'We went through five gallons of blood': Rosamund Pike reveals she filmed Gone Girl murder scene 36 times...as she poses in high fashion shoot for Vanity Fair
She’s braced for a busy awards season following a stellar performance in Gone Girl – but while the role has won her plaudits, Rosamund Pike can be forgiven for thinking her broader international appeal is well earned.
Reflecting on one of the film’s more pivotal sequences, in which her character cuts the throat of a would-be captor Desi Collings – played by Neil Patrick Harris – the 35-year-old mother-of-two admits it took 36 bloody takes before the gruesome scene was finally nailed.
‘I spent more time in front of the camera on that film than in my entire career to date, because he’s shooting five to six hours of footage a day, and over a hundred days shooting—that mounts up,' she tells the February issue of Vanity Fair.
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Dramatic: Rosamund Pike wowed in a dramatic tulle gown in the February issue of Vanity Fair, where she spoke about attempting to emulate the late Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy's aloofness for Gone Girl
The set had to be completely remade for every scene due to the amount of fake blood used, and director David Fincher admits 450 gallons of blood and 36 pairs of underpants were on hand following a lengthy rehearsal period.
‘I told them to rehearse it for three days,’ he said. ‘As we’re pumping five gallons of blood out of Desi’s throat.’
Rosamund stuns on the cover of the latest issue, on sale January 9, in a plunging white top, while the photoshoot inside the magazine shows the actress displaying her tiny waist in a dramatic designer gown.
Taking the plunge: Rosamund's dazzling cover was shot by Mario Testino and shows the starlet in a low-cut dress
With her hair teased into a bouffant style, Rosamund wears a dress with a shirt-style top and a huge ruffled skirt, which flows to her knees.
In the accompanying interview, she opens up about director David Fincher encouraging to base her character Amy Dunne on the late Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and trying to perfect the aloof quality of the wife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.
Fincher told Vanity Fair: 'I had these images of before and after—of Carolyn as an 18-year-old and as a 20-year-old, the notion of someone self-made. She crafted herself, she re-invented herself, and invented that persona. That's where I began.'
Rosamund added: '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.
Aloof: Director David Fincher revealed he wanted Rosamund to capture the aloofness of the late Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy for her character Amy Dunne
Captivating: Carolyn captured the heart of JFK Jr and captivated the world before they tragically died in a plane crash with her sister in 1999
'And I realised that David had basically given me a cipher to study. There are countless photographs of Bessette…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.'
Bessette-Kennedy, tragically died in a plane crash with her husband and sister in 1999.
The February issue of Vanity Fair is on sale this Friday, January 9.
Mesmerising: Rosamund's role as the enigmatic Amy alongside Ben Affleck has won her rave reviews
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