Rosamund Pike Tells Story of Making 'Doom' With Dwayne Johnson, Calls It One of the 'Worst Films' Ever Made
Rosamund Pike is calling out her 2005 movie Doom as not just one of the worst movies she’s worked on, but one of the “worst films ever made.”
The Oscar-nominated actress starred opposite Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the video game adaptation. In the movie, Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines.
Rosamund says she got the offer to be in the movie while she was making Pride and Prejudice and she thought she could pull off an action movie.
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On the How to Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast, Rosamund told the whole story.
“When I was making Pride & Prejudice, and I was having great fun in my cornfields in my bonnet, I get a call to be in an action franchise,” she said (via The Independent). “They were making a cinema version, a narrative version of the video game Doom. And I think in my bonnet, in my field of hay bales, ‘Yeah, 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.’”
“So suddenly I’m in this film with The Rock, and I realize how utterly ill-equipped I am to be an action star,” she added. “[There were] macho guys. There were weights on the set. Every time a gun was brought out, it was kind of like a holy relic for the ‘Doom’ fans. I was just out of my comfort zone, out of my league, out of my depth.”
Doom has an 18% on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed just $58 at the worldwide box office.
“It was an absolute bomb. I mean, I probably could have ended my career,” Rosamund said. “It was just probably one of the worst films ever made. I mean, it was a catastrophe. I don’t read the reviews, but you get the sense like you’re lucky to have survived that one.”
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