Rosamund Pike Says Dwayne Johnson Film Doom Is Among ‘The Worst Movies Ever’

Rosamund Pike got very honest about the making of Doom while reflecting on the early years of her career in a recent interview.

Last month, the Oscar nominee made an appearance on Elizabeth Day’s podcast How To Fail, where she was asked about some of the action movies she took part in early on in her screen career.

“It started well with James Bond,” she began, referring to her “promising start” in the movie Die Another Day, but admitted that things soon took a downward turn.

She recalled: “When I was making Pride & Prejudice, and I was having great fun in my cornfields, in my bonnet, I got a call to be in an action franchise.

“They were making a cinema version of the video game Doom, and I think in my bonnet, in my field of hay bales, [I thought] ‘yeah, I can do anything, I can jump on this hay bale in my crinoline, so I can certainly go and kill some zombies on Mars’.”

Rosamund pointed out that, initially, the film would have seen Ray Winstone in the lead role, who was subsequently replaced by Dwayne Johnson, who was still being credited as “The Rock” at this time in his own acting career.

“Suddenly I’m in this film with The Rock and I realise how utterly ill-equipped I am to be an action star,” she claimed.

“I was just out of my comfort zone, out of my league, out of my depth and the film was an absolute bomb,” Rosamund continued. “I probably could have ended my career. I mean, it was just probably one of the worst films ever made. It was a catastrophe, I think.

“As I say, I don’t read the reviews, but you get the sense like you are lucky to have survived that one. But then, it wasn’t career-ending for The Rock. Or me, as it turned out.”

However, Rosamund did come away from the project having learned an important lesson about doing her research before accepting roles.

“I didn’t know enough about video games,” she conceded. “I wasn’t the right girl to be in that.”

As Rosamund suggested, Doom was slammed by critics upon its release in 2005, currently holding a critical score of just 18% on the reviews site Rotten Tomatoes.

Doom was rebooted in 2019 with a new cast, although the movie ended up being released direct-to-video.