Reese Witherspoon says David Fincher told her she was 'totally wrong' for a role in Gone Girl

Reese Witherspoon says David Fincher told her she was "totally wrong" for a role in Gone Girl.

Despite calls from author Gillian Flynn to cast the Legally Blonde star in the role of Amy Dunne, which went to Rosamund Pike, the director of the 2014 movie adaptation of the psychological thriller stood his ground.

Witherspoon recounted on the Las Culturistas podcast: “David sat me down - and this is not on David - but David’s like, ‘You’re totally wrong for this part, and I’m not putting you in it.’”

She continued: “I had all these conversations with the writer Gillian Flynn, and she was like, ‘No, I’d really like you to do it.'

“But he was like, ‘You’re wrong.’”

The 49-year-old actress - whose production company produced the title - admitted that was the first time she'd had an "ego check".

She said: “That was, first of all, an ego check for me.

"It was like, ‘No, you’re not right for everything.’ And he was right. He was totally right.”

Praising the filmmaker, she said: "Fincher just killed it, and Rosamund Pike is so diabolical and Ben Affleck is sort of the rube on the other side of it.”