Rosamund Pike has been living with a recovering heroin addict who is 18 years older than she is...
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[h=1]Rosamund Pike: How my ex-addict lover (age 53) gave me new lease of life[/h] [h=2]Former Bond girl Rosamund Pike tells how her older partner's advice has helped her acting career[/h]
By Patrick Sawer
10:11AM BST 20 Sep 2014
The actress Rosamund Pike, star of Jack Reacher and the forthcoming Gone Girl, has credited her Old Etonian partner, a recovering heroin addict 18-years her senior, with bringing focus to her career.
The former Bond girl, who suffered a string of broken relationships before she met Robie Uniacke, a mathematical researcher, says his “astute mind” helped shape the way she approaches her characters.
She said: “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.”
Pike, who has been with Uniacke for six years, first grabbed public attention when she landed the role of the Bond girl in Die Another Day at the age of 21, before going on to appear in Pride and Prejudice and An Education, but she denies that success has fallen into her lap.
“I feel very uncomfortable because people think I have walked into this profession through connections and looks, and they somehow think it’s easy – and it’s not f****** easy. I don’t have connections. And I didn’t have parents, or a social set, who had anything to do with the film industry,” she said.
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Her parents are opera singers who raised her in a flat in Earl’s Court before she won a scholarship to Badminton School, in Bristol. From there she went to Wadham College, Oxford, temping to pay her way and avoid getting into debt. “As an actress I never thought I’d be earning any money,” she said.
Pike, who appears on the cover of Vogue this month, admits she could sometimes appear 'aloof’ and 'ethereal’, putting it down to her determination to become an actress from an early age.
She said: “I’m passionately driven – to the point of oddness. Maybe I had all those airs. I had to shed myself of all that crap. This point is what I’ve been working for since I was small sitting at the side of my parents’ rehearsal rooms and figuring out what I believed in.”
Now she is about to appear opposite Ben Affleck in one of Hollywood’s most sought after female roles, the murderous wife Amy Dunne in Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher, who flew her to St Louis to drink whisky with him to see if she had the “balls” to play the part.
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.”
Now 35, Pike is seven months pregnant and the birth of the baby will coincide with the release of both Gone Girl and What We Did on Our Holidays, the story of a couple about to divorce. She also has a two year old son with twice-married Uniacke.
He was previously married to Emma Howard, 59, daughter of the late Earl of Carlisle with whom he has a son, also called Robie. They both checked into rehab clinics to deal with their addictions after their marriage ended unhappily.
His second wife, Rose Batstone, is an interior designer with whom he has three children
Pike describes Uniacke as the most interesting person she’s ever come across and dismisses suggestions that the age gap between them is a sign of her desperation.
“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,” she said.
never seen an actress go from a angelic 10 to a dowdy 2 and back to a smokin hot psycho 10 all in the same movie. have to agree with the too long comment, as it stretched way to much trying to put in the entire book. definitely a chick flick, all the strong intelligent character's are women and the men flawed weak pieces of .........
