Rosamund Pike has branded her 2005 sci-fi film Doom “one of the worst films ever made”. Based on the popular video game series developed by id Software, Doom stars Pike opposite Dwayne Johnson and Karl Urban as a group of space marines.
After the group, known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, is sent on a rescue mission to a facility on Mars, they encounter some genetically enhanced killing machines.
Appearing on Tuesday’s episode of the podcast How to Fail With Elizabeth Day, Pike opened up about the Andrzej Bartkowiak-directed film, saying she feared it could end her career.
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“When I was making Pride and Prejudice, and I was having great fun in my cornfields in my bonnet, I get a call to be in an action franchise,” Pike explained.
She continued: “They’re making a cinema version, a narrative version of the video game Doom. And I think in my bonnet, in my field of hay bales, ‘Yeah, I can do anything. I can jump on this hay bale in my crinoline, so I can certainly go and kill some zombies on Mars.'”
According to Pike, the film initially starred Ray Winstone, but the actor was replaced by Johnson “for some reason”.
She said: “So suddenly I’m in this film with The Rock, and I realise how utterly ill-equipped I am to be an action star.”
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Pike explained that Johnson had a “team of macho guys around him”, saying: “There were weights on the set. Every time a gun was brought out, it was kind of like a holy relic for the Doom fans… I was just out of my comfort zone, out of my league, out of my depth.”
Following its release, Doom struggled at the box office and was panned by critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an abysmal score of 18% from 133 reviews.
Speaking about the film’s reception, Pike said: “The film was an absolute bomb. I mean, I probably could have ended my career. It was just probably one of the worst films ever made. I mean, it was a catastrophe. You get the sense like you’re lucky to have survived that one.”
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