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Rosamund Pike was asked to strip to her underwear for ‘James Bond’ audition

Wed 14 May 2025 13:00, UK

Actor Rosamund Pike has revealed that she was asked to take her clothes off whilst auditioning for the 2002 James Bond movie Die Another Day.

Pike played Miranda Frost in the movie, but had a serious disagreement with the casting director in the run-up to her landing the role.

“In the Bond audition, I was asked to unzip and drop the dress I was wearing, to just stand there in underwear,” Pike said in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK. “And I thought, ‘Well, no, I’ll be doing that if I get the part. I won’t be doing that now.’ I don’t know what possessed me.”

The actor featured alongside Pierce Brosnan in the film. She stars as a Harvard graduate and Olympic fencer who disguises herself as a fellow member of MI6, only to be revealed as a double agent. In the movie’s climax, Halle Berry plays Jinx Johnson, who kills Pike’s character.

Pike has previously spoken out about the impact the movie, which came out when she was 23 years old, had on her life. “It can be quite annoying,” she confessed, per Digital Spy. “I was on the Tube in London recently, and some teenage boys were pointing and staring and asking if I was the girl in the Bond movies. I denied it. I just didn’t like it.”

The Bond Girl role often presented women as little more than eye candy; as much as landing a major role in a huge production can work wonders for any newcomer’s profile and visibility, it regularly caused difficulties when the actors tried to break out of the box that Bond had put them in.

Pike will play a newcomer magician in Now You See Me 3. The film is set for a November 14th, 2025, release.