Actor Rosamund Pike efficiently constructed up her profession with movies like Die One other Day and others. However there was one movie she did throughout her rise to the cease that she may solely describe as chaos.
Rosamund Pike referred to as working on ‘Wrath of the Titans’ Chaos
Pike starred in the 2012 feature Wrath of the Titans. The film was a sequel to 2010’s Conflict of the Titans, which starred Avatar actor Sam Worthington. Worthington would reprise his position for the second movie and discover himself working alongside Pike for the first time. The story was an enormous funds motion fantasy thriller that Pike was glad to be an element of. However at instances, she confided that the scale of the film might be a bit overwhelming.
“You’d have these immense sets and the CGI green screen elements, but a lot of it was built as well, which is much better for the imagination. We’re in the Underworld and it was like walking into chaos,” she as soon as instructed Digital Spy.
However for Pike, the particular results and the stunts additionally made Wrath of the Titans enjoyable.
“We’d have huge wind machines, rivers of fire, columns of fire being dropped 20 feet down, boulders being thrown at us made of polystyrene. We’d have to run through all this mess and it was like being in a maelstrom. It’s exciting, it’s a kind of crazy chaos,” she mentioned.
Rosamund Pike turned down ‘Man of Steel’ for ‘Wrath of the Titans’
Pike rejected one other blockbuster movie to star in Wrath of the Titans. Chatting with Collider, Pike revealed that she was in consideration for an undisclosed position in Zack Snyder’s Man of Metal. However she ended up focusing extra on Wrath of the Titans.
“I think I was very interested in the way that the director was approaching Wrath of the Titans,” Pike mentioned. “He was a South African guy called Jonathan Liebesman and he just had this sort of documentary approach to this big world and I thought he’d teach me stuff. You know, sometimes you pick roles based on what you think you can learn from them, and I thought there were things that I would learn from that, which I did, whether or not anyone knew about it. He taught me an awful lot about action, actually.”
What she picked up on Wrath of the Titans, Pike felt, may’ve been utilized to different future movies later down the line.
“It was a great part, Andromeda. And all of these things, you never know when they’re gonna come back. And even just kind of imagining things, how to sell stuff that’s not in front of you, all of these skills that you don’t realize as a young actor you’re gonna need; how to believe something terrifying is right in front of you if you can’t see it and all that stuff that has to become a skill,” she mentioned.
Rosamund Pike did intensive analysis for ‘Wrath of the Titans’ scenes that had been lower from the featured
Pike performed the warrior-queen Andromedas in the movie. Given the nature of the character, the Gone Woman star thought she’d profit from learning the real-life wars and generals of the previous. She utilized her research into her appearing, solely to seek out that almost all of these scenes weren’t utilized in the movie.
“There were scenes that were cut. I was very interested in what made a great general for instance, and I had researched all these war films and read books about great generals in the second World War and sort of wanted to be this person who could go from declamatory rousing battlefield speeches to individually speaking to the men as individuals … and I did all that and it’s not in the movie because we had to get to the monsters quicker,” she mentioned.