Rosamund Pike Slams Inter Alia Audience Member For Texting During Show

Rosamund Pike had something to get off her chest after spotting someone texting in the audience of her West End show.

The Oscar nominee is currently appearing in a production of Inter Alia at the National Theatre in London, and at the end of Saturday night’s performance, she took a moment during curtain call to address the audience.

“I just wanted to say, for anyone going to the theatre, it’s a huge thing that we’re trying to give you,” she began (as reported by The Independent). “I am trying to tell you a story, and I’m feeling you, and I hope you’re feeling me too.

She then explained that she’d seen someone in the house texting during an emotional part of the show.

“You know who you are and I’m not going to single you out,” the Saltburn actor continued. “Maybe it was very important, and maybe you’re a doctor, and you’re saving someone’s life, and I hope you are.

“But we do see these [things, and] we do feel them.”

She added: “I’ve got you, I feel like I’ve got to hold you all, so when I feel that and see it, it’s hard.”

One of the most notoriously outspoken figures on the matter is stage icon Patti LuPone, who once went as far as swiping an audience member’s phone after seeing them on it during a performance in 2015.

British performer Gemma Arterton also claimed during an interview on The Graham Norton Show that she did the same, after spotting a patron filming her while she was performing in the West End musical adaptation of Made In Dagenham.

Back in April, Cynthia Erivo was similarly irked at seeing someone on their phone in the crowd during her one-woman show, even briefly stopping the performance around an hour in so the matter could be dealt with.

Phone use during theatrical performances is becoming an increasingly contentious issue.

Meanwhile, just a few weeks ago, Lesley Manville took issue with the current trend that has seen theatres allowing guests to film the curtain call on their phones.

Lesle told Radio 4: “Clap or don’t clap, but don’t just stick your phone in our face. I find it insulting.”