Rosamund Pike said her first audition for 2002’s Die Another Day required her to undress
The Gone Girl star refused, explaining at the time, “Well, no, I’ll be doing that if I get the part. I won’t be doing that now”
Pike made her big-screen debut as Bond girl and double agent Miranda Frost opposite Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond in the spy film
Rosamund Pike says her Die Another Day audition required the confidence to say “no.”
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK, the 46-year-old Golden Globe winner shared how when auditioning for the role of Bond girl and double agent Miranda Frost, she was asked to undress.
“In the Bond audition, I was asked to unzip and drop the dress I was wearing, to just stand there in underwear,” Pike told the magazine. “And I thought, ‘Well, no, I’ll be doing that if I get the part. I won’t be doing that now.’ I don’t know what possessed me.”
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Rosamund Pike in ‘Die Another Day’
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Pike ultimately landed the role that became her big-screen debut opposite Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond for the 2002 spy film. In the action blockbuster, Pike plays Harvard-educated, gold medal-winning fencer Frost, who initially appears to be a MI6 agent but later is revealed to be a double agent.
While recently appearing on David Tennant’s podcast David Tennant Does a Podcast with, Pike noted that amid all the sexy spy scenarios, there was also a very awkward moment that occurred while filming a love scene with Brosnan, 70.
The actress said while filming a steamy scene on a swan sculpture bed “covered in furs” with Brosnan, “I discovered things like nipple covers, and all the taping.”
“We have this clinch, and then we separate, and I look at this body tape and the nipple covers and they’re covered in hair. And I think, ‘Oh my God, I’m waxing Pierce’s chest,’ ” the Gone Girl star told Tennant.
“I was so mortified,” Pike continued. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, he’s so brave, and I’m pulling off his chest hair with every embrace.’ And of course, it took a couple of takes to realize it was not him. It was the fake fur of the rugs adorning the swan bed. I literally thought I was waxing the poor man’s chest.”
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Rosamund Pike and Pierce Brosnan in ‘Die Another Day’
Pike added though that while there was a sizable age gap between them during production — Brosnan was 49 and Pike was 23 when the film debuted — she described the Irish actor as “an absolute gent.”
The June issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK is on sale from May 15.
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