You might assume it’d be pretty hard to get into character as Gone Girl’s Amy Dunne, but star Rosamund Pike has said the minute she read the book she knew she had “this person in me.”


“I read the character and I felt, ‘God. I could do this’,” Pike says. “I’ve got this person in me, as disturbing as that is.”

“It’s much easier to say ‘I’ve got Jane Bennett in me’ than ‘I’ve got Amy Dunne in me’,” the actress who once starred in Pride and Prejudice continues, adding: “But if you’re going to be honest in your work, you’ve got to admit that you’re complicated and you’ve got all the sides.”

When it came to actually getting on set and starting to play the troubled character, things weren’t as straight forward. Pike says the start of shooting triggered “sheer panic” and “emotional upheaval.”

“I remember leaving home in a sort of state of sheer panic really, or emotional upheaval more. I mean, in tears, thinking I’m about to step into this sort of juggernaut of a part and am I up to it? I had a vision in my head, and am I going to be able to accomplish it or get anywhere near it?”

Clearly Pike had nothing to worry about, though. Her turn as Amazing Amy has since received critical praise – and earned her her very first Academy Award nomination.


Gone Girl is out on Blu-ray and DVD on 2nd February