Romantic for the BBC in its debut in 1999 in adaptations of the works of Nancy Mitford, James Bond Girl docile blonde (
Die Another Day
), the wisest heroine of Jane Austen (Jane Bennet in
Pride and Prejudice
), Rosamund Pike put a good decade to lose the label of "English rose", which pursues the actresses who, like her and Kate Winslet, have been revealed in historical fictions.
In this Amazon Prime Video transposition of
The Wheel of Time
, Robert Jordan's cult fantasy saga (14 volumes published between 1990 and 2013, 90 million copies sold), the 42-year-old Briton plays a female figure in the Gandalf.
Classic initiatory story
Moiraine Damodred, her character, belongs to the order of Aes Sadai, women mastering the "unique power", a flow of energy.
Powerful, these "witches" can neither lie, nor transform this power into a weapon.
The altière Moiraine must identify "the reincarnated dragon" destined, according to a prophecy, either to save
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