Pike snaps up chance to make us chuckle

Rosamund Pike and author nick Hornby are to reunite after nearly a decade.

The oscar-nominated actress and the best-selling writer worked together when Hornby adapted Lynn Barber’s memoir an Education for the screen. The film was Carey mulligan’s breakthrough role and also marked Pike’s emergence as a grade-a funny girl.

Her performance as Helen, a seemingly air- headed, vacant blonde, was a masterpiece of comic acting. Ever since, she and Hornby have wanted to make more laughter together.

‘ We haven’t stopped talking about working together again, and something is coming soon,’ Pike, pictured, told me earlier this year.

Well that ‘something’ has turned into a big deal. Pike will star with Chris o’dowd in a mini, miniseries called state of The union. They play an estranged married couple going through marriage counselling. The series — ten, ten-minute comedies — was written by Hornby and will be directed by stephen Frears, who enjoyed critical and ratings success recently with the BBC’s a Very British scandal. Filming for state of The union is about to start on locations in and around London. The producers at see-saw Films made television drama Top of The Lake and steve mcQueen’s forthcoming thriller Widows, which will open the BFI London Film Festival on september 10. They are filming state of The union for sundance TV in the u.s. But British networks are after it, too. after filming, Pike will take her new movie a Private War, in which she portrays marie Colvin, the late sunday Times war correspondent, to the autumn film festivals.