Hi there, I'm Rosamund Pike.
I play Marla Grayson, and I want to take you through
a scene from our film, I Care a Lot, shot by shot.
Get rid of her.
Make sure it looks organic.
In this scene, you are watching
the demise of a very put-together woman.
You know, she, having been the predator, is now the prey.
Marla has, at this point, been chloroformed
and she's also been filled with vodka.
I really relish this sequence because it's wordless
and I love exploring the physical dimension
of Marla's need to win.
Georgia Lyman, who plays Catwoman
and Kevin McCormick who's the other heavy in the scene,
they had, sort of man-handled me into the car.
And it's very important, I think,
when you're playing "out of it"
that you give them a dead weight to deal with.
Although you're also trying to make yourself
as sort of pliable as possible.
Because it's not actually very easy
to do everything that they need to do,
which was, jam my foot on the accelerator.
They had to jam the bottle of the vodka
between my leg and the steering wheel
in order to keep my foot down on the accelerator pedal.
The only bit of this sequence
that I was not present for was when the car rolls
down the hill and crashes through the undergrowth.
I was not in the car at that point.
We did a close-up later of of me kind of coming around
and she's not really sure where she is.
And suddenly she realizes she's in a car.
And it's at that point that she puts on the brake
and is already hurdling over the edge of the cliff.
And then we moved to London, to the water tank
in Pinewood Studios.
We had a day of orientation in the tank.
And you're told exactly how to feel completely at ease
and relaxed underwater.
How to use the oxygen.
How to use the mask.
And then you're taught all that,
you're feeling really comfortable
and then they say, "But we're not gonna do any of that."
And then you have to try and go through
the same motions without any of the things
that you've had to make you feel safe.
And the very first shot was one of the hardest
because I could see the water level coming up past my chest
and it comes up very, very fast.
And then I, took that last gulp of air
and suddenly I was underwater and I couldn't see
and I couldn't breathe and I was scrambling
for the seatbelt.
That was very panic inducing
because it had to happen in real time.
The whole tank is equipped with a sound system.
[Director] Three, two, one.
Turn over!
You can hear the direction coming to you
and each time over the two days that we shot the sequence,
the words, as far as I remember,
that you hear are, "Cameras rolling, mask off, air out..."
And, "Action."
[Director] Action!
I remember that, as time went on,
it was harder and harder, actually,
to let go of the mask and the air because
your body is completely beat.
So we basically shot the car sequence in three sections.
We had getting out of the seat belts,
getting into the back, wrestling with the headrest,
and then holding onto the straps.
Which I've never really found any function for in a car.
I know that they're supposed to be for hanging
your dry cleaning or something,
but I've never really found a function.
But I did, I did in that shot.
To grab onto and kick the rear window out.
That was quite hard, actually,
because it didn't break very easily.
I had a wonderful dive partner called Jess,
who I credit absolutely with my ability
to do this whole sequence myself without a double.
So I would push myself right to the limit
of my air capacity.
Because I knew that as soon as I did this,
Jess would be right there and the oxygen would be in my mouth.
And I could breath again.
For the swim up to the surface,
they needed it to look like I was swimming a long way.
So they tethered me to the bottom of the tank
at Pinewood on a big rock using fishing twine.
And I broke the twine.
My body produced this sort of burst of strength
and energy and I snapped clean off the twine the first go.
So they had to bring out the shark twine,
which I'm quite proud of, I have to say.
We see Marla in true lioness mode fight for her life.
Make her way to the shore of this lake
and let out a primal scream which is both rage
at anyone having tried to do away with her
and also the rage of sheer determination to fight back.
It was certainly the most physically challenging
sequence I've ever shot on film.