Actress Rosamund Pike was shocked when make-up artists transformed her into an old woman for her new movie role – because she looked “hideous” with wrinkles.
The former Bond girl plays Miriam, a woman who ages from her 20s to 58, in upcoming drama Barney’s Version, and admits she was in “crisis” when she saw her future self. But Pike’s fears were short-lived – the make-up artist had accidentally transformed her into an 80-year-old lady.
The actress tells, “I had a moment of total crisis, because I thought, ‘Maybe this is what I’m going to look like. I’ll be hideous. And people are going to recoil.'” And Pike’s ageing fears were not eased by a later conversation with her mum.
“My mother told me how it feels when men no longer stop you on the Tube and tell you you’re the loveliest thing they’ve seen all day,” she said.
