Rosamund Pike has spoken about her experience of auditioning to be a Bond girl - saying she refused to strip during the audition.
The actress, 46, said she didn’t have issues with filming steamier scenes for Die Another Day, but she said she took a stand during the audition.
But it didn’t seem to affect her chances - as she was still cast as double agent Miranda Frost in the 2002 film alongside Pierce Brosnan.
“In the Bond audition, I was asked to unzip and drop the dress I was wearing, to just stand there in underwear,” she told Harper's Bazaar UK 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.”
She recently recalled an amusing moment while filming a steamier scene with Brosnan on David Tennant Does A Podcast With.
“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,” she said.
“And I think, ‘Oh my God, I’m waxing Pierce’s chest.'”
“I was so mortified. 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.”
She also recently questioned whether the world is entering an “age of prudery” with less sex due to the impact of “wellness” culture, in comments made during a Criterion Closet interview.
In the interview, the star sifts through the iconic film closet owned by The Criterion Collection and selects her top picks.
Pike’s first pick is I Am Curious, the 1967 Swedish erotic drama written and directed by Vilgot Sjöman that follows the story of a searching and rebellious young woman’s bold exploration of her sexual identity.
“My first pick is I Am Curious because I am curious,” Pike says. “And I’m also interested in the depiction of sex and sexuality on screen. I think it’s very interesting, the debate, where it’s taking us these days.”
She goes on to ask: “Are we entering an age of prudery? I’m interested in the way that wellness is taking over our lives and yet sex seems to be taking a backseat.”
