A role of a lifetime. Since the 2014 release of Gone Girl, Ben Affleck and Emily Ratajkowski are just some of the cast members who have continued to find success.
The movie adaption of Gillian Flynn‘s 2012 novel explored Nick Dunne as he finds himself the prime suspect in his wife Amy Dunne’s disappearance. Although the audience is privy to the truth when it comes to Amy’s decision to run away, the film provided several shocking twists and turns that earned it nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award and more.
Rosamund Pike, who took on the complicated lead female role, opened up about the collaborative process that came with working on Gone Girl.
“We could have really great conversations on set and talk for hours. And then another day, we would barely speak a word,” Pike explained in an interview with Glamour about working alongside her onscreen husband Affleck. “It’s funny. Ben and I would have these scenes that were very giggly and sort of romantic. And then we’d go to this very dark place. I tried to get us out of that.”
Meanwhile, the Devil You Know star found that sharing the screen with Neil Patrick Harris, who played Desi Collings, offered different results.
“We were in hysterics on the sound stage. It was very funny doing [rehearsals for our sex] scene,” she shared at the time. [Director] David [Fincher] left Neil and me alone on that set for like two hours to make sure we could do it.”
Pike noted that the offer to play Amy couldn’t have come at a better time.
“I think I’ve had some big, pretty challenging roles on stage in the U.K. that stretched me a lot as an actress. So, I have been ready. But I don’t think I would have taken on this role with any sort of success if it hadn’t been for Fincher,” she detailed to Indiewire in October 2014. “He’s a great navigator. It’s very nerve-wracking. You’re trying to slide down this razor of all these different — you don’t want to go into anything that’s camp, anything that’s unconvincing.”
She added: “There can’t be anything superficial about it and yet it’s extreme. Brilliantly extreme. It’s fun but it’s daunting. There is that feeling. You read that character in the book and you think, how would one embark on this, because in the book obviously you’ve got an internal monologue. You can get inside her head all the time.”
Affleck, for his part, explained that it was “liberating” getting to play Nick because of how uncertain the narrative was about him.
“Usually when you play a protagonist and you’re a lead in the movie there are sort of some unspoken rules. You know, you have to be a good person, you have to be a leader, you have to be smarter than everyone in the room,” he told NPR in 2014. “And in this case, we weren’t encumbered by that at all. The whole idea of likability was sort of thrown out of the window. And I thought that was really exciting and liberating as an actor because you didn’t know where this guy was gonna go.”
Scroll down to see what the stars of Gone Girl have been doing since the movie premiered:
The Golden Globe nominee went on to star in The Accountant, Justice League, Triple Frontier, The Last Thing He Wanted and The Tender Bar. Following his split from ex-wife Jennifer Garner, Affleck was linked to Lindsay Shookus and Deep Water costar Ana De Armas. In 2021, the Daredevil star rekindled his romance with ex-fiancée Jennifer Lopez after her split from Alex Rodriguez. After getting engaged in April 2022, Affleck and Lopez exchanged vows three months later. Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox/Regency/Kobal/Shutterstock; Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock
Since taking on the role of Amy, Pike appeared in Return to Sender, Hostiles, A Private War and I Care a Lot. The England native also won an Emmy for her role in State of the Union in 2019 and she currently stars as Moiraine in Amazon Prime's The Wheel of Time. She has been in a relationship with Robie Uniacke since 2009. Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox/Regency/Kobal/Shutterstock; David Fisher/Shutterstock
The How I Met Your Mother alum joined Broadway in 2014 in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. That same year, Harris wed longtime partner David Burtka, with whom he shares son Gideon and daughter Harper. The twins were born in October 2010. The New Mexico native starred in The Matrix Resurrections, A Series of Unfortunate Event and American Horror Story: Freak Show. He has also continued to host the Tony Awards over the years. Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox/Regency/Kobal/Shutterstock; Christopher Victorio/imageSPACE/Shutterstock
The producer continued to appear on screen in projects including Vice, Those Who Wish Me Dead and Don't Look Up. Off screen, Perry has directed Boo 2! A Madea Halloween, A Madea Family Funeral, A Fall From Grace and A Jazzman's Blues. Six years after welcoming a son with Gelila Bekele, Perry confirmed that he was single in 2020. Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox/Regency/Kobal/Shutterstock; Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
Since playing Nick's twin sister, Coon appeared in The Post, Fargo, Widows, Avengers: Infinity War and The Nest. After getting married to Tracy Letts in 2013, the duo welcomed a son in 2019 and a second child in 2021. Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox/Regency/Kobal/Shutterstock; Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
Dickens went on to star in House of Cards, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Lizzie and Land. The actress made headlines when her character, Madison Clark, was written off Fear the Walking Dead in 2018 after three years. Dickens returned to the role in 2022. Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox/Regency/Kobal/Shutterstock; AFF-USA/Shutterstock
Following her feature film debut in Gone Girl, Ratajkowski went on to appear in Entourage, We Are Your Friends, I Feel Pretty and The Spoils Before Dying. The model married Sebastian Bear-McClard in February 2019 and they welcomed their son, Sylvester, one year later. In July 2022, Us Weekly confirmed that the duo had split amid cheating allegations. Ratajkowski published a book of personal essays titled My Body in November 2021. Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox/Regency/Kobal/Shutterstock; Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
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