Rosamund Pike is in her healing era!
26.12.2023 - 22:59 / deadline.com
As Elspeth Catton, Saltburn’s bohemian but bloodless matriarch, Rosamund Pike strikes an unnervingly accurate note as the crushingly careless mother of Jacob Elordi’s character Felix. When Felix brings home Oliver (Barry Keoghan), his apparently lame duck of a new friend from Oxford University, Elspeth is delighted to add a new tragic case to her collection of playthings. Already among them is Carey Mulligan’s lost soul character, Poor Dear Pamela — an old friend on the run from a messy breakup with a Russian oligarch. Here, Pike pays tribute to the world created by writer-director Emerald Fennell, and its unpredictable outcome.
DEADLINE: As a Brit like you, I’ve been waiting for someone to skewer this upper-class world for so long — there are rules that you’re never told, and if you figure out what they are, they change into something else, so you are never allowed to fit in or get it right.
ROSAMUND PIKE: No. If you’re overdressed, you’re wrong, or if you’re underdressed. You are somehow wrong and you don’t quite know why or how. And even being an actress is wrong, for a start, because it means you take something seriously, and it’s not really the done thing to take anything too seriously. I really care about acting, and I’m very serious about it, and I’d be a terrible bore to someone like Elspeth. There would always be people who would say to me, ‘Oh, you got some work? You’ve got a film? Clever you,’ and you just know that you’re hearing nice words like ‘clever you’ and you just know it’s a criticism. So to be Elspeth was really refreshing, it was really fun to be able to live inside that skin.
DEADLINE: I remember going on holiday with a really posh family when I was 14 and the mother announcing to me at
Rosamund Pike is in her healing era!
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Rosamund Pike is opening up about her show-stopping headpiece.
Golden Globes last night, after being in a skiing accident over the holidays.The actor, who had been nominated for Best Supporting Female Actor in a Motion Picture for her performance in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, arrived on the red carpet in a dramatic black Dior gown, sporting a meshy black veil over her face.Speaking to Variety in an interview on the red carpet she revealed that she “had a skiing accident over Christmas,” adding that it’s “not what you want, knowing that you’re coming to the Golden Globes”.She continued: “On the 26th of December, my face was entirely smashed up and I thought, I need to do something.”Rosamund Pike says she had a skiing accident the day after Christmas. #GoldenGlobes https://t.co/bTYJ1neAOi pic.twitter.com/HWqVitwVfY— Variety (@Variety) January 7, 2024 She also suggested that she was inspired by her eccentric and glamorous character in Saltburn, Elspeth Catton, saying “Well you know, you have to channel it don’t you, either a weird, sort of, weird funeral vibe or, maybe she wore black for her wedding.
Rosamund Pike has revealed she “smashed up” her face in a skiing accident just days before attending the Golden Globes.The actress, who was nominated for her supporting role in Saltburn, said she opted to wear a black Dior couture lace gown with a mesh top and structured black veil covering her face after the accident on Boxing Day. Rosamund also said the ensemble was a tribute to her character, former model Elspeth Catton, telling Variety: “You have to channel it, don’t you? “Either a weird funeral vibe or maybe she wore black for her wedding.
are traditionally known as the biggest party in Hollywood, but at the 2024 awards was a little more funereal than celebratory. This is mostly because she accessorized her black lace tea-dress with a black fascinator veil like an Italian widow in the 1960s. According to Pike, she wasn't just trying to channel her inner with this look.
Golden Globes. The “Saltburn” star graced Sunday’s carpet in a black Dior Haute Couture gown and matching headpiece that she called a “protective veil” in an interview with Variety’s Marc Malkin.
Rosamund Pike is stealing the show on the red carpet!
Saltburn.Keoghan’s character becomes enamoured with Elordi’s popular boy Felix Catton while they are studying at Oxford University. The two bond and Felix invites Oliver to stay at his family’s ancestral home, Saltburn, over the summer.Though Keoghan has been frequently praised for his performance, Elordi has now revealed that someone else was originally eyed up for his part.Elordi recalls in an interview with Vogue UK asking Keoghan “what drew” him to the film, the latter replied: “When I met Emerald, she told me that she had you kind of down to do it. So, Emerald, yourself and the script… what about you?” [via The Independent].Elordi then said: “Definitely yeah, it was Emerald,” and added, with laughter: “Then she said she wanted Timothée Chalamet for it.
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Well, not hard to wonder why someone wouldn’t want this made public!
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Rosamund Pike has won over fans with her performances as Elspeth in the movie Saltburn, which is now streaming on Prime Video.