Every diary entry you see on screen in Gone Girl was built with the help of a professional graphologist. Rosamund Pike did not just learn to imitate a style. She consulted a handwriting expert to design what Amy Dunne's script would reveal about her personality, then wrote every entry that way.
Pike also trained with Holly Lawson, a professional boxer, and cycled her weight three times during production, gaining and losing to match Amy at different points in the story. The preparation was invisible. That was the point.
The diary is one of the film's central unreliable documents. Every page of it was a performance before Pike ever appeared on screen.
People on Backlot are rewatching this one. It streams on Netflix.
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