Rosamund Pike: ‘How do you feel when someone calls you an English rose? Objectified’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Pike describes the pair as “innocents”; there’s something ghoulish about the sight of Curie clutching a vial of radium as she sleeps, like a lethal comfort blanket. Curie is not only a witness to these events but she floats through them in the film’s climax – only partially comforted by the words of her late husband: “You threw a stone in the water, the ripples you can’t control.” As Pike argues: “You’ve got to do something radical when you’re dealing with a radical mind like Madame Curie.” An earlier cut of the film opened with Hiroshima – “an alarming and frightening” approach, which she believes “would have set the tone for what we’re dealing with here, which is a film that’s not easy, not palatable, not nice, not friendly”. It’s going to keep the franchise moving forward, which it has to do.” open image in gallery Breakout: as Miranda Frost in ‘Die Another Day’ She pauses, laughs: “I feel that Marie Curie took the same pleasure as Phoebe Waller-Bridge in shocking people.” Curie’s later years were plagued by infamy, after the press got word of her affair with fellow physicist Paul Langevin, a married man. open image in gallery Bewitching: alongside Ben Affleck in ‘Gone Girl’ “She always looked slightly impatient,” she says.