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15-05-2025
- Entertainment
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Rosamund Pike says she was asked to ‘unzip and drop' her dress during James Bond audition
Rosamund Pike has shared that she refused when asked to strip down to her underwear during her James Bond audition. The Gone Girl star was auditioning for the role of undercover MI6 agent Miranda Frost, alongside Pierce Brosnan as James Bond and Halle Berry as NSA agent Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson, in 2002's Die Another Day. She went on to play Frost in her first big screen debut. In a recent interview, Pike said she was asked to unzip her dress at the audition. 'In the Bond audition, I was asked to unzip and drop the dress I was wearing, to just stand there in underwear,' Pike told Harper's Bazaar UK. '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.' Pike has talked about her audition previously, telling Amazon's Audible Sessions in 2018 that she didn't know where she got the resolve to refuse. 'On the day, I don't know how I got the resolve and strength of mind but I just thought, 'Actually sod that, if they're gonna see me in my underwear, they better give me the job.' So I thought, 'There's no way I'm going to take off a dress in the audition for this tape to be sent around Los Angeles and to be judged on that.'' Pike, who was 21 at the time, added that she was asked to appear in an evening dress and she turned up in a silk gown once worn by her grandma. '[The costume designer] said, 'That's a very beautiful dress, but in Bond films we wear things a little more like this', and she held up three pieces of string,' Pike said. In a podcast interview in April, Pike recounted an incident on the set where she was left 'mortified' after a sex scene with Brosnan. She recounted a scene on a bed 'covered in furs' where she '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,'' she told David Tennant Does a Podcast With. '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 realise 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.' The Independent has reached out to representatives at MGM for comment.
Buzz Feed
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Rosamund Pike Refused To Strip To Underwear In Bond Audition
Rosamund Pike was just 23 years old when she broke into the mainstream after landing the role of Bond girl Miranda Frost in the 2002 movie Die Another Day. And the star, now 46, revealed in a new interview that despite being an unknown actor at the time, she was cast in the iconic role after refusing to strip off during her audition. Reflecting on her early career in a profile for Harper's Bazaar, Rosamund said that casting agents asked her to 'unzip and drop' her dress so that she would be standing in front of them in just her underwear. Even though she was only 21 years old at the time of the audition — and a total newcomer — she did not bow to the pressure, and told the agents that she'd only be stripping to her underwear for them if she got the role. 'In the Bond audition, I was asked to unzip and drop the dress I was wearing, to just stand there in underwear,' Rosamund told the publication. '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 added of her refusal, but this no-nonsense attitude clearly convinced the powers that be that Rosamund was right for the role. Thankfully, Rosamund's experience on the Die Another Day set was much more above board than the audition requests, with the star saying in 2018 that she felt completely comfortable throughout filming thanks to the movie's producer, Barbara Broccoli. Speaking on Audible Sessions, the star shared: 'I look back over my experience on the Bond film and think, my goodness [the producer] Barbara Broccoli was way ahead of all this #MeToo movement. There wasn't an ounce of feeling uncomfortable while I was on that set." And Rosamund actually ended up making a habit out of putting her foot down when it comes to gratuitous nudity, with the star getting a nude scene scrapped from a play shortly after her Bond role. Rosamund appeared in Hitchcock Blonde in London in 2003, and there was a moment in the script where she had to walk across the stage completely naked. 'There was a moment of: 'Fuck, they've given me this absolute stellar part, but it involves nudity.' I was taken for a very considerate, you might say, lunch by the director to say, 'Are you aware of this?'' she shared. 'They knew exactly what was on the table, which was a brilliant role in a fantastic new play.' However, Rosamund ended up explaining to the director that she didn't think the nudity was necessary — and they ultimately agreed to her changes. 'After killing her husband, my character brings his body in and she's meant to be naked. I requested a dressing gown, which I got,' she said, before quipping: 'I've usually spent my career being more clothed than was initially on the page.' What do you make of Rosamund's Bond audition? Let me know in the comments below!
