Rosamund Pike opens up about the end of David Fincher’s Gone Girl

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

It goes without saying that if you have NOT seen GONE GIRL yet, well, you need to rectify that immediately. Our own JimmyO gave the flick at 9/10 (check out his review here) and I wholeheartedly agree with it. Secondly, the rest of this article contains some MASSIVE SPOILERS for those of you who haven't seen the movie. A great deal of the fun is watching this film unravel, so I would suggest looking elsewhere if you're not familiar with the plot details. If you have have seen the flick, read on! Rosamund Pike gave a hell of a performance in GONE GIRL (to say the least) and the titular gone girl had some thoughts on the more spoilery scenes she had to shoot.

In regards to filming the bloody death of Neil Patrick Harris' character:

It covered us. Then we got to a certain point, we froze, and more blood was added. You want it to go in certain places and not others, you mesh it with your body, because you struggle. Some of it gets painful, as it dries, your skin stick to each other and it’s like super glue. There were so many people trying to come up with the perfect version of film blood. Different shades, different consistencies. It has squirt in the right way, it has to spread in the right way, it has to seep into fabric in the right way. If it’s too sticky, it’ll make lines like syrup, which is no good. I spent so much time covered in blood in the film. And you have to reset it and wipe it off.

Regarding one of the last scenes where Amy reunites with Affleck's Nick Dunne:

Ben, David [Fincher] and I rewrote that scene. He says, ‘You’re such a c*nt.’ I say, ‘I’m the c*nt that makes you the man you are today–the only time you ever feel like yourself.’ That’s Amy’s confidence. She’s right–she knows that gets him. And that’s the toxicity of their relationships right there. It’s a pretty damning message.

If she would ever participate in a sequel:

No, no, no. Only if Gillian [Flynn] wrote it. I don’t like the idea of someone coming in and saying I could get my hand on these characters. The filmmakers don’t even want people to know Amy is even alive at the end. People have been good about [that].

I make it a point to see any David Fincher film in theaters and GONE GIRL did not disappoint in the slightest. It was easily some of the most deliciously dark fun I've had in cinemas in some time, and a big part of that has to do with the performance of Ms. Rosamund Pike. She knocks it out of the ballpark, folks. Her role is worth the price of admission alone.  If that's not enough, well, there's always Ben Affleck's penis.

GONE GIRL is now in theaters!