Rosamund Pike was left shaken and stirred following a “James Bond” intercourse scene with Pierce Brosnan.
The “Gone Girl” actress opened up in regards to the incident on the Tuesday, April 1, episode of “David Tennant Does a Podcast With …” whereas discussing the 2002 movie “Die Another Day.”
Pike, 46, mentioned she was left “mortified” after she by accident “waxed” Brosnan’s chest whereas “doing the love scene” with the 71-year-old Irish actor.
“I think, ‘Oh my God, I’m waxing Pierce’s chest,’” Pike, who performed the undercover MI6 and double agent Miranda Frost within the movie, 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.’”
Fortunately for the English actress, she shortly realized after “a couple of takes” that “it was not” Brosnan however “the fake fur of the rugs” on the mattress they had been filming on.
“I literally thought I was waxing the poor man’s chest!” she joked.
Pike’s podcast interview comes after the “Saltburn” actress revealed she was requested to “drop my dress and appear in my underwear” whereas auditioning for the “James Bond” movie.
Regardless of refusing to strip right down to her underwear, Pike nonetheless landed the function.
“My first audition was for a Bond film, and I remember them saying I was to drop my dress and appear in my underwear,” she revealed throughout an Amazon Audible Session in 2018, in response to the Impartial. “On the day, I don’t know how I got the resolve and strength of mind, but I just thought, ‘Actually sod that, if they’re gonna see me in my underwear, they better give me the job.’”
She continued, “So, I thought, ‘There’s no way I’m going to take off a dress in the audition for this tape to be sent around Los Angeles and to be judged on that.’”
Pike, who was 21 throughout her audition for “Die Another Day,” additionally mentioned she arrived at her display check in her grandmother’s silk robe.
“The costume designer said, ‘That’s a very beautiful dress, but in Bond films we wear things a little more like this’, and she held up three pieces of string,” the “Wheel of Times” actress mentioned. “I realized I was in a completely different world and way out of my depth. So, I put on this shimmering sheath, or whatever the order of the day was, but I didn’t drop it.”
In different Bond information, Brosnan lately recommended he “could get away with” enjoying the long-lasting spy once more regardless of retiring from the function after the 2002 flick with Pike.
The franchise, which was formally taken over by Amazon MGM Studios in February, is at the moment on the hunt for a brand new actor to tackle the Bond mantle.
“Let’s see where the wind takes us. Let’s see what happens. They know where to find me,” Brosnan mentioned on Tuesday’s episode of “Today.” “Why not?”
“I mean, there’s great things you can do with AI as well, so there you have it,” he added. “I’m quite content the way it is.”
The “Mamma Mia!” actor beforehand mentioned a attainable Bond comeback in March throughout an interview with GQ.
“I think it’s best to let sleeping dogs lie, really. I think so. It’s a rather romantic notion and idea, but I think everything changes, everything falls apart,” he informed the journal on the time. “I think that it’s best left to another man, really. Fresh blood.”
“I’m very proud to have been part of the history and the legacy of Bond and the movies that I made with [producers] Barbara [Broccoli] and Michael [G. Wilson],” he additionally informed the Telegraph final month. “That we moved the needle, that we brought it back to life.”
Moreover Brosnan, Bond has been performed by Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, and Timothy Dalton.
Daniel Craig, the final actor to play Agent 007 within the Eon Productions movies, retired from the function after 2021’s “No Time to Die.”
