Breaking through with a supporting Bond girl turn in “Die Another Day” nearly twenty years ago, actress Rosamund Pike has done her share of hits, misses and everything in between since then.
Out doing promotional rounds this week for Amazon’s big-budget fantasy series “The Wheel of Time” which she leads, the actress looked back on one of those ‘misses’ from early in her screen career – 2005’s poorly received film adaptation of iconic video game “Doom”.
Speaking with Collider, Pike surprisingly reveals that she herself feels partly to blame for the film’s failure despite being only a supporting player (alongside Dwayne Johnson and Karl Urban) in the movie:
“I feel partly to blame in that respect because I think I failed just through ignorance and innocence to understand, to fully get a picture of what Doom meant to fans at that point.
I wasn’t a gamer. I didn’t understand. If I knew what I knew now, I would have dived right into all of that and got fully immersed in it like I do now. And I just didn’t understand.
I feel embarrassed, really. I feel embarrassed that I was sort of ignorant of what it meant and I didn’t know how to go about finding out because the internet wasn’t the place it is now for the fans to speak up. I wouldn’t have known where to find them.
I do now! In fact, I now have many friends who were massive fans of the game and I just wish I had known them then.”
Grossing $58 million off a $60 million budget, the film had multiple production issues, time crunches, and was creatively not even remotely like the game aside from one well-regarded first-person sequence created by visual effects supervisor Jon Farhat.
Reviews were dire with just an 18% positive reaction on Rotten Tomatoes. A direct-to-video reboot titled “Doom: Annihilation” was released in 2019.
Meanwhile, Pike can be seen in “The Wheel of Time” on November 19th on Amazon Prime.
