Rosamund Pike has revealed that she accidentally ended up waxing Pierce Brosnan’s chest during an intimate scene in Die Another Day.
The 46-year-old actress was just 22 when she was cast opposite the 48-year-old James Bond actor as Bond Girl Miranda Frost.
The star was in her first big-screen debut and filmed her first onscreen sex scene when she seduced 007 and the pair got down and dirty in a swan-shaped bed.
While the scene may have looked incredible, Rosamund revealed on David Tennant’s podcast that the scene was far less erotic in real life and saw her accidentally rip the actor’s hair off his chest.
She explained to David, her former co-star in 2014’s What We Did on Our Holiday: ‘The time when we were doing the love scene, and I discovered things like nipple covers, and all the taping that you have, and we were in the ice palace.’
She described the ornate bed covered in furs, and that she dropped her dress, and the love scene ensued.
‘We had this glinch and then we separate and I look at this body tape and nipple covers, and they are covered in hair and I think “Oh my god I’m waxing Pierce’s chest!”
“I was so mortified. I thought, ‘Oh my God, he’s so brave, and I’m pulling off his chest hair with every embrace.’
Rosamund then realised after ‘a couple of takes’ that ‘it was not him’ but ‘the fake fur of the rugs’ on the bed.
‘I literally thought I was waxing the poor man’s chest!’
While on the podcast, she emphasised that despite the huge age gap between herself and Pierce, he was a complete gentleman and wonderful to work with.
Previously the star revealed that she was asked to strip to her underwear during her Bond audition.
Speaking on Amazon’s Audible Sessions in 2018, the star said: ‘My first audition was for a Bond film and I remember them saying I was to drop my dress and appear in my underwear.
”On the day, I don’t know how I got the resolve and strength of mind, but I just thought “actually sod that, if they’re gonna see me in my underwear, they better give me the job.”
‘So, I thought, “There’s no way I’m going to take off a dress in the audition for this tape to be sent around Los Angeles and to be judged on that.”
In an interview with W Magazine, she confessed that she had ‘never actually seen a James Bond movie’ before appearing in the film.
She also revealed that she turned up to one audition in a borrowed ball gown from her opera singer mother and was confronted to see a lot of the fellow actresses wearing leather.
She said it was confronting to view herself as an ‘object’ for the first time and found it a ‘horrible and fascinating’ time of her life.
Got a story?
If you’ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we’d love to hear from you.