Rosamund Pike detailed simply how awkward and mortifying it was to movie the intercourse scene in “Die One other Day” with Pierce Brosnan.
On Tuesday’s episode of “David Tennant Does a Podcast With …,” the actress talked about how she “found issues like nipple covers and all of the taping” whereas making her large display screen debut as one in all James Bond’s love pursuits, Miranda Frost, in 2002.
“We’ve this clinch after which we separate,” Pike, 46, recalled. “I have a look at this physique tape and the nipple covers they usually’re coated in hair. And I feel, ‘Oh my God, I’m waxing Pierce’s chest!’”
She additional defined that she was “so mortified” as a result of she thought she was “pulling off hair with each embrace.”
Nevertheless, after a number of takes, she realized that she wasn’t truly hurting the “Mamma Mia!” star -— however that she was merely coated within the “pretend fur” of the rugs they have been rolling in.
“I actually thought I used to be waxing the poor man’s chest!” the “Gone Lady” actress acknowledged once more.
Whereas chatting, Tennant additionally identified that the extraordinary scene may have been awkward attributable to their 26-year age hole. On the time the film debuted, she was simply 23, whereas Brosnan was 49.
As Tennant mentioned Brosnan was “older than your dad,” Pike insisted he “couldn’t have been extra supportive or sort” whereas filming the enduring motion film.
Her interplay with the “Thomas Crown Affair” star, now 71, definitely wasn’t the primary time she felt uncomfortable as an actress.
The “Pleasure & Prejudice” star beforehand revealed that she refused to disrobe for her very first audition for the position of the Bond villainess.
“My first audition was for a Bond movie, and I keep in mind them saying I used to be to drop my costume and seem in my underwear,” she mentioned throughout a 2018 look on Amazon’s Audible Classes, in line with Indiewire.
“On the day, I don’t know the way I bought the resolve and strength of will, however I simply thought in the event that they’re gonna see me in my underwear, they higher give me the job,” she continued.
“So, I assumed, ‘There’s no means I’m going to take off a costume within the audition for this tape to be despatched round Los Angeles and to be judged on that.’”
Pike finally did the audition her means and nonetheless landed the position.
“So, I placed on this shimmering sheath, or regardless of the order of the day was, however I didn’t drop it,” she recalled.
Following her success as a Bond woman, the actress went on to land roles in “Saltburn,” “I Care A Lot” and “The Libertine,” plus many extra.
