Rosamund Pike on Aging and Miniskirts

What was it like to watch yourself age? No, I mean, not to be glib about it, it was a real challenge and very, very interesting. I mean, there was the sort of days when I, you know, there might be a kind of cute guy on set. I smile and he's like, yeah, whatever. And I realize I look in the mirror and I'm like, you know, I'm not, you know, 29 anymore, I'm 57. Are you saying that a 57-year-old version of you couldn't get a cute guy on set? Yeah, I'm afraid that's true. I did experience what, you know, even though I said, but look, I've still got my legs, you know. No, but, you know, I did experience the thing that women talk about, which is the fact of suddenly becoming invisible. So it does make you feel sort of less than, what's the word, less than kind of, what's the word? See, this is what happens when you do too much talking. Less than charitable, I should say, towards men. It did give me a kind of low-level anger all the time that definitely I would attract more looks. Well, if it makes you feel any better, 50-year-old men who aren't in Hollywood feel the same way. They feel like no one pays attention to them. But the idea of aging, I wonder if it changed the way you did approach your current day. After experiencing that, do you look at your current... Absolutely, get the skirts as short as possible. No, but it was, I mean, it's a wonderful thing actually to get to do as an actor because, you know, you go into this business because you want to share with other human beings the experience of being human. And usually you only get, you know, you hope to, that women of your own age will particularly relate to you. But, you know, with this I'm hoping that, you know, women from 30 to 60 will relate to this story and relate to this woman. And that is a tremendous honour, I can tell you.