Rosamund Pike Shared The Bizarre Thing She Does With Her Awards – And It Left Fans Totally Stunned

The question came up when Ellen was talking to Pike in March 2021 about her win at the Golden Globe Awards. The chat show host suggested that she’d heard a barely credible rumor, and she was looking for confirmation. To the comedienne’s surprise, the Gone Girl star confessed that she had a bizarre secret.

The two were chatting about Pike’s win in the Golden Globes for her role in I Care A Lot. She scooped the prize for best actress in a motion picture — comedy or musical. And that meant that she saw off some hot competition, provided by the likes of Borat sidekick Maria Bakalova and rising star Anya Taylor-Joy.

In I Care A Lot, which you can see on Netflix, Pike lights up the screen as Marla Grayson. In the dark comedy, she cheats senior citizens out of cash, having persuaded the courts to give her administrative control of their affairs. But she bites off more than she can chew when one of her marks turns out to be connected to a serious villain.

Pike had a lot of fun in the role, as she shared with showbiz magazine Entertainment Weekly. She noted that she had “enjoyed returning to the stage where I can enjoy darkly and sort of satirically shocking people.” Having once been a Bond girl, Pike really broke through when her dark turn in Gone Girl earned her a nomination at the 2014 Oscars.

The actress discussed how much she’d enjoyed the Grayson role with People magazine in March 2021. She said it was “always very attractive to watch somebody who’s very good at something, and Marla is very, very good at her hustle. It just happens that it’s a hustle that we can’t really approve of, and yet we find it really fun to watch, which makes us kind of not sure quite where our sort of ethics or moral compunction has gone.”

It probably shouldn’t have been a shock to Pike that she won the award, but as she told Ellen, it had been. She told the chat show host, “I had a one in five chance.” And she explained that she trusted the oddsmakers. “My family we tend to go to the bookies… The odds were not in my favor.”

The superstar continued, “Maria Bakalova was the favorite, and I tend to trust the bookies’ judgment.” Still, you’d have made out like a bandit if you had backed her to win the award; as the self-deprecating star noted, “You’d have won big if you bet on me, but I didn’t think you had a chance.”

Pike’s first thought in her acceptance speech was of her rivals. She said, “Ladies, I salute you. Wow! I bet it looks like I care a lot. I do, I care a lot.” And she noted that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which gives the awards, had picked a rather sinister role for the prize, saying, “HFPA, thank you! Thank you for recognizing, I suppose, the dark side of comedy.”

Still, dark Pike’s role may have been, but she felt she’d been better off than Bakalova. She said, “In my movie, I had to swim up from a sinking car [but] I think I still would rather do that than have been in a room with Rudy Giuliani. Maria, I salute your brilliance and your bravery.”

Ellen asked the former Bond girl about the details of accepting the award, given that Pike had not been in Hollywood. She said, “It was the middle of the night for you, right? You were still there in Prague.” Pike replied, “Yes, it was 3:30 a.m. when I won. I was in a ghostly hotel, where I checked in because I rented a room so I would be away from my children in the morning.”

But what was Pike doing in Prague? Well, it turns out that she lives there, having shifted home to the Czech Republic back in 2019. And the children she mentioned? They’re her two boys, the delightfully named Solo and Atom, whom she’s had with partner Robie Uniacke. She’s been with Uniacke for more than a decade.

Why go to Prague? After all, Pike is of course very British and doesn’t speak Czech. The actress explained her reason to British TV chat show host Graham Norton in March 2021. She said, “I’m working here, so we decided instead of the constant back and forth we would all up sticks and move here.”

So Pike hooked up by video link from the Prague hotel. But it wasn’t exactly hopping there. She told Ellen, “They said, when I checked, I said, how many guests do you have? They said, you are the only one.” Apparently, hotels were closed in the Czech capital unless you were on business – although Pike pointed out that business did quickly become pleasure for her.

Still, being on her own in the echoing corridors of the hotel proved a little bit dull for Pike. She did consider one way of livening up her stay, though, as she shared on Instagram. She posted, “What is about empty hotels that makes you want to set off the fire alarm?”

On the whole, Pike has been having a good time in Prague, even if it has been quiet. She told British Vogue magazine in February 2021, “We’ve enjoyed exploring Prague in its emptiness. That’s also been upsetting because so many businesses have struggled, but the city itself is still magical. We feel lucky to be in central Europe.”

Mind you, it hasn’t all been fun, with a bit of loneliness creeping in. Pike continued, “I wish we had other family members here with us. Since Brexit, England feels more remote because even the post [from home] doesn’t come as quickly. It’s actually quite startling.” The actress found one day trip took a funny turn, though, as she related in a TV appearance on The Jimmy Kimmel Show.

It began with what Pike hoped would be a cultural experience. She told host Kimmel, “I took [the boys] on what I have heard is a very wholesome and traditional Czech activity to do with kids, which is to go river rafting. There’s a lovely town called Cesky Krumlov quite near Prague… it’s this beautiful stretch of river and there are rapids and weirs.”

But the excursion did not turn out to be quite as wholesome as Pike might have hoped. No, you see, she had booked her family onto a “booze cruise.” And instead of sailing alongside fellow culture vultures, she told Kimmel, they were among “the drunkest human beings” she’d yet known.

The unexpected and apparently intriguing adventure had an impression on the actress’ boys, who she said, “haven’t stopped acting drunk” ever since. She told Kimmel, “My kids were fascinated... I promise you, I’ve never seen drunker human beings than I saw on this boat… Men who stood up and immediately fell flat.”

So did Pike sink a few drinks after learning that she’d won the Golden Globe? Ellen asked her whether she’d celebrated. Pike said, laughing, “I did. I did. I slept by way of celebration, and the next day, my sons… had drawn me some lovely pictures of it, which is almost better than the real thing.”

Certainly, it seems that the talented actress had earned her prize. For example, when Norton asked her about the film, she shared with him her recollection of a scene that had found her stuck in a car underwater. Her character had to fight to get clear of the waterlogged vehicle, which made quite an impression on Pike.

Pike explained to Norton that it had been quite the experience. She said, “I had the two most intense filming days of my life. As you are acting the panic, your sympathetic nervous system starts to react, and you get more and more adrenalized – it was exhilarating but also quite terrifying.”

The superstar continued, “There is an amazing underwater sequence, and they teach you in a very relaxed way, and you think, ‘This is great, I can do this,’ and you’ve just got comfortable with the idea when they say, ‘We are not going to do any of that. We are going to take away your mask and your oxygen, we’re going to suspend the car in water, and you’re going to struggle to get out.’”

But the director had taken pity on Pike, she disclosed. She added, “About halfway through the afternoon I was allowed to come to the surface and because we were in England, across the tank came this inflatable tray with mugs of tea and digestive biscuits [graham crackers]. It was the most welcome sight.”

So it’s fair to say that Pike had worked for her success! It’s the first time that she’s ever won a Golden Globe, but not the first time she has been in the frame. No, she’s had the nod a couple of times before, albeit for more dramatic roles. In 2015 she gained a nomination for her lead role in Gone Girl and followed up with another for A Private War in 2019.

And now that she has her long-desired Globe, what will Pike do with it? Pop it on display in a cabinet with her other awards? Allow it to sit on her mantel above the fireplace in Prague? Sit it on the kitchen counter perhaps? Nope, as she mentioned to Ellen, it feels a bit “awkward” to her to put awards on display.

No, you could say that Pike’s method of storage for her awards is unique to her. She doesn’t completely hide them away or put them in a box. But you might have to dig around a little if you want to see the whole Golden Globe, because of the peculiar place she’s decided to keep them in.

Yes, Pike revealed to Ellen that she likes to “bury” her awards in the garden. It’s a way that she’s devised to avoid the unease that guests might feel if they were confronted by a displayed award. She said, “How do people interact with them when they come to your home?”

The awards are not completely hidden from view, though, Pike pointed out. She said, “I bury them in the garden with a little bit showing up so you can have an enticing glimpse of a hand or maybe a crown or the globe maybe.” So visitors to the Pike household might get something of a shock if they go into the garden!

Now, it may be that this behavior on the part of a renowned actress strikes you as a symptom of some kind of mental disorder. And indeed, you wouldn’t be alone. Even Pike herself suggested that it might be “deeply psychological.” She even diagnosed herself with “imposter syndrome,” although watching her films would confirm her talents.

One thing that particularly tickles Pike’s fancy is the thought of people who own the house after her. They’re going to get a shock when they first weed the garden! She told Ellen that she imagined that surprise could even occur long after she’s taken her final bow on planet Earth.

Pike said, “In the future when I’m dead and gone or when somebody else buys the house they’ll be landscaping and hit metal and think they’ve found buried treasure,’ she shared, adding, “And they’ll in fact have found a host of awards.” Then it occurred to her that they might not even recognize what they’d found. She added, “They’re probably centuries ahead and won’t even have [the awards] anymore.”

What did Ellen make of Pike’s confession? Well, she was supportive. She said, “I think it’s so interesting that you bury – it’s wonderful that you don’t want to show them off and display them.” Still, her own solution to not wanting to put them on display at home was quite different.

Yes, it turns out that Ellen too avoids showing off in the place that she lives. She said, “I don’t bring mine home. Mine are all here at the studio, at the office.” Pike agreed that that was a solution. She replied, “If you have an office, it’s different, I think.”

Even so, Ellen was not going to allow the chance to have a dig at her guest to pass. She said, “I just think it’s weird… but totally fine.” Then she suggested that she’d be busy in the commercial break when she added, “I’ll find a therapist in the audience.”

When the video of ellen that featured Pike hit YouTube, fans flocked to share how much they love the actress. But some had questions too. User rian reyes asked, “What if you won an Oscar? Should you bury it?” while Pooja Sagar was sure what Pike was doing. They wrote, “She doesn’t bury the awards… She plants them!!”

So what might be the next award to be “planted” in Pike’s backyard? Well, interestingly, it may be a gong for production. The actress has moved into a behind-the-camera role on forthcoming TV series Wheel of Time. Don’t worry, though, you’ll also get to see her, as she has a star role in the fantasy jaunt.

Pike told website Gold Derby, “It’s another genre that I just don’t know, fantasy, and it felt like an exciting opportunity and I thought, ‘If I’m going to be here for a long time, then I want to be involved in a very deep way. I want to understand all the elements of this and contribute, contribute more than just as an actress.’”

Pike will also produce in another new genre to her: science fiction. She’ll be working on The Three-Body Problem, which is based on the novels by Chinese writer Liu Cixin. And she’s going to have some exciting partners, working alongside Game of Thrones legends Dan Weiss and David Benioff. Look out for that one to turn up on Netflix too.