{"id":2349398,"date":"2026-03-28T18:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2349398"},"modified":"2026-03-28T18:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:09:12","slug":"rosamund-pike-admits-she-made-one-of-the-worst-films-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rosamund-pike-admits-she-made-one-of-the-worst-films-ever-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosamund Pike Admits She Made ‘One of the Worst Films Ever Made’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rosamund Pike recently did what many actors won\u2019t: she named the worst movie she\u2019s ever made.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the 47-year-old actor appeared on the aptly named How to Fail with Elizabeth Day<\/a> podcast to reflect on her 2005 action film Doom. The movie, an adaptation of the popular 90s video game, saw Pike star alongside Dwayne Johnson just three years after her breakout role in the James Bond film Die Another Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a promising start\u2026 I was picked to be in the biggest action franchise of all time,\u201d the Gone Girl star told host Elizabeth Day of her fledgling career. \u201cSo when I was making\u00a0Pride & Prejudice, and I was having great fun in my cornfields in my bonnet, I get a call to be in an action franchise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were making a cinema version, a narrative version of the video game\u00a0Doom. 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,\u2019\u00a0\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Rosamund Pike Reveals How a Major Cast Shakeup Made Her Realize She was \u2018Utterly Ill-Equipped\u2019<\/h2>\n

Pike revealed that the film was initially supposed to star Sexy Beast actor Ray Winstone. However, in a classic Hollywood switcheroo, Johnson, now 53, ended up taking the lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo suddenly I\u2019m in this film with The Rock, and I realize how utterly ill-equipped I am to be an action star,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Johnson] had a team of like macho guys around him, \u201cPike continued. \u201cThere 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\u00a0Doom\u00a0fans\u2026 I was just out of my comfort zone, out of my league, out of my depth, and the film was an absolute bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"rosamund-pike-admits-she-made-one-of-the-worst-films-ever-made\"Rosamund Pike in November 2025. (Photo by Noam Galai\/WireImage)<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, I probably could have ended my career,\u201d she reasoned. \u201cIt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doom was a critical and commercial failure, earning negative reviews from critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> and performing poorly at the box office. However, as Pike noted, neither her career nor Johnson\u2019s suffered in the long term.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was probably after that that I decided to do my research [for acting roles],\u201d Pike admitted. \u201cI didn\u2019t know enough about video games. I wasn\u2019t the right kind of girl to be in that; I didn\u2019t want to be the kind of sex symbol. So it\u2019s 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\u2019t that person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rosamund Pike Speculates on Why \u2018Doom\u2019 Flopped Hard <\/h2>\n

As for why the film flopped so spectacularly, Pike had her own theory, worrying at the time it was in part \u201cbecause I wasn\u2019t hot enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf loads of guys say \u2018That film is s\u2014\u2019 your part of it is obviously to play your character but also kind of look hot,\u201d she speculated. \u201cI don\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody helped me, nobody said \u2014 nowadays, I\u2019m sure an actress cast in that would have a personal trainer, would have a sort of \u2014 there would be a conversation about, \u2018You\u2019re playing Lara Croft, this is how she should look,\u2019 \u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Nearly two decades after her not-so-successful turn as an action hero in Doom, host Elizabeth Day asked Pike if she\u2019d ever give the genre another shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, but if I\u2019m going to be one, I want to bloody succeed at it,\u201d Pike shot back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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