Los Angeles, March 13 – Hollywood actress Rosamund Pike says she feels incredibly "lucky" that her career has survived starring in "one of the worst films ever made".
The 47-year-old actress's career got off to a "promising start" when she played Miranda Frost in the James Bond film Die Another Day in 2002, but she realised she would never be an action star after she was cast as scientist Samantha Grimm in the 2005 video game adaptation of Doom, according to ‘Female First UK’.
Speaking on How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, Rosamund said, "When I was making Pride and Prejudice, and I was having a lot of fun in my cornfields with my bonnet on, I received a call to be in an action franchise.
"They were making a cinema version, a narrative version of the video game Doom. And I thought, 'Yes, I can do anything. I can jump on this hay bale in my crinoline, so I can certainly go and kill some zombies on Mars’”.
Ray Winstone was originally slated to star in the film, which follows a team of interstellar marines battling against space demons, but he was replaced by WWE star Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, and Rosamund recalled a set dominated by "macho guys".
She said, "So suddenly I'm in this film with The Rock, and I realise how utterly ill-equipped I am to be an action star. There were weights on the set. Every time a gun was brought out, it was kind of like a holy relic for the Doom fans. I was just out of my comfort zone, out of my league, out of my depth”.
Doom was critically panned and a box-office flop, and Rosamund knows that it wasn't one of the best films she's ever starred in.
She bluntly said, "It was an absolute bomb. I mean, I probably could have ended my career. It was just probably one of the worst films ever made. I mean, it was a catastrophe. You get the sense like you're lucky to have survived that one”.
But the Gone Girl star learned some lessons from the experience.
She said, "It was probably after that that I started to do my research, because I didn't know enough about video games. I just wasn't that person”.