Rosamund Pike Calls Out Viewers Member for Texting at West End Present

Rosamund Pike was not impressed by a member of the viewers at her West End present Inter Alia over the weekend.

After Saturday evening’s efficiency of the hard-hitting authorized drama — a task that lately gained Pike an Olivier Award — the Saltburn and Pride and Prejudice star took to the stage for the ultimate bows. She stunned attendees by making a brief speech.

Pike reportedly stated: “I just wanted to say for anyone going to the theater, it’s a huge thing that we’re trying to give you. I am trying to tell you a story, and I’m feeling you, and I hope you’re feeling me too. Somebody was texting in this part,” she continued, gesturing towards a selected part. “Maybe it was very important, and maybe you’re a doctor, and you’re saving someone’s life, and I hope you are.”

“But we do see these, we do feel them,” she added. “I’ve got you, I feel like I’ve got to hold you all, so when I feel that and see it, it’s hard.”

An viewers member instructed The Times that Pike appeared “genuinely upset.” They added: “We all felt a bit stunned. It is a very emotional play. She indicated the area of the stalls where the person was sitting but said she would not single them out.”

Pike is at present starring in Suzie Miller’s Inter Alia, a few crown courtroom decide preventing the authorized system’s strategy to sexual violence when she finds out her personal son has been accused of rape, for a restricted interval after a profitable run on the National Theatre final yr.

She’s not the one star who has spoken out about theater etiquette. During Cynthia Erivo’s headline-grabbing stint in Dracula, she stopped a efficiency after recognizing somebody within the crowd filming. Andrew Scott did the identical throughout a 2024 manufacturing of Hamlet, when an attendee had taken out their laptop computer to ship emails in the course of the character’s well-known soliloquy.

Historically, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig and James McAvoy have additionally criticized viewers members for disrupting their reveals.