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Rosamund Pike laments being photoshopped in movie posters

Rosamund Pike is a sure-bet to deliver searing performances, but how those films are promoted is one element that remains completely out of her control.

The one-time Oscar nominee stopped by The Kelly Clarkson Show  this week. Clarkson asked Pike if retouching bothers her, and Pike's response was telling: 

"When I last flew, which was over a year ago, I was on a flight with this guy, and I took a selfie. He looked over my shoulder—someone I didn't know—and he said, 'Oh, no, no, babe. You gotta face-tune that.' I said, 'Sorry, what?' ... That was my introduction to the world of face-tuning, which I then realized has often happened to [me]. Well, body-tuning. For the poster of Johnny English, my breasts were augmented. In the poster, the character shot, I've got a very impressive chest, which I don't have. For Radioactive, strangely, they made my eyes brown, which I still don't quite know why."So, it's odd. But then I was thinking about it. ... Those are the obvious times, right? When you do notice. You're like, 'Oh, I've got brown eyes.' Or, 'I've got massive breasts.' But there are probably countless times where our image is doctored, and we don't notice it because I think we're all losing a grip on what we really look like."

While Pike disagrees with Hollywood's devious nature when it comes to body image, the 42-year-old leaned into dishonesty as Marla Grayson in Netflix's I Care a Lot

The comedic crime film follows Marla, a legal guardian who presents as "someone who cares," as she cons the elderly out of their savings. I Care a Lot first released at the Toronto Film Festival last September, then hit Netflix last Friday. 

Of course, this wasn't the first time Pike has had to embody an outlaw, as she previously co-starred with Ben Affleck in David Fincher-directed thriller Gone Girl

Pike has also kept busy as the narrator to animated series Archibald's Next Big Thing, which ran on Netflix for its first two season before moving to Peacock for Archibald's Next Big Thing Is Here this year.

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