Rosamund Pike experienced a traumatic robbery nearly ten years ago.
The “Gone Girl” star, 46, recently appeared on U.K.’s “Magic Radio” and revealed that she was mugged in London in 2006.
“I was on the phone to my mother – on a mobile phone walking along a road – and I was mugged,” Pike recalled. “The phone was snatched so all she heard was me scream and a thud and the phone went dead.”
“And then I just walked to the pub and called her there when I met my friends,” Pike said of her mother. “For her, it was probably a pretty horrible 15 minutes.”
The “Wheel of Time” actress claimed that the mugger was “some kid on a bicycle” who physically assaulted her as she stole her phone.
“[They] punched me down the side of my cheek and snatched my phone out of my hand,” Pike said, adding that she was “angry” in the moment.
Pike appeared on “Magic Radio” with Matthew Rhys to promote their new thriller film “Hallow Road,” in which they play parents who get a distressed phone call from their college-age daughter and have to help her.
Director Babak Anvari told Collider in an interview last week that the film explores a parents’ “worst nightmare.”
Rhys, 50, also spoke to the outlet about working with Pike on the intense project.
“It was probably the improvisational work we did at the beginning. We did some improvisational rehearsals. It wasn’t really a shock; I don’t think you said ‘action,’ but you said you can kind of begin whenever you want, and it’s like a switch with Rosamund, the intensity, the ‘now it’s game time’ switch,” he explained.
“It’s kind of startling. It’s so immediate and so deep. I went, ‘Oh, it’s time to step up.’ There’s no easing our way into this, and I think that’s how she attacks every day and every scene,” said Rhys.
Last year, Pike made headlines when she attended the 2024 Golden Globe Awards in massive headpiece to hide injuries she sustained in a skiing accident.
“I had an accident over Christmas — I had a skiing accident and I had to think, you know, not what you want when you’re coming to the Golden Globes on the seventh of January,” the “Saltburn” actress told Variety on the red carpet.
“So on the 26th of December, my face was entirely smashed up,” she continued. “And I thought I need to protect I need to do something.”
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