Rosamund Pike Once Joked That She Was With Batman During Her and Ben Affleck’s ‘Gone Girl’ Shower Scene
Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike famously collaborated for the 2014 feature Gone Girl, playing a tumultuous and destructive couple. While filming, Affleck was also preparing for his other role as Batman in Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. For Pike, the results definitely showed.
Rosamund Pike on filming her ‘Gone Girl’ shower scenes with Ben Affleck
Many scenes in David Fincher’s mystery thriller would become iconic. One of the most talked-about moments in the movie involved Pike and her co-star Affleck in the shower together. Affleck showed more skin than his onscreen love interest in the picture, a take the filmmaker knew was coming. Fincher warned Affleck about the scene beforehand.
“It’s ironic because David said to me from the beginning, this is a warts and all movie. It can have no vanity,” Affleck once told MTV News (via Yahoo). “You have to see the naked underbelly of this character,” Affleck explained. “It’s gotta be like in Europe, they just don’t give a s*** about any of that stuff, and they just play real people, you know? And so that was the spirit of the thing.”
But thanks to his training for Batman v Superman, Affleck was already close to superhero shape when he stepped into the shower with Pike — something Pike couldn’t help but comment on.
“Ben was becoming Batman before my eyes — by the time we were in the shower, I was with Batman,” Pike said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Affleck’s transforming body was a bit of a dilemma for the actor. His character, Nick Dunne, couldn’t have been anymore different than the caped crusader. Affleck felt it could be a bit out of place for his Gone Girl role to have his Batman physique.
“I was trying to juggle this thing because that character’s supposed to be out of shape and hungover and puffy, and looking like he just woke up. But I had to train ahead of time for [Batman v Superman] for about a year, so I was trying to sort of build the underneath without looking like…because that wouldn’t have been right. To have some guy who’s in great shape playing … all Nick Dunne does is eat junk food and drink bourbon,” Affleck once told Lorraine.
Rosamund Pike thought the love scenes in ‘Gone Girl’ were easier than the dialogue
A few actors find doing love scenes the most daunting part of any film. Pike, who was intimate with both Affleck and Neil Patrick Harris in the movie, embraced the romance. She considered it a nice change of pace from how taxing the movie typically was.
“It was good to have some romantic scenes in there, come on,” Pike once said, according to HuffPost. “In some ways, those are far less difficult than the dialogue scenes… because Fincher’s intense scrutiny of language and intense scrutiny of what people do to each other with how they speak… it really turns your brain into a knotted mass at the end of it.”
She also confided that there was a lot of planning and technique involved to make her love scenes in the movie appear believable.
“In order to make something look wild and abandoned and free, it has to be technically quite precise,” she added. “It’s not a sex scene like you’ve ever seen before — it’s pretty corrupt, pretty shocking, the kind of thing my grandmother would probably avert her eyes from. But the experience of doing it is actually pretty funny, you think, ‘Can we go this far? Can we do this? Would that be too naughty?’”
