Dwayne Johnson, Karl Urban and Rosamund Pike in 2005’s Doom Rosamund Pike described her 2005 movie Doom<\/em> with Dwayne Johnson as “probably one of the worst films ever made”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n The movie was an adaptation of the first-person shooter video game that revolutionized that genre in the 1990s<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n “I wasn’t the right kind of girl to be in that,” Pike said<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Rosamund Pike<\/a> is revisiting what she believes to be the worst movie she’s made in her acting career.<\/p>\n Pike, 47, reflected on her 2005 action film Doom<\/em> when she appeared on the podcast How to Fail with Elizabeth Day<\/em><\/a> on Wednesday, March 11. Pike costarred with Dwayne Johnson<\/a> 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<\/a> movie Die Another Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n “It was a promising start \u2014 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<\/em> and I was having great fun in my cornfields in my bonnet, I get a call to be in an action franchise.”<\/p>\n “They were making a cinema version, a narrative version of the video game Doom<\/em>. And I think in my bonnet, in my field of hay bales, \u2018Yeah, 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,’\u00a0” she continued.<\/p>\n Rosamund Pike in 2005’s Doom The actress recalled that the project was originally meant to star Ray Winstone<\/a>, but ultimately Johnson, now 53, took on the leading role for the adaptation. \u201cSo suddenly I\u2019m in this film with The Rock, and I realize how utterly ill-equipped I am to be an action star,” she said.<\/p>\n “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 <\/em>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<\/em> fans… I was just out of my comfort zone, out of my league, out of my depth, and the film was an absolute bomb.”<\/p>\n “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\u2019t read the reviews, but you get the sense like you\u2019re lucky to have survived that one.”<\/p>\n Doom<\/em> was not received well \u2014 the movie holds widely negative reviews from critics and audiences alike on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> and performed poorly at the box office <\/a>\u2014 but as Pike noted, neither her career nor Johnson’s suffered in the long term.<\/p>\n “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.\u00a0I just wasn’t that person.”<\/p>\n Rosamund Pike in 2005’s Doom Pike even said that she worried at the time that the film failed in part “because I wasn’t hot enough.”<\/p>\n “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.”<\/p>\n
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