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“Turing was a tragic figure when he deserved to be called a hero. I hope this film will bring greater public awareness not just about the man but also to the incredible contributions he made to the war effort”
surely right to encourage his son. He’s undeniably the man of the moment – if somewhat dogged by his television alter-ego. His ‘Sherlock’ has resonated with fans around the globe, and if distinguishing his ‘real’ self from that of the fictional detective is proving a challenge, perhaps that is something he can discuss with his fellow BAFTA nominee, Rosamund Pike, who has recently experienced what it is like to personify a cult figure. The actress fought off stiff competition to win the coveted role of Gone Girl’s anti-heroine, Amy Dunne. Pike is understandably proud of winning the role over what seemed like every top actress in Hollywood “but it didn’t feel like a competition,” she says. “To the outside world, it was manufactured as [one] but I felt I had a pretty protected line of communication with [director] David Fincher. It was the one time where I felt I knew more than the community at large because he is so secretive about his process. My agent didn’t even know when I flew to St Louis to meet him.” Pike actually found out she’d come up trumps by text “and then I promptly deleted it!” she laughs. “I am a disaster with technology, and I swear, for a moment I thought, ‘is that it? Is the offer gone now? As if that was the entirety of the evidence behind it.” Playing the lead of this bestselling novel was always going to be an awesome feat; Pike had to match up to the complex Amy, who millions of author Gillian Flynn’s fans had already visualised via the bestselling novel on which Above/ Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game
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