Rosamund Pike is finally sharing the details of an intensely awkward on-set moment with James Bond icon Pierce Brosnan while filming the 2002 movie, Die Another Day . During a recent appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show , the former Bond girl revisited the intimate scene that went spectacularly wrong.
The scene required the two actors to “tumble around with one another” inside the film’s elaborate ice palace set.Pike was only 21 years old at the time, facing Brosnan, who was already a acknowledged “icon” having starred in three previous Bond installments. For the intimate sequence, Pike was fitted with “modesty” coverings. She explained to Clarkson, “They tape up your boobs and tape every bit of you with this kind of double-sided sticky tape. I had never seen it before.”
The moment of sheer panic occurred immediately after a passionate clinch with Brosnan. Pike instinctively looked down to ensure her sticky coverings were still in place, only to find they were completely covered in what she immediately perceived as hair. Her internal alarm bells rang instantly.
“I looked down to check these sticky things are still in place, and they were covered in hair,” Pike recalled. She cried out in horror, thinking, “Oh my god, I’ve waxed Pierce Brosnan’s chest with my boob tape! This is so bad, poor guy.” Host Kelly Clarkson chimed in, calling the image of the hair-covered tape “disgusting.”
However, Pike then revealed the hilarious clarification: it was not Brosnan’s chest hair at all. “It was the furry rugs ,” she revealed, noting that they had been rolling around in fake fur rugs used as set dressing. Pike recalls visibly cringing as she confesses, “And I thought I was just getting more and more covered in Pierce’s chest hair.”
Judi Dench’s Dangerous Dare
Brosnan was not the only acting legend Pike discussed. She also recalled a memorable moment she shared with Dame Judi Dench while they were working on a play together in London. When asked to recall a dare she received from a co-star, Pike described receiving a letter from a male fan asking her out to dinner at the stage door.
“Judi Dench said, ‘Oh Rossie, you must go,’” Pike recalled. When Pike expressed her concern, saying, “Judy I might be murdered,” Dench calmly insisted, “No he sounds very, very nice.” Pike, adhering to the rule that “When Judi Dench tells you to do something, you do it,” accepted the stranger’s invitation.
The situation took a terrifying turn once she sat down for dinner. The man told her, “If you’ve Googled me and read the story about the body that up on the beach near my house…,” prompting Clarkson to leap from her chair in disbelief, insisting Washing Pike must be joking (she was not). Clarkson immediately warned her audience: “Do not say yes to dinner with a stranger, no matter if Judi Dench tells you to. She wanted you to be a Dateline special!”
Would you like me to find out the title of the play Rosamund Pike and Judi Dench worked on together in London? The play that Rosamund Pike and Judi Dench worked on together in London was Madame de Sade by Yukio Mishima.
Rosamund Pike played the title role of Renée, Madame de Sade , and Judi Dench played her mother, Madame de Montreuil .
The production was staged in 2009 at the Wyndham’s Theater in London as part of the Donmar Warehouse’s West End season.