Rosamund Pike insists she doesn’t need her long-term boyfriend Robie Uniacke and says “separation” is the key to their successful relationship.
The Gone Girl star is expecting her second child with the mathematical researcher.
The 35-year-old actress said: “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.”
The British actress, who was previously engaged to Pride & Prejudice director Joe Wright, believes it takes more than one person to meet all of her needs.
She explained to Spectrum magazine: “People have ridiculous expectations of a mate. In my grandmother’s day, you wouldn’t expect your husband to fulfil 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.”
Rosamund has been in a relationship with Robie, 53, for six years and previously told The Guardian newspaper that he has helped her to become a better actress.
She recently said: “I have a very clever partner who’s got a very astute mind and is very, very well read and articulate and ruthless about how something I do might play out on screen. My tendency is to identify with a character and imagine there is more on the page than there is. He’s quite good at putting a check on that.”
