Rosamund Pike feels "very far away" from the UK.
Rosamund Pike
The 42-year-old actress - who has Solo, eight, and six-year-old Atom with partner Robie Uniacke - is currently living in Prague indefinitely while she's working in the city and she's admitted that since the UK recently left the European Union (EU), she feels even further away from home than she did.
Asked if she lives in Prague now, she said: "It would seem so. I’m working here so we decided instead of the constant back and forth we would all up sticks and move here. It seems even further away now Brexit has happened. We feel like we are in a very different country and it feels very far away suddenly.”
Rosamund is aware she needs to make strides in mastering the local language, but she's been too busy getting to grips with Mandarin via lessons from her kids.
She told talk show host Graham Norton: “I’ve been trying. My kids speak Mandarin, so they have been home-schooling me. I should really be learning Czech and I am aware of the irony of living in the Czech Republic and learning Mandarin!”
The actress can next be seen in comedy thriller 'I Care a Lot' and she admitted she went through two of the "most intense" days of shooting she's ever experienced when filming an underwater scene.
She said: “There is an amazing underwater sequence, and they teach you in a very relaxed way and you think, ‘This is great, I can do this,’ and you’ve just got comfortable with the idea when they say, ‘We are not going to do any of that. We are going to take away your mask and your oxygen, we’re going to suspend the car in water and you’re going to struggle to get out.’
"I had the two most intense filming days of my life. As you are acting the panic, your sympathetic nervous system starts to react, and you get more and more adrenalised – it’s was exhilarating but also quite terrifying...
"About halfway through the afternoon I was allowed to come to the surface and because we were in England, across the tank came this inflatable tray with mugs of tea and digestive biscuits. It was the most welcome sight!”
Watch the full interview with Rosamund on 'The Graham Norton Show' on BBC One on Friday (19.02.21) night.
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