Rosamund Pike refused to get undressed and “stand there in underwear” during her Bond audition. The actress said she was asked to “unzip and drop the dress I was wearing,” when she auditioned for her role alongside Pierce Brosnan as Miranda Frost in 2002’s Die Another Day. In a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK, Pike, who was 21 years old at the time, said she wasn’t going to do it. She told the magazine she had said, “‘Well, no, I’ll be doing that if I get the part. I won’t be doing that now,’” and added, “I don’t know what possessed me” to give such a confident refusal. Pike’s turn as the film’s double agent antagonist went over well with Die Another Day becoming the highest-grossing Bond film at the time. Pike brought the movie back into the headlines again in March when she revealed she thought she was “waxing Pierce’s chest” with her body tape while filming the “love” scene. “I was mortified,” at first she said, but “it took a couple of takes to realize it was not him. It was the fake fur of the rugs adorning the swan bed.”
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