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HYPE: Rosamund Pike Playing a Bond girl is a great leap for British actress Rosamund Pike, considering her roots--her background is mainly in theater. While studying English literature at Oxford, she appeared in many of the school's plays. After that she starred in a few BBC films. So Die Another Day is Pike's first mainstream movie. What was the experience like? "Overwhelming--I worked with Madonna, Judi Dench and Halle Berry in one fell swoop," Pike, 23, says. "It doesn't get any bigger than that." Pike's character, the sexy, smart, mysterious Miranda Frost, seems bigger than life--she's a former gold medal Olympic fencing champ who gets entangles with James Bond. But taking on a showy role wasn't really that daunting for Pike because she has performing in her genes--both parents are professional opera singers. A big Hollywood career doesn't seem that far off for the actress, either. After all, on her visit to Los Angeles, for this very photo shoot, she said she felt at home in the city. "I stepped off the plane," she says, "and thought, 'This place excites me.'" One of the perks for Pike, now that she's a bona fide Bond girl, is having a makeup collection inspired by her character. Revlon's "007 Color Collection," due this winter features "The Look of Miranda Frost"--a set of colors that include lip glosses in Polar Pink and Iced Lilac, and a mascara in Bond Black. --Anna Lisa Raya |
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But unlike many headline-grabbing actresses, Jolie is even more interesting on-screen than off. The dangerously screwed-up beauties she has played in George Wallace, Gia, Playing by Heart, Pushing Tin and Girl, Interrupted have all been tangible, believable creations. In her first big-budget thriller, The Bone Collector, she easily matched the skill and intensity of Denzel Washington. She's likely to stun audiences as the take-no-prisoners action heroine Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, a fantasy adventure adap from the video game by director Simon West (see story on p. 54). And who isn't looking forward to watching her later this summer when she plays the sex-obsessed femme fatale who enraptures Antonio Banderas in Original Sin? When Angelina Jolie greets me for this interview, she strikes me as someone fully capable of doing all that she has done offscreen and all that she's expected to do on-screen as Lara Croft. She's dressed in a black T-shirt and black leather jacket, and she looks like she might throw a mean right if provoked. "Call me Angie," she says, reaching out to shake my hand. I can tell she is indeed something like her father--intense, focused. And I have little doubt that, like her father, she'll be original in her thinking. For Lawrence Grobel's interview pick up the June issus of Movieline. PAGE 1 | 2 |