Rosamund Pike: Debut in “Die Another Day” (2002)
Rosamund Pike made her big-screen debut as Bond girl Miranda Frost in Lee Tamahori’s flashy spy thriller, Die Another Day, the 20th entry in the iconic series.
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Never having been in a movie (she has not even seen a Bond film), “everything was new to me — everything,” Pike remembers. “There’s so much mythology around the Bond films, there’s so much riding on it, so much attention on it, there’s so many eyes on it — I didn’t really understand any of that.”
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But, luckily, she felt protected by her co-stars: “Pierce Brosnan was wonderful to me, and it was pretty phenomenal to meet Halle Berry,” she says. “Her stature in the business seemed like she was on another planet, really, from me. It was when she was in her Oscar whirl and she’d just done that amazing performance in Monster’s Ball, and she seemed so glamorous.”
Pike: What better way to kick off a career than with 007? “From the very first car ride I took to the audition, in a Jaguar, I thought, ‘This is like a magic carpet into a new life. And so it turned out to be.”
