Rosamund Pike Calls Her Video Game Movie “Doom” with Dwayne Johnson ‘One of the Worst Films Ever Made’: ‘Could’ve Ended My Career’

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• Rosamund Pike described her 2005 movie Doom with Dwayne Johnson as “probably one of the worst films ever made”

• The movie was an adaptation of the first-person shooter video game that revolutionized that genre in the 1990s

• “I wasn’t the right kind of girl to be in that,” Pike said

Rosamund Pike is revisiting what she believes to be the worst movie she’s made in her acting career.

Pike, 47, reflected on her 2005 action film Doom when she appeared on the podcast How to Fail with Elizabeth Day on Wednesday, March 11. Pike costarred with Dwayne Johnson in the movie, an adaptation of the influential first-person shooter video game popularized in the 1990s, just three years after she first broke out in the 2002 James Bond movie Die Another Day.

“It was a promising start — I was picked to be in the biggest action franchise of all time,” she said of her early career. “So when I was making Pride & Prejudice and I was having great fun in my cornfields in my bonnet, I get a call to be in an action franchise.”

“They were making a cinema version, a narrative version of the video game Doom. And I think in my bonnet, in my field of hay bales, ‘Yeah, I can do anything. I can jump on this hay bale in my crinoline, so I can certainly go and kill some zombies on Mars,’ ” she continued.

The actress recalled that the project was originally meant to star Ray Winstone, but ultimately Johnson, now 53, took on the leading role for the adaptation. “So suddenly I’m in this film with The Rock, and I realize how utterly ill-equipped I am to be an action star,” she said.

“The first day I meet Dwayne Johnson, who couldn’t be nicer, but is just a completely different beast from 24-year-old RP, who had a team of like macho guys around him,” the Gone Girl actress recalled. “There were people pepping him up, there were weights on the set. Every time a gun was brought out, it was kind of like a holy relic for the Doom fans… I was just out of my comfort zone, out of my league, out of my depth, and the film was an absolute bomb.”

“I mean, I probably could have ended my career,” she added. “It was just probably one of the worst films ever made. I mean, it was a catastrophe, I think. As I said, I don’t read the reviews, but you get the sense like you’re lucky to have survived that one.”

Doom was not received well — the movie holds widely negative reviews from critics and audiences alike on Rotten Tomatoes and performed poorly at the box office — but as Pike noted, neither her career nor Johnson’s suffered in the long term.

“It was probably after that that I decided to do my research [for acting roles],” she added. “I didn’t know enough about video games. I wasn’t the right kind of girl to be in that. I didn’t want to be the kind of sex symbol. So it’s okay, I guess, to fail at being an action star if to be an action star in those days was to be the kind of bombshell sex symbol. I just wasn’t that person.”

Pike even said that she worried at the time that the film failed in part “because I wasn’t hot enough.”

“If loads of guys say ‘That film is shit,’ your part of it is obviously to play your character but also kind of look hot,” she noted. “I don’t think I got that, or took that seriously or kind of worked out for the gym body that a better female action star would have done.”

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“Nobody helped me, nobody said — nowadays, I’m sure an actress cast in that would have a personal trainer, would have a sort of — there would be a conversation about, ‘You’re playing Lara Croft, this is how she should look,’ ” the Golden Globe winner added.

When host Elizabeth Day asked Pike if she had any interest in portraying an action hero today, more than 20 years removed from Doom, she quipped, “No, but if I’m going to be one, I want to bloody succeed at it.”

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