- - Rosamund Pike Reveals ‘Kindest’ Way Tom Cruise Supported Her When She Felt She ‘Wasn’t Up to’ “Gone Girl” Role

Jack SmartNovember 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM

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Rosamund Pike appeared on The Graham Norton Show alongside Glen Powell, Michelle Yeoh, Jack Whitehall and Ed Sheeran

The Now You See Me: Now You Don’t star recalled a time Tom Cruise offered much-needed words of encouragement

Pike admitted she was “terrified” and “couldn’t sleep” the night before filming 2014 thriller Gone Girl, prompting her to reach out to her former Jack Reacher costar

Rosamund Pike has Tom Cruise in her corner.

The British actress, 46, appeared on the Friday, Nov. 7 episode of The Graham Norton Show, where she recalled needing encouragement back in 2013 for Gone Girl, released the following year.

“The night before I started filming Gone Girl, I was so frightened, and I couldn’t sleep,” Pike shared when Cruise, 63, came up in conversation with fellow guests Glen Powell, Michelle Yeoh, Jack Whitehall and Ed Sheeran.

“So at four in the morning I wrote to Tom saying I wasn’t up to the role and I was terrified,” continued Pike, who costarred with Cruise, 63, in the 2012 action flick Jack Reacher. “And he sent me the kindest letter immediately saying, ‘You’ve got this and you are ready.’ ”

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Rosamund Pike on 'The Graham Norton Show'

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Pike played Amy Elliott Dunne opposite Ben Affleck’s Nick in director David Fincher's film adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s 2012 novel about a wife who mysteriously disappears. She may have been nervous before it began filming, but her lead performance in the hit film ended up making her a first-time Academy Award nominee, earning many other accolades as well. Reese Witherspoon was one of the film's producers.

Cruise’s warm words meant a lot to the Die Another Day actress at the time.

“It was such a significant gesture from someone with such a level of fame," she explained.

Pike next stars in Now You See Me: Now You Don’t in, as she told Norton and his guests, an antagonistic role.

“It is a gorgeous movie, and I relish being a villain,” she admitted. “I tried to meet people in the arms trade and those that fund wars so I could do my research but all those I managed to find seemed reasonable and not nefarious at all!”

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Rosamund Pike in 'Gone Girl'

Following the cancellation of The Wheel of Time after three seasons, Pike has the comedy Ladies First among her upcoming projects. Now You See Me: Now You Don’t hits theaters on Nov. 14.

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