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New York Post
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Rosamund Pike claims she was asked to strip down to her underwear during uncomfortable James Bond audition
Rosamund Pike stood on business when she auditioned for the James Bond franchise. In a new interview with Harper's Bazaar UK, the 46-year-old actress recalled her uncomfortable tryout for the 2002 film 'Die Another Day.' 'In the Bond audition, I was asked to unzip and drop the dress I was wearing, to just stand there in underwear,' Pike shared. 'And I thought, 'Well, no, I'll be doing that if I get the part. I won't be doing that now.'' 8 Rosamund Pike starred in the 2002 James Bond film. mspike/Instagram 8 Rosamund Pike, Pierce Brosnan in 'Die Another Day.' ©MGM/Courtesy Everett Collection Pike confirmed that she refused to strip in the audition. 'I don't know what possessed me,' she said. 8 Rosamund Pike and Pierce Brosnan in 'Die Another Day.' ©MGM/Courtesy Everett Collection Despite that, Pike landed the role as Miranda Frost in the action flick starring Pierce Brosnan. Pike's character is a Harvard graduate and Olympic fencer who appears to be a member of MI6, when in actuality she's a double agent. She's killed by another Bond girl, Halle Berry's Jinx Johnson. 8 Rosamund Pike on the cover of Harper's Bazaar June 2025 issue. Harpers Bazaar Last month, Pike appeared on 'David Tennant Does a Podcast With …' and opened up about a moment during a love scene between herself and Brosnan, 71, in 'Die Another Day' that she said left her 'mortified.' 'I think, 'Oh my God, I'm waxing Pierce's chest,'' she recalled. 'I was so mortified. I thought, 'Oh my God, he's so brave, and I'm pulling off his chest hair with every embrace.'' 8 Rosamund Pike and Pierce Brosnan at the 'Die Another Day' premiere in London in Nov. 2002. Getty Images 8 Rosamund Pike as Miranda Frost in 'Die Another Day.' REUTERS But Pike said that after 'a couple of takes' she realized she wasn't accidentally waxing her co-star's chest, but rather 'the fake fur of the rugs' on the bed they were filming on. Pike starred in the 20th James Bond movie. The franchise, which was officially taken over by Amazon MGM Studios in February, is currently on the hunt for a new actor to take on the Bond mantle. 8 Rosamund Pike in an Instagram photo. mspike/Instagram At the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, Berry, 58, told Variety that doesn't know if the next 007 'should be a woman.' When asked if she'd do a spinoff of Jinx, she said, 'There was a time that that could have happened. Probably should have happened. I would have loved for that to happen.' 8 Rosamund Pike, Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry pose for photographers at the press launch of 'Die Another Day' in 2002. Getty Images Helen Mirren, who has never starred in a James Bond movie, blasted the franchise for 'profound sexism' in an interview with the Standard in March. 'The whole series of James Bond, it was not my thing,' said the British actress, 79. 'It really wasn't. I never liked James Bond. I never liked the way women were in James Bond.' But like Berry, Mirren said she's opposed to a female 007.
News18
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
Jameela Jamil 'Knocked Over' Al Pacino Trying To Smuggle Food From Hollywood Party
Jameela Jamil accidentally knocked over Al Pacino while smuggling wagyu steaks from a party. She fled and texted Judd Apatow. Jameela Jamil 'knocked over" Al Pacino as she was smuggling food out of a Hollywood party. 'The Good Place' star has revealed she accidentally floored the veteran actor during a bash thrown by the head of the United Talent Agency – admitting she was attempting to leave the party with 10 wagyu steaks hidden under her skirt when she bumped into Pacino and she fled without helping him up. She told the Guardian newspaper: 'I knocked over Al Pacino at a party. It was at the head of UTA's house back in maybe 2015. I'd stolen a bunch of food – they had really good wagyu steaks, so I took 10 wrapped in a cloth napkin, they were kind of bleeding. I bundled them in between my legs, underneath my miniskirt, and was shuffling as fast as I could out of the party when I knocked over Al Pacino. Jameela then sent a text message to director Judd Apatow in a bid to cover her tracks. She added: '[I] texted Judd Apatow: 'Sorry, I had to leave. I hope they catch that guy that knocked over Al Pacino'." It comes after Jameela admitted had just $17 left in her bank account when she was cast in 'The Good Place'. The 39-year-old star – who played Tahani Al-Jamil in Mike Schur's beloved sitcom about the afterlife – revealed she 'ran out of money" after leaving the BBC Radio 1 Cart Show in 2016, and decided she 'wanted to be a writer and a DJ". She joined her then-musician-partner on tour, but soon found herself struggling. Appearing on 'David Tennant Does a Podcast With…', she said: 'I ran out of money and so I said, 'Please can I have a job, any job, I will do anything.' I was so desperate for money at that point. I had $17 left in my bank account. I was real keen. But instead I was handed a bunch of auditions." Among those opportunities was a Las Vegas magic show, and what became her role in 'The Good Place'. However, she had 'never acted before", and was still focused on being a writer, with one of her pitches persuading executives to ask her to audition for the show. She added: 'They were the ones who said, 'We want you to go to this audition for Mike Schur. You'll have more power as a writer if you have a name for yourself, or you can just meet him and maybe he'll put you in the writer's room'… So I went to the audition, just very much so not thinking anything was going to come of it. I got both the magic show and Mike Schur and I had to make a choice. You weren't allowed to do both." First Published: April 21, 2025, 19:01 IST
