Rosamund Pike on Playing Marie Curie in ‘Radioactive’ and What Draws Her to a Role
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- When you think about what visionary Polish physicist and chemist Marie Curie accomplished during her extraordinary life, it’s impossible not to be impressed. Not only did she (with her husband Pierre) discover the elements Radium and Polonium, coin the term “radioactivity" to describe the emission of uranic rays, and become the first woman to ever win a Nobel Prize and hold a professorship at the Sorbonne, she did it well over a hundred years ago when it was even harder for a woman to enter the field of science. In addition, her work in the field of x-rays led to a second Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911 and helped saved numerous lives during World War I thanks to ambulances with x-ray equipment.
With all the she accomplished, it makes sense that her life has been portrayed on TV and the movies many times. In director Marjane Satrapi’s Radioactive, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Rosamund Pike stars as Curie and the film does a great job highlighting the key moments in her life and showing how hard Marie and Pierre Curie (Sam Riley) had to work to change the face of science forever. Radioactive also stars Aneurin Barnard, Simon Russell Beale, Katherine Parkinson, Sian Brooke, and Anya Taylor-Joy. The screenplay is by Jack Thorne and based on the book by Lauren Redniss.
Earlier this year, before the pandemic struck the planet, I sat down with Rosamund Pike in Paris to talk about the film. She talked about some of the incredible things she learned while preparing for the project, how she keeps playing people named Marie and why she enjoyed playing Marie Curie in Radioactive and Marie Colvin in A Private War, what draws her to playing certain characters, how you couldn’t make a living as a scientist when Curie was doing her research, what Satrapi gave her before filming began that had a big impact, having to play both the older and younger version of Curie on the same day, and more.
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She was absolutely brilliant in A Private War. Really looking forward to seeing her in this.
Maria SKŁODOWSKA - CURIE była geniuszem, w 8 lat 2 Nagrody Nobla z fizyki i chemii. Ta Polka zrewolucjonizowała radioterapię, jej wynalazki służą ludności ❤
She has this beautiful voice that makes Rosamund Pike all the more interesting !
Absolutely beautiful film and her acting is on point.
She is awesome
Nice
Pani Maria nazywała się SKŁODOWSKA - CURIE, była Polką. Pierwiastek POLON nazwała na cześć swojej ojczyzny Polski 🇵🇱
Great performance but poorly written and directed movie that ended up disparaging curie. She was a scientific heavy weight and the drummed up and green chernobyl shots were uncessecary, politicized and blatantly disrespectful of her contributions toward a safe carbon neutral form of power.