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New York Post
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘Gone Girl' star Rosamund Pike reveals she was punched in the face during ‘horrible' mugging incident
Rosamund Pike experienced a traumatic robbery nearly ten years ago. The 'Gone Girl' star, 46, recently appeared on U.K.'s 'Magic Radio' and revealed that she was mugged in London in 2006. 'I was on the phone to my mother – on a mobile phone walking along a road – and I was mugged,' Pike recalled. 'The phone was snatched so all she heard was me scream and a thud and the phone went dead.' 5 Rosamund Pike on 'Magic Radio.' Magic Radio/YouTube 5 Rosamund Pike in 'Gone Girl.' 20th Century Fox Licensing/Merchandising / Everett Collection 'And then I just walked to the pub and called her there when I met my friends,' Pike said of her mother. 'For her, it was probably a pretty horrible 15 minutes.' The 'Wheel of Time' actress claimed that the mugger was 'some kid on a bicycle' who physically assaulted her as she stole her phone. '[They] punched me down the side of my cheek and snatched my phone out of my hand,' Pike said, adding that she was 'angry' in the moment. 5 Rosamund Pike at the UK screening of 'Hallow Road' in London on April 28. Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/WireImage Pike appeared on 'Magic Radio' with Matthew Rhys to promote their new thriller film 'Hallow Road,' in which they play parents who get a distressed phone call from their college-age daughter and have to help her. Director Babak Anvari told Collider in an interview last week that the film explores a parents' 'worst nightmare.' 5 Rosamund Pike seen at CBS Studio in New York City on March 26. GC Images Rhys, 50, also spoke to the outlet about working with Pike on the intense project. 'It was probably the improvisational work we did at the beginning. We did some improvisational rehearsals. It wasn't really a shock; I don't think you said 'action,' but you said you can kind of begin whenever you want, and it's like a switch with Rosamund, the intensity, the 'now it's game time' switch,' he explained. 'It's kind of startling. It's so immediate and so deep. I went, 'Oh, it's time to step up.' There's no easing our way into this, and I think that's how she attacks every day and every scene,' said Rhys. 5 Rosamund Pike attends the 'My Master Builder' West End opening night in London on April 29. WireImage Last year, Pike made headlines when she attended the 2024 Golden Globe Awards in massive headpiece to hide injuries she sustained in a skiing accident. 'I had an accident over Christmas — I had a skiing accident and I had to think, you know, not what you want when you're coming to the Golden Globes on the seventh of January,' the 'Saltburn' actress told Variety on the red carpet. 'So on the 26th of December, my face was entirely smashed up,' she continued. 'And I thought I need to protect I need to do something.'
Time Out
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Alicia Vikander will make her theatre debut in London opposite Andrew Lincoln in ‘The Lady from the Sea'
The Bridge Theatre has had a big juicy hole in its programming for some months now, smack bang between the imminent return of Nicholas Hytner's ecstatic immersive A Midsummer Night's Dream and Jordan Fein's revival of Sondheim's immortal Into the Woods. We'd hoped a starry play with an interesting director might plug the gap, and lo! It has come to pass. In a busy year for Ibsen adaptations – following the Lyric Hammersmith's Ghosts, the Ewan McGregor-starring My Master Builder and a Lily Allen-led spin on Hedda Gabler over in Bath – auteur Aussie director Simon Stone will put his own spin on The Lady from the Sea. And he's got some heavyweight leads in the shape of Andrew Lincoln and – in her stage debut – Academy Award-winning Swedish actor Alicia Vikander. Ibsen's 1889 drama concerns Ellida, a woman who has settled for a comfortable life that is shaken to the core when an old lover re-emerges. As with all Simon Stone's works – most famously his Billie Piper-starring West End hit Yerma – the play is a modern interpretation that he himself has adapted and directed, so it's hard to say precisely what details of the original will be retained, but he should do something pretty enthralling with it. Vikander is a prolific screen actor best known for playing Lara Croft in the 2018 version of Tomb Raider and for her Oscar-winning supporting turn in 2015's The Danish Girl. Lincoln was a regular on UK stages before finding major US success with The Walking Dead. Technically his last London stage role was playing Scrooge at the Old Vic's A Christmas Carol in 2020, though the show was performed in front of webcams in an empty theatre due to the pandemic. Vikander will play Ellida, and Lincoln her husband Edvard (whether the family name remains Wangel is TBC). There's a third major role of Ellida's dangerous ex-lover – in Ibsen simply called The Stranger – that is still to be cast, but all will presumably be revealed soon-ish. The show goes on general sale May 13, and you'll be able to .
Express Tribune
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
McGregor returns to the West End stage
The new Ibsen-inspired play My Master Builder digs into modern-day relationship politics, actor Ewan McGregor said at the show's official opening night on Tuesday. Back on stage in the West End for the first time in 17 years, Emmy award winner McGregor, known for on-screen roles such as Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, said he loves doing theatre. "The audience teach you what works, what doesn't work," he said, adding that the bond actors have on stage "you can't really find in the film world". Set in the present day in The Hamptons in New York State, My Master Builder explores what happens when powerful publisher Elena Solness (Kate Fleetwood) throws her architect husband Henry Solness (McGregor) a dinner party – attended by a former student and love interest of his, played by Elizabeth Debicki. "It really is an interesting look at sexual politics, relationship politics of today versus the way that The Master Builder was written ... in the late 1800s," McGregor said. Inspired by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's 1892 play The Master Builder, My Master Builder came from writer Lila Raicek's own experience of being treated like a pawn in a powerful couple's marriage. "I realised that this framework of this twisted love triangle was actually very much inspired by Ibsen. So Ibsen's kind of a scaffolding," she said. Unlike in Ibsen's play, her female characters are at the forefront, along with the men," Raicek said. "Every character holds equal weight ... our allegiances ... are with everyone in the play," she said. "It's about how people re-narrate their memories ... we really excavate what the two women in that story have to say to one another and how they reframe narratives to suit themselves or to manipulate one another," actor Kate Fleetwood explained. While McGregor played on Broadway in 2014's The Real Thing with Maggie Gyllenhaal, his last performance in London was in 2008 in director Michael Grandage's Othello. Reuters
New European
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New European
Ewan McGregor is superb as Ibsen meets Succession
If you want My Master Builder reviewed in just three words it's Ibsen meets Succession. Lila Raicek has taken it upon herself to radically redesign the Norwegian playwright's 1892 drama The Master Builder. She switches the action to the present-day Hamptons where Ewan McGregor plays an achingly trendy architect struggling to keep his career and sanity intact as his family and competitors plot against him. His embittered wife (Kate Fleetwood) invites Mathilde (Elizabeth Debicki, the later of two Princess Dianas in The Crown) to a party and it emerges she has a sinister ulterior motive: her invitee is an ex of her husband intent on revenge. McGregor's missus, meanwhile, has her eyes on a rival architect – played by David Ajala – whose Speedos have also won the admiration of her assistant (Mirren Mack). It's a twisted climbing frame of human misery that Raicek has constructed and the actors make the most of it: McGregor is on great form – world-weary and despairing – and the women, all with their own agendas, are all magnificently brought to life. A play about architects cries out for startlingly good sets and Richard Kent rises magnificently to the occasion, evoking sunny days at the Hamptons every bit as impressively as its central character's vast glass towers. Michael Grandage as director gives all the talents involved the chance to shine and it makes for a uniquely satisfying night of theatre. After directing the film My Policeman and now My Master Builder, it can surely only be a matter of time before he revives My Beautiful Launderette.
Spectator
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
Pure gold: My Master Builder, at Wyndham's Theatre, reviewed
My Master Builder is a new version of Ibsen's classic with a tweaked title and a transformed storyline. Henry and Elena Solness are a British power couple living in the Hamptons whose relationship is in meltdown after the accidental death of their son. Elena has scrambled to reach the top of the publishing world but she feels bitter that Henry's career as an architect came to him so easily. When their marriage went awry, she played the field, seducing both men and women, and now she lusts after Henry's protegé, Ragnar, a camp young stud who may be bisexual. Ragnar is almost too complicated to understand. He's a philandering black Norwegian with dyed blond hair who speaks English in a Billy Bunter accent that includes flourishes such as 'crikey!' and 'you're acting like a little nutter,' and 'copy that' (meaning 'yes'). In dramatic terms, Ragnar is a prize that Elena must possess because her thirst for conquest is boundless. Henry, meanwhile, has remained faithful to Elena – just about. He pursued an ardent but unconsummated romance with a young journalist, Mathilde, who drafted a novel about their relationship entitled, Master. Here it gets interesting. The manuscript of this explosive work has fallen into the hands of Elena who blackmails Mathilde by offering to publish Master on condition that Henry is revealed as the book's subject. This will destroy his career. But does Elena really seek Henry's ruin? Ibsen's original story has been entirely abandoned by this point, and the show develops into a saga about a wounded alpha female in pursuit of love, sex and power. Kate Fleetwood sinks her fangs into the role of Elena and sucks out every last drop of blood.
