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Headline: UNCAPTIONED: Rosamund Pike feared she had ME after playing 'troubled' characters back-to-back
Caption: Rosamund Pike feared she had ME after playing 'troubled' characters back-to-back. The Gone Girl star's body shut down "in quite a scary way" after she put it through the back-to-back traumatic experiences of playing war correspondent Marie Colvin in 2018's A Private War and pioneering physicist and chemist Marie Curie in 2019's Radioactive. She shared on David Tennant Does A Podcast With: ”I played a war correspondent for The Sunday Times called Marie Colvin and I played Marie Curie, both of who were amazing, strong, clever forces of nature but also quite troubled.” “I made the mistake of playing them back to back and that left me a bit troubled.” "Actually, my whole system shut down in quite a scary way. Which can happened because the body just thinks I can't take any more of whatever the chemical cocktail you're asking it to produce. You trick it with trauma.” The actress admitted the filming experiences left her so exhausted that she was worried she had myalgic encephalomyelitis, which is also called chronic fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS. ”It shut down and I thought, 'Oh my God, I've got ME or something.' I thought something is really (wrong). I'm never going to get my vitality back. And I did.” Pike explained that she signed up to play Moiraine Damodred in the fantasy TV show The Wheel of Time partly as a result of her experience. ”Fantasy seemed like a nice invitation (after that), to step somewhere the opposite of reality.” The third season of The Wheel of Time premiered on Prime Video last month. Instructions: THIS VIDEO MUST NOT BE EDITED FOR LENGTH TO COMBINE WITH OTHER CONTENT
Keywords: Rosamund Pike,A Private War,Marie Colvin,Radioactive,Marie Curie,David Tennant Does A Podcast With...,Myalgic Encephalomyelitis,Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,The Wheel of Time
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