Rosamund Pike talks about Bond-sex and her fate as a fridge magnet

14-Oct-2002 • Die Another Day

Rosamund Pike, who plays MI6 agent Miranda Frost in "Die Another Day", has given an indepth interview to The Guardian.

"Oh, the sex scene," sighs Rosamund Pike wearily. "Why does everyone want to know about the sex scene?"

According to the movie`s director, Lee Tamahori, "It was time for the guy to have some real fun." "It`s been blown out of all proportion," insists the 23-year-old Pike, and not in a Benny Hill kind of way. "We`re making a PG movie here. This isn`t Bond-porn. We do get to romp, for want of a better word, but it`s all very modest. At one point, I did find myself thinking, God, I`m in bed with James Bond, but Pierce put me at ease. He was telling me about his first-ever sex scene, which sounded pretty full-on. I mean, no one on the set even saw my breasts," she avers.

Saying this, Pike glances down at her low-cut, black stretch top and pulls the sides together self-consciously. It`s teamed with a black A-line skirt and mid-calf-length boots, and this, along with her English rose complexion, cut-glass voice and quizzical, off-kilter manner, gives her an air of bohemian eccentricity. She seems a little bemused by all the extracurricular falderal - interviews, photosessions, 16-year-old boys already sending her fan letters - that comes with blockbuster-related territory. "I couldn`t have landed a crazier thing to be a part of," she says, shaking her head. "I feel like the new girl at school."

Ideally, Pike says, she`d like to bust through the PG barrier and get into some real nudity - of the emotional kind. "I want to do something as raw and visceral as Emily Watson did in Breaking the Waves" she enthuses. For now, though, she`s preparing for the premieres - her escort will be Simon, a fellow actor she`s been seeing for "a good few years" - and contemplating the prospect of her likeness being grafted on to action figures and fridge magnets. "Of all the places I imagined acting would take me," she says, "being stuck to someone`s fridge wasn`t one of them."

Click here for the full interview.

Thanks to `MBE` for the alert.