Rosamund Pike Says Career-Dooming for Her Role in a Praised 2014 Horror Movie? No, She's Right About the *Doom* Sequel. Wait—actually: Rosamund Pike Calls 'Career-E
Oscar-nominated actress Rosamund Pike recently revealed on the "How to Fail with Elizabeth Day" podcast that her 2014 role in Dwayne Johnson's video game adaptation Doom could have ended her career. Describing the sci-fi action film as a catastrophe and one of the worst ever made, she contrasted this experience by recalling how much fun she had playing Lady Catherine de Bourgh at Pride & Prejudice while wearing bonnets on cornfields to prepare for that role in 2014's Die Another Day.
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1Rosamund Pike describes starring in the 2005 video game adaptation 'Doom' alongside Dwayne Johnson as a career-ending catastrophe.
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2Pike ranks her role in Doom among one of the worst films ever made, contrasting it with other projects like Pride & Prejudice and Die Another Day where she had fun or success.
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Rosamund Pike described her experience starring in Dwayne Johnson and Karl Urban's 2005 adaptation of 'Doom' as a "catastrophe" where she felt ill-equipped for the action role. The film, which replaced Ray Winstone at his request to star alongside Johnson after projects like *The Scorpion King*, earned just under $60 million worldwide and received an Rotten Tomatoes score of 18%.
Rosamund Pike described her 2015 role in *Doom* as one of the worst films ever made and a career catastrophe. Despite realizing she felt ill-equipped for action roles, she noted that surviving such an infamous flop left actors lucky to have their careers intact.