BAZ BAMIGBOYE: 'It's a cool club to belong to': Rosamund Pike on how she'll always wear her Bond girl badge with pride
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Rosamund Pike revealed that being a Bond girl is a ‘cool club’ to be part of — though that wasn’t always the case.
As Skyfall, the latest 007 movie, prepares to open, the actress — who played Miranda Frost opposite Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day — told me she might once have been somewhat ambivalent about being seen as just a pretty appendage.
Even an appendage associated with one of the most successful film franchises in cinema history.
Rosamund Pike has shed the moniker of 'Bond girl' and joined a star-studded cast for the Long Way Down film
Die Another Day was her first film, and the sudden, full glare of international publicity was startling to her.
Also, she had no comprehension then that she would be associated with Bond history for ever.
Ten years on, she sees it differently. ‘Now I’ve got perspective,’ she said. ‘Now it just seems like a very cool punctuation mark on the CV. It’s a cool club to be a part of.’
Rosamund has been busy adding to that CV of late. She stars with Tom Cruise in the potent new action-thriller Jack Reacher — based on the 2005 novel One Shot by Lee Child — which opens on Boxing Day.
And she recently finished a small role with her old Bond, Brosnan, in the film Long Way Down.
Big break: Rosamund shot to fame in Die Another Day
‘It was nice to be ten years on, and feel that familiarity and camaraderie. We started reminiscing about Bond, and you realise that it’s such a magic thing to do.’
She said it would be ‘reductive’ if she was always referred to as a ‘Bond girl’. ‘Not that it’s an insult — I’m proud as hell of it,’ she added quickly. ‘ I was delighted to be a Bond girl, but if that’s your moniker for ever, it’s a bit annoying.’
By way of example, she told me about a guy who recently stopped her in the street and asked: ‘Are you the Bond girl?’
‘I said: “I’m an actress — is that what you mean?”’
Rosamund said she’s eager to see the new movie, which is directed brilliantly by Sam Mendes and features superb performances from Judi Dench, Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes and Albert Finney.
In fact, I was thinking about what a fabulous pedigree Skyfall has. Mendes won an Oscar in 2000 for directing the best film winner American Beauty. Dame Judi and Bardem both have acting statuettes (for, respectively, Shakespeare In Love and No Country For Old Men).
Cinematographer Roger Deakins has been nominated nine times. And Fiennes and Finney have both been nominated twice.
I haven’t gone through all the credits, so there may be more!
The point is, Skyfall is a Bond film worthy of awards season consideration — and certainly critical acclaim.
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