United Kingdom, March 12 -- Rosamund Pike feels "lucky" for her career to have survived starring in "one of the worst films ever made".

The 47-year-old actress' career got off to a "promising start" when she played Miranda Frost in James Bond film Die Another Day in 2002 but she realised she would never be an action star after she was cast as scientist Samantha Grimm in 2005's video game adaptation Doom.

Speaking on How to Fail With Elizabeth Day, Rosamund said: "When I was making Pride and Prejudice, and I was having great fun in my cornfields in my bonnet, I get a call to be in an action franchise.

"They're making a cinema version, a narrative version of the video game Doom. And I think in my bonnet, in my field of hay bales, 'Yeah, ...