Exclusive: Rosamund Pike On Her Juicy Starring Role In Dark Comedy ‘I Care A Lot’
Now playing on Netflix is the crime drama thriller I Care A Lot, directed by J. Blakeson and starring Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Eiza González, Chris Messina, Macon Blair, Alicia Witt, Damian Young, with Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Dianne Wiest.
Poised with sharklike self-assurance, Marla Grayson (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes and cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It’s a well-oiled racket that Marla and her business-partner and lover Fran (Eiza González) use with brutal efficiency on their latest “cherry,” Jennifer Peterson (two-time Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest) — a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to have an equally shady secret of her own and connections to a volatile gangster (Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage), Marla is forced to level up in a game only predators can play — one that’s neither fair, nor square.
For Pike, who has played many roles in films such as Die Another Day, Pride & Prejudice, Doom, An Education, Wrath of the Titans, Jack Reacher, A United Kingdom, and Gone Girl, which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, the role in I Care A Lot in similar to the latter. She’s devilish and yet likeable depending on one’s taste. Her Marla character is either someone you’re rooting for or betting against.
Pike was nominated for her third Golden Globe Award for her critically acclaimed role as Marla Grayson.
In speaking with BlackFilmandTV.com’s Wilson Morales, Pike goes over her character and what makes Marla tick.
