Here are some glamorous shots of seven-months pregnant Rosamund Pike outside of Rockefeller Center yesterday. She stopped by Today to talk about Gone Girl, which opens next Friday. I’m looking forward to it! Even with The Batfleck. Anyway, I’ve been looking for a reason to write more about Rosamund, because I like her and I want to see her career get a big bump from this film. So far, the reviews are complimentary towards her. Like, Rosamund and Neil Patrick Harris are the strongest parts of this film. Some critics have mixed feelings about the Batfleck and director David Fincher. But the film has an 87% critics’ score at Rotten Tomatoes. So, overwhelmingly positive. Here’s a just-released clip of Amy and Nick’s meet-cute:
It’s what I keep saying… Rosamund was a brilliant casting choice but for the love of God, I really don’t think the Batfleck was right for Nick. Many of you disagree with me. That’s fine. It should have been James Marsden or Chris Pine. Someone boyish.
As for Rosamund, she gave an interesting interview this week about how lucky she is to be with a dude who is 18 years old than her. She’s 35 – her partner Robie Uniacke is 53. He’s also a recovering heroin addict, which I didn’t know. Here’s what Pike had to say about all of that:
On Robie: “I have a very clever partner who’s got a very astute mind and is very, very well read and articulate and ruthless about how something I do might play out on screen. My tendency is to identify with a character and imagine there is more on the page than there is. He’s quite good at putting a check on that.”
Her past relationships: In her twenties, Pike was engaged to Joe Wright, the director, who called off their wedding after the ‘save the date’ cards had been dispatched. Before that she was in a relationship with the actor Simon Woods, who turned to to be gay. But she denies she doesn’t have a good “radar for men”. She told The Times magazine: “I’m still proud to have been in a relationship with them. They’re all people I admire. Even if you get hurt by someone … they’re people I’m happy to have shared time with.”
Living with an older man: “The idea that you go for an older man because you think you’re less likely to be left by him, that’s the biggest pile of crap ever. I have the good fortune of living with a very fearless person, which has been wonderful. It checks me.”
Yeah, I think she’s in denial about her man-radar. I mean, I don’t know her current partner at all and if she says she’s happy, God bless. But it’s a little bit weird/funny that she ended up with the 18-years-older ex-heroin addict, because that doesn’t really say to me “wow, Rosamund really knows how to pick ‘em.” Oh, and I remember when Joe Wright canceled their wedding at the last minute – it was really awful for her! Yeah, she has bad man mojo.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
I’m ambivalent about him personally, but all the reviews I read raved about Ben Affleck in this role. I can’t wait to see it.
I can’t wait to see it too. I really like her, she is so talented and seems down-to-earth in interviews.
Me too! Great casting ALL around.
I agree, Molly B. I’d like to know where these “mixed” reviews on Affleck are. He is getting the best reviews of anyone in the film, including Rosamund and NPH. Just because you don’t want that to be true doesn’t make it not true.
Ya know, I wasn’t too thrilled about Affleck being cast as Nick either. But…then I remembered that Nick is described as having a punchable face, and Affleck has that going for him.
I like Ben Affleck but I also find him really smug a lot of the time. When they cast him, I thought he was perfect for Nick, handsome, smug, and something vaguely unsympathetic.
While I agree Affleck is perfect for this role it doesn’t mean he can act the part.
In his day to day I think he nails the character Nick. Now, it’s unlikely to me he’ll stroll on set and be himself. He’ll act as who he thinks Nick is. And that’s where he fumbles.
Ben has gotten by with script, connections, and castmates. Not skill.
@FLORC I disagree with you about Affleck as an actor. While I admit, he isn’t my favourite choice for lead parts, with the right material he is very very good. I thought he was very good in GWH, and Shakespeare in Love. I thought he was terrific in Chasing Amy and in Hollywood land. My biggest problem with him as an actor is that he often reaches for parts beyond his range. I think the character of Nick falls into what he is capable of as an actor.
He is a killer director and screenwriter though.
I’ve seen the movie and I think Affleck is the best performance in it. He was absolutely great as Nick and I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets a (well-deserved) Oscar nomination for it.
And I must add that I highly recommend “Gone Girl”, it is a suspenseful, creepy, beautiful and well-acted movie. I think it’ll be a hit with audiences and critics (I personally gave it 4/5 stars in my review.)
Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve been sitting on a Gone Girl fence, mostly because of Ben Affleck.
How was NPH? I am such a fan and SO want him to be good in the movie.
@GlimmerBunny, is it true they changed the ending from the book?
Thanks for your insight. I do want to see this movie, as the book had me rage for weeks. I like Fincher films, and I think he did a great job with Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Mia: NPH is great, creepy and weirdly funny at the same time!
Serena: I actually haven’t read the book but I can assure you the ending is quite spectacular and unexpected. Fincher is my favorite director too, and while this movie wasn’t my ultimate favorite of his films (Fight Club forever!) it was still absolutely stellar and I can’t wait to rewatch it.
I was right in the middle of my ‘love on’ (hard on?) for Rosamund (having just seen Pride and Prejudice) when that douche Joe Wright dumped her. What I read happened was that he dumped her because on the ‘save the date’ cards, she’d put a picture of them in a hot tub without telling him, and he just called off the wedding. And to add to all that–I remember being especially pissed that the Dailymail reported that Joe Wright was driving around with a bunch of friends and strippers in his car, a week or two AFTER he called off the wedding.
Now, whenever I see his face, I see DOUCHE. DOUCHE. DOUCHE. DOUCHE. I don’t think I’ll ever forgive him…haha.
I was about to ask what happened! That’s horrible. Sounds like she dodged a bullet though. I adore Rosamund. She’s got great style, her interviews are nice, and she always happens into some of my favorite films. (As horrible as it was I loved Doom. Karl Urban too.)
Reading the headline I thought it said Rosamund defends her partner, an 18 year old ex heroin addict. There’s no defnding that if it was the case.
Wow I didn’t know she was engaged to Joe Wright. I do remember hearing that she dated the guy who played her fiance in Pride and Prejudice. Well she certainly escaped that marriage although her current love doesn’t bring a vote of confidence from me!
Yeah–Simon Woods, who plays as Mr. Bingley in Pride and Prejudice–came out as gay a few years after that movie came out. I read a few interviews–Joe Wright said that he tried not to hire Simon Woods, but said that he was so perfect for the role, that he asked Rosamund if she was fine with it–and Rosamund was. I’m inclined to believe that she and Simon parted as friends–or at least became friends soon after they broke up.
And I kind of like her and Robie together. They’re quiet, low key.
Good for her to not have any regrets, but yeah, maybe a shade of denial in there. Hope she’s happy and her baby is healthy. And her other child will no longer be ‘Solo’. Ba boom cha.
Bad shoe radar too, it seems.
They’re not awful. She’s had a slightly quirky style here and there.
She looks like a walking swatch of pink microfiber velour fabric hybrid
Well, Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode was a heroin addict and even OD’d, died for a few minutes, and he has been clean and sober for 17 or 18 years. David Bowie was a coke addict, among other things, to the point he was in a drug-induced psychosis and doesn’t even remember making one album. Both older men I would have never turned down if clean and had been in recovery for a while. Sometimes you have to look at the person they are now, not what they were and not paint their past with a broad brush. I wouldn’t get involved with an ex-addict generally or one only newly sober, but I certainly wouldn’t judge a man based on his past, but instead who he is now. Look at Robert Downey Jr. and his turnaround from a long drug past.
Well put, Jayna. Plenty of sober a-holes on the street that should be in recovery for their assholism for that matter.
“slow clap”
Excellent points, Jayna.
Well said, Jayna.
Nikki Sixx, also. Clean and sober for a very long time. “Ex” is the key word here.
Bingo to all.
So true. Anthony Bourdain too. Not to mention an uncle of mine who is now an amazing, caring, responsible, healthy person the whole family can depend on.
I don’t disagree in principle, but the people being named are exceptions. NOT the rule.
I hope all goes well for her career-wise, baby-wise, relationship wise. I know I’m always pleased to see her name in the credits and hope she finally gets the attention she deserves.
I re-read the book in advance of the movie, and did so imaging the actors as the characters. I was skeptical of Ben at first, but could totally see him in the role now. I think she’s been a great choice all along.
I don’t know much about her personal life, but I think she’s been with this guy for a while and seems happy.
I’m going to superficial here and say I truly do not get this pairing.
Superfically I don’t either. Love isn’t obvious to those on the outside of it.
Maybe he gives great helmet….;)
Meh. “Heroin addict” is not one size fits all. Plenty of smart and successful people have, sadly, had drug/alcohol addictions. How long has he been recovering? I think the late, great PSH had been a recovering addict for 20+ years, before his tragic overdose. As for 18 years older — given that she is 35 year old it doesn’t really seem all that bad.
But that’s the exact point. In recovery twenty years and everyone thinks he’s fine…and then BOOM. gone.
I agree with anon33. It doesn’t make him a bad person, it makes him a high risk partner. Time is not a factor with Heroin, you could get hooked after a couple of times of use. It is a terrible thing and you can’t white wash it.
Also, “heroin addict” encompasses many degrees of dependency.
Keef had ten years on it, whilst others sniff it just a few times over one year, duri momexplorati/painful/hopeless phase in their life……but both are labelled as addicts, ex or not.
•Re Rosalind here. ^^^: cripes, she’s half Swinton, half Grace Kelly……I j’adore!!
• Re denial: FWIW I reckon it offers legitimate coping methods, and doesn’t *have* to be a negative reaction.
If you were a person who dwelled on personal injuries, especially in a love affair, then you’d condemn youself to permanent unhappiness, by reliving painful episodes, a terrible loss. Far better to retain only happy memories, even if that entails fibbing to one’s self. Denial could help one to move on.
🙂
I don’t understand how some of the most successful and beautiful women in the world can end up with the ugliest, weirdest, most abusive men. I’m very picky when it comes to men so whenever I see a celebrity story about a star with an unattractive douchebag it boggles my mind. I just googled Rosamund’s boyfriend’s name and i was instantly repulsed by him. Maybe he treats her well so she is okay with dating him but I think she can do so much better.
87% fresh with just fifteen reviews (more than half of which don’t fall under Top Critics)? Not persuasive.
She looks good, though.
I saw that Variety raved about it, and in the past I have agreed with their assessments.
I daresay that’s not untypical for a Fincher film.
Just labeling her partner an “ex heroin addict” is pretty broad. Addiction comes in all shapes and sizes, affects people in all different ways, and people recover in different ways. It is something you live with forever, you never stop fighting the addiction, but that doesn’t make him someone no worth being with, not worthy of having a partner or a family.
Sheesh. Why is she responsible for the past behavior of men she has been with? Someone who came out as gay: obviously was lying. Joe Wright cancelling at the last minute: a bit of a douche.
Her current partner’s past? Why is she responsible for his past? He could have been recovered for thirty years and lived a wonderfully upright, good and interesting life.
Why always blame the woman for bad radar? This is so stupid. No one actually knows what causes us to love someone. So dumb. So retro. So anti love. What, everyone is supposed to calculatingly determine exactly who someone is (when no one truly ever knows another) and then calculatingly assess every future possibility with that person. Ha ha. That’s not life. Life is one day at a time. Let’s stop judging other people’s love lives–especially since everyone is so bad at their own.
I completely agree with you, well said.
“anti-love?” ok.
Love does not conquer all. I really really wish women would stop beleiveing that tripe. Every single woman in an abusive situation says “But I love him.”
I know this because I used to be one of these women.
Ugh. Is the whole movie going to have that dark cinematography? It gave me a headache, I had to strain my eyes to try and make anything out.
Plenty of scenes are outside and has light cinematography. I personally wan’t bothered by it being too dark even in night scenes and I usually HATE movies that are too dark.
It’s so gross when you see a man out with a baby or young child and yiu assume it’s the grandfather only to discover that it’s the Dad. Ick. I wish men and women had similar biological clocks.
It’s “gross” to YOU. Not to everyone.
There hasn’t been much press coverage of this, but there have been several recent studies showing male fertility declines 40-50% by aged 40. Other studies show another big drop between 41 and 45. Previous studies only looked at sperm under a microscope, not at actual human beings. The older a man gets the less likely he is to get a woman pregnant, the longer it takes him to get a woman pregnant, even if she is much younger and the less likely she is to be able to take a baby to term, regardless of her age.
The average time it takes a man in his early 40s to get a woman pregnant is TWO YEARS. Miscarriage rates for women partnered with men in their 40s average 33%, even if she’s 17. Even when researchers eliminated men who had sex less frequently, drank or smoked, had had an STD, were overweight, or anything else that could cause fertility to decline they still found big drops in fertility even by age 35.
I read this whole article thinking she was dating an 18 year old…totally misread that headline
Haha me too! When I read the headline I was like ‘WHAAAT she is dating an 18-year old ex-heroin addict? How didn’t I know this?’
And yet Kate Moss doesn’t get shade for her drug use…
Recovery is the important word in that sentence. Well done Rosamund. I adore her. Especially in World’s End with Simon Pegg. She’s a funny lady.
Those shoes are just awful
I’m really excited to see this movie. I really liked the book, I love Fincher, and I think the casting is brilliant.
I think she looks beautiful and so elegant in this picture. I dont usually like a lot if maternity looks these days, but this is gorgeous.
I love her ensemble
On the man-dar I have to say I really like what Pike has had to say about her former partners. None of us are perfect – drug addiction isn’t a higher level of imperfect, it is what it is. And he has obviously been able to get it under control. If that ceases then Pike might want to re-assess her options in the relationship. It does not mean she has poor taste in men. And much better for her former fiance to call it off before the wedding not afterward. It is a lot healthier to concentrate on what you got out of the relationships, the positives, instead of what didn’t work. I am sure she has filed away what didn’t work for future reference, but her focus on the positive in such a mature and articulate manner indicates an emotionally healthy, mature response on her part. Not one of someone with ‘bad judgement’.
I can relate somewhat similarly – I am my husband’s third wife and I was warned by numerous individuals not to get involved with him as his track record with women was unreliable. These warnings included some from his ”friends”. 8.5 years later, 6 of them married I am the happiest I have ever been in any of my relationships. And so is he. And both of us have had quite a bit of experience. I would have missed out on the love of my laugh and much happiness if I had applied the same equation about woman-dar to my now husband’s interest in me. Thank God I didn’t.
I’m impressed with Pike….less so the judgement inherent in the article.
“He’s quite good at putting a check on that.” “I have the good fortune of living with a very fearless person, which has been wonderful. It checks me.” It sounds like there is an awful lot of checking going on here, is this a relationship or a basketball game?
Uniacke looks like Joe Wright at a glance.