Rosamund Pike punched by mugger
The 'Gone Girl' star was targeted by a thief on a bicycle during a "horrible" incident in London back in 2006 revealing the mugger hit her in the face and made off with her device. She had been talking to her mother on the phone at the time and Rosamund admits it was terrifying for them both.
During an appearance on Magic Radio, she explained: "I was on the phone to my mother – on a mobile phone walking along a road – and I was mugged.
"The phone was snatched so all she heard was me scream and a thud and the phone went dead."
Rosamund walked to a nearby pub where she was meeting friends and she was able to call her mother to tell her she was alright.
She added: "I just walked to the pub and called her there when I met my friends. For her, it was probably a pretty horrible 15 minutes."
The actress explained the mugger was "some kid on a bicycle" who had smacked her in the face, adding: "[They] punched me down the side of my cheek and snatched my phone out of my hand."
It comes after Rosamund opened up about being was asked to strip to her underwear during her 'James Bond' audition.
The Hollywood actress - who played Miranda Frost opposite Pierce Brosnan in 2002 movie 'Die Another Day' - insisted while she had no issue with steamy scenes in the movie, she wasn't willing to do so before she'd landed the role.
She told Harper's Bazaar UK magazine: "In the Bond audition, I was asked to unzip and drop the dress I was wearing, to just stand there in underwear. "And I thought, 'Well, no, I'll be doing that if I get the part. I won't be doing that now'."
She recalled refusing the request, and added: 'I don't know what possessed me."
The following year, Rosamund was cast in a production of 'Hitchcock Blonde', which required her to walk across the stage in the nude.
She said: "There was a moment of, 'F***, they've given me this absolute stellar part, but it involves nudity.' "I was taken for a very considerate, you might say, lunch by the director to say, 'Are you aware of this?' '
She insisted the meeting wasn't necessary as the director "knew exactly what was on the table, which was a brilliant role in a fantastic new play".
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