Fracture
Fracture is about powerhouse actors Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling going at it in a battle of wits. There is room for Rosamund Pike to play a powerful woman in the young lawyer's life, but even she wouldn't call herself a third point in a triangular sort of relationship.
Rosamund Pike Talks Fracture
"It's totally a two hander, the film," said Pike. "I see it as a power play between the two of them but they're all people who don't play by the rules. It's interesting, in the legal world, you don't sleep with a colleague, do you? And she does on her first night meeting this guy. So you're dealing with sharks, none of whom play safe. But I think the interesting thing is you've got Ryan at the center and you've got all these different people pulling on him, also David Strathairn's character, tugging in a different direction. He's sort of unraveling. It's nice to be a little part of that. I saw the role like that more than as equal to Anthony's character."
As the boss of a new corporate gig that DA Willy Beachum (Gosling) is taking, Pike had her own work filling those shoes. "I find her quite an unappealing character first of all which is never very good because you've got to love someone. You've got to like someone anyway. I didn't find that much to respect about Nikki just because she's someone who has such different values from me and prioritizes career ferociously against family. She's not really easy with intimacy at all. But I met some lawyers before we started, some female attorneys out in LA before we started filming and they're really impressive kind of high flying women. I was sort of fumbling around for things to say and ask them."
Ultimately, she found a simple question that gave her the key to her character. "I said, 'How do you feel, morally, if you're defending someone you suspect is guilty and you get a verdict of innocent?' And she just looked at me and she said, 'Well, the prosecution didn't do their job well enough.' And I thought, 'Right, that's the mindset. That's it.' It was steely and kind of brilliant really. That's what you've got to do. You can't get personally involved. I thought that's what this woman is. She doesn't get personally involved and I think what you see from her relationship with Ryan is about as personally involved as she ever gets with anybody."
Though she is Willy's love interest, their relationship does not follow the typical Hollywood path. "There was a much longer, extended kind of look at their sexual relationship but it was too distracting for the movie in the end. Which is good. We tried to make something interesting because I think both Ryan and I thought, 'Oh God, here we go, the obligatory love scene' and how to make it unexpected and I think we made it too unexpected."
Fracture opens to theatres tomorrow, April 20th.
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