Rosamund Pike Says She Refused to ‘Unzip and Drop the Dress’ in Her Bond Audition: ‘Don’t Know What Possessed Me’

https://people.com/rosamund-pike-refused-to-undress-for-die-another-day-audition-11733966

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  1. > “In the Bond audition, I was asked to unzip and drop the dress I was wearing, to just stand there in underwear,” Pike told the magazine. “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 ultimately landed the role that became her big-screen debut opposite Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond for the 2002 spy film.

  2. Good for her! That ballsiness paid off, she’s got quite the career now. Can’t say I’m surprised about that request tho….

  3. Good for her. Anyone asking an auditioning actress to do this deserves to be whipped for that.

  4. I’ll literally watch anything Rosamunds in, she’s so damn good!

  6. shameless self PR stories that might never happened exactly like that

  8. But people got mad at Daniel Craig when he said Bond was a sexist misogynist

  11. Why did they have to have her strip off her dress and just stand there in nothing but her underwear when they could’ve just had her come in or change into a bathing suit or something to show her body yet not have her so exposed. But they probably didn’t do that because they never needed her to strip anyway cause they were never gunna put that in the movie. Clearly the people auditioning actors were taking advantage of their power over these young, desperate & naive actresses and wanted see them all naked, ugh hope they weren’t filming it too for their own sick pleasure

  12. I loved Die Another Day, I don’t know what fascinated me more, that there was a North Korean plot that was refreshing from the usual russian/middle east enemies, or that Halle Berry was a bond girl

  15. Geez that’s so fucked up they’re still pulling that shit.

  16. Of course this created an entire discourse in this comments section lol

  17. How many other women had to strip down and not get the part. Hollywood is gross.

  18. Looking at the comments we’re at a strange impasse between two progressive mindsets.

    1. people advocating for women to not show their bodies, even when the role and casting call requires it

    and

    2. the opinion that women should have the right to show their bodies in any environment / less restrictions or no restrictions for sexual and bodily autonomy

    They can both work hand-in-hand like this story here, but I’d suggest if a casting call requires it and it’s going to be in a scene, then you’d need to know what you’re working with to cast the actor for the scene.

  20. She should have refused to drop her dignity for the Wheel of Time series.

  21. Too bad she was in probably the worst Bond movie ever made

  22. If an important part of your character is their sexuality and sex appeal, how is it unreasonable to ask to see the body of the person that you need to be sexy on camera?

    It really wouldn’t make much narrative sense if we kept calling people hot but hiring unattractive people to play them, would it?

    And the way the dress is slipped off is also a part of the acting in that scene. There are some very unattractive ways to get undressed, and if she’s supposed to be seductive in the scene, it would make sense for them to want to know how she would perform that specific, important action.

    This might seem gross if she was supposed to play a lawyer in a courtroom drama or something, but she’s supposed to play a sexy Bond woman. That involves having your sexiness verified, and if you don’t like that, don’t go out for the sexy, seductive lady role.

  23. I understand her stance but its a Bond film, she had to know you’re not going to keep your clothes on completely. Rather undress or half dress, Bond films is what it is.

    Maybe she thought she was auditioning for Moneypenny./s

  25. This article refers to an interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK. There’s a link, but it is broken. Searching for it, I don’t see an interview, but there is an article about the subject from 2018.

    [https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/celebrities/news/a22742995/rosamund-pike-refused-to-strip-down-to-her-underwear-for-james-bond-audition/](https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/celebrities/news/a22742995/rosamund-pike-refused-to-strip-down-to-her-underwear-for-james-bond-audition/)

    It, and other outlets from that time, cite an interview for Amazon Audible Sessions, some saying it was to promote her narration of Pride and Prejudice. All I can find are short versions that do not go into her own career. Even though I cannot find the original source, it seems to me alot of commentors here are overreacting. Apparently she said:

    >”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,” she continued.

    >”There wasn’t an ounce of feeling uncomfortable while I was on that set.”

  26. Fucking Hollywood is disgusting. I mean they all told us but it’s just hitting again that only one rapist creep went down for decades of horrible behavior.

  27. >’Well, no, I’ll be doing that if I get the part. I won’t be doing that now.’

    Me when I get asked to do 347 tasks for free during the 6th round of interviews.

    Jokes aside, we love to see it.

  28. What would be cool is if instead of saying “I was asked” she was able to name who asked her.

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