Rosamund Pike: I do think separation is key to a relationship
I’m still trying to make Rosamund Pike happen in a bigger way. I’m going to write about her until everyone agrees with me!!! As I said on Monday, I think Rosamund deserves some awards-season attention for Gone Girl. She was fantastic. My only complaint was that she needed more screen time – it’s Amy’s story, not Nick’s story. I kind of wish the press around the film’s success was “wow, Rosamund Pike is a fantastic actress” and not “Ben Affleck isn’t so bad after all.”
Part of the problem with the disparity in media coverage might be that Affleck has always been tabloid friendly – he’s always been good for a headline, a scandal, a controversy of some kind. Rosamund is not. Rosamund seems well-adjusted, she’s rarely in the UK tabloids (which is a remarkable feat) and she seems to have a quiet family life with her partner Robie Uniacke. They’ve been together for years. She’s 35 and he’s 53. He’s an ex-heroin addict and they’re expecting their second child together. That’s as scandalous as it gets with Rosamund. In a new interview, Rosamund talked about expectations in relationships and how she doesn’t expect her partner to complete her:
Even though she is not married herself, Miss Pike has revealed forthright views on matrimony during interviews about the movie. The actress, who is expecting her second child with partner Robie Uniacke, said we demand too much of our spouses nowadays, telling Spectrum magazine: ‘People have ridiculous expectations of a mate. In my grandmother’s day, you wouldn’t expect your husband to fulfill the same need in you as your sister, or girlfriends, or colleagues at work. You’d have different needs met by different people.’
‘Now we want all our needs met by one person, and I don’t believe that’s possible. Or rather, it is, but I don’t think it’s universally achievable. I do think separation is key to a relationship. I go out with my partner and we are put next to each other – there’s a feeling of, ‘What, you don’t think we can’t operate without each other?’ I don’t need him as a crutch. Of course, he’s the person I want to go home with but he’s not necessarily the person I want to sit next to. I’d rather meet someone new, and he would too.’
Prepare yourselves, because I’m about to talk about how much I love my alone-time. Seriously, I understand what Rosamund is saying because I’m the same way. I don’t understand those couples who need to be together all the time. Nothing drives me up the wall like someone who is constantly underfoot or someone who can’t be alone or can’t amuse themselves apart from me (or their partner or whatever). Read a book! Talk to someone new! Or, you know, just be alone because being by yourself, alone with your thoughts, is important too. And I agree with her on the whole idea of not needing or wanting one person to be all things – how boring is that?
PS… Here’s something else I like: we don’t have any photos of Rosamund and Robie together. I mean, they’ve been photographed together before, but they’re not the couple that holds hands on the red carpet every time she has something to promote. She just goes off and does her thing and he waits for her at home.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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