Rosamund Pike recounts scary mugging incident: 'Pretty horrible'
Rosamund Pike recounts scary mugging incident: 'Pretty horrible'
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Rosamund Pike stars in the new Netflix film "I Care a Lot," alongside Peter Dinklage and Eiza González.
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Rosamund Pike is looking back on her scary experience of being mugged, which may have been even more frightening for her mom.
The "Gone Girl" star, 46, shared in an interview on "Magic Radio" that she was once attacked and had her phone stolen while she was walking down the street on a call with her mom.
"I was on the phone to my mother on a mobile phone walking on the road, and I was mugged," Pike recounted. "The phone was snatched, so all she heard was me scream or yelp, and a thud, and the phone went dead."
The actress said she was on the way to meet up with friends at the time. After the mugging, Pike recalled that she walked to a pub, met her friends and called her mom back. But she noted that this must have been an excruciating period of time for her mother while she was waiting to hear from her.
"For her, it was probably a pretty horrible 15 minutes," Pike said.
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A representative for Pike confirmed to USA TODAY that the incident occurred in 2006.
Pike shared the story on "Magic Radio" after she was asked if she ever caused her parents anxiety growing up. She and co-star Matthew Rhys were discussing their latest film "Hallow Road," a thriller in which parents receive a call from their teenage daughter saying that she has hit someone with her car.
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After Pike shared her mugging story and discussed the distress it caused her mother, Rhys said this is "kind of what the film's about." On a lighter note, the "Americans" actor said he "did a good job of never letting" his parents "know the kind of peril I was in" growing up.
Pike is known for her roles in films like the 2014 thriller "Gone Girl," for which she earned a best actress Oscar nomination, and the James Bond movie "Die Another Day." She recently starred in the Amazon Prime Video fantasy series "The Wheel of Time," which according to Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter has been canceled after three seasons.
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