Rosamund Pike Talks Filming James Bond Intercourse Scene with Pierce Brosnan

Rosamund Pike is remembering an ungainly Bond lady incident.

Whereas a visitor on David Tennant’s podcast David Tennant Does a Podcast with, the 46-year-old actress detailed an ungainly second that occurred whereas filming a love scene with Pierce Brosnan for the 2002 James Bond pic Die One other Day.

Pike, who made her big-screen debut as Bond lady and double agent Miranda Frost, mentioned whereas filming a steamy scene on a swan sculpture mattress “lined in furs” with Brosnan, 70, “I found issues like nipple covers, and all of the taping.”

The Gone Woman actress mentioned what got here subsequent was a little bit of a sticky scenario.

“We have now this clinch, after which we separate, and I take a look at this physique tape and the nipple covers they usually’re lined in hair. And I believe, ‘Oh my God, I am waxing Pierce’s chest,’ ” she informed Tennant.

“I used to be so mortified,” Pike continued. “I assumed, ‘Oh my God, he is so courageous, and I am pulling off his chest hair with each embrace.’ And naturally, it took a few takes to appreciate it was not him. It was the faux fur of the rugs adorning the swan mattress. I actually thought I used to be waxing the poor man’s chest.”

Pike added although that whereas there was a large age hole between them throughout manufacturing — Brosnan was 49 and Pike was 23 when the movie debuted — she described the Irish actor as “an absolute gent.”

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Pike additionally shared on the podcast she had by no means watched a Bond movie earlier than her audition, which went a little bit awry.

“I took my mom’s live performance costume to the audition,” Pike mentioned, noting that in her opinion, that was an applicable, refined search for a Bond lady.

On the audition, Pike recalled being informed, “That may be a very, very pretty costume however Bond women put on issues extra like this” earlier than presenting “a shimmering sheath” to Pike.

The Wheel of Time star beforehand touched on her awkward audition course of in a 2018 interview with Amazon’s Audible Classes, detailing how she’d been requested to “drop my costume and seem in my underwear.”

“I simply thought in the event that they’re gonna see me in my underwear, they higher give me the job. 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 mentioned.

Pike’s subsequent film, Now You See Me Now You Do not, opens on Nov. 14. She additionally stars in Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time, which is now in its third season.