Rosamund Pike rues not being more "strategic" with her career after starring in Gone Girl.
The 47-year-old star earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role in the 2014 psychological thriller but admits that she was "sort of insane" to take herself out of the spotlight for 18 months afterwards as she had recently welcomed her youngest son Atom, 12.
Rosamund - who also has son Solo, 14, with her partner Robie Uniacke - told The Sunday Times newspaper: "I'm not very strategic in terms of my career, making sure I am in the right place, meeting the right people.
"I made Gone Girl, I got pregnant, I wasn't there to do all the schmoozing and ride the whole shebang. I could have been so much more strategic. I was at a point where I could have got a lot of jobs but took myself out of the running for 18 months, which was sort of insane."
Pike made her big-screen debut in the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day as the villainous fencer and double agent Miranda Frost but has some regrets about her performance in the flick - which marked Pierce Brosnan's final outing as 007.
She said: "I could have been so much better in Die Another Day.
"I didn't know how to talk to someone within the real MI5, or a real Olympian, to help me do a better job, to make it more real."
However, Rosamund is still "very proud" that she got the opportunity to appear in the legendary spy franchise.
The Saltburn star said: "It's something I'm very proud to have been in. Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson couldn't have been kinder, nicer producers."
Rosamund's upcoming projects include the Guy Ritchie movies Wife and Dog and In The Grey and she loves the unpredictable methods of the Snatch director.
She said: "I love (Ritchie's) mad way of working. I went down to Tenerife to film one scene and ended up shooting five in one day.
"And as someone who likes to prepare, working for a guy you can't prepare for... All he wants you to do is commit to something. Put your head above the parapet. You're impelled to take a risk, to go with the flow."
