstone

Pride & Prejudice 2005 dir. Joe Wright Starring Keira Knightley Judi Dench

Die Another Day 2002 dir. Lee Tamahori Starring Pierce Brosnan Halle Berry

BARNEY’S VERSION 2011 dir. Richard J. Lewis Starring: Paul Giamatti Rosamund Pike

Surrogates dir. Jonathan Mostow Starring Bruce Willis

THE BIG YEAR dir. David Frankel Stars: Owen Wilson Jack Black

An Education 2009 dir. Lone Scherfig stars Carey Mulligan Peter Sarsgaard

WRATH OF THE TITANS dir. Jonathan Liebesman Stars: Sam Worthington Liam Neeson

JACK REACHER 2012 dir. Christopher McQuarrie Stars: Tom Cruise Rosamund Pike

THE WORLD’S END 2013 dir. Edgar Wright Stars: Simon Pegg Nick Frost

THE DEVIL YOU KNOW 2013 dir. Debra Granik Stars: Jennifer Lawrence John Hawkes

A LONG WAY DOWN 2014 dir. Pascal Chaumeil Stars: Pierce Brosnan Toni Collette

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