Barefoot Bond girl: Rosamund Pike indulges in some dirty dancing with Dominic Cooper at Made In Dagenham afterparty

By Daily Mail Reporter

Barefoot Bond girl: Rosamund Pike shed her shoes as she got into the spirit of things at Floridita in London last night, dancing with actor Dominic Cooper


With their best dresses on, hair and make-up perfect, the stars turned out for the Made In Dagenham premiere in London tonight.

But it wasn't long before Rosamund Pike and Jaime Winstone were happily letting their hair down - dancing to sixties music at the boisterous afterparty.

Bond girl Rosamund even shed her shoes as she danced barefoot with actor Dominic Cooper at Floridita in London.


They've got the moves: Rosamund and Dominic seemed not to care who saw as they danced the night away


Cooper, the former boyfriend of Amanda Seyfried, did his best to keep up with Rosamund as she danced the night away.

Perhaps he was showing her some of his moves from the Mamma Mia! musical.

Rosamund, 31, and Jaime, 25, had earlier posed for the cameras alongside a vintage sixties Ford Cortina in Leicester Square.

The Cortina was made at the Ford Dagenham plant, where in 1968 female workers walked out in protest at sexual discrimination, a period documented by the film.


Letting her hair down: Jaime Winstone led the celebs at the afterparty for Made In Dagenham last night


Calender Girl's director Nigel Cole is behind the movie, which stars Happy-Go-Lucky's Sally Hawkins as Rita O'Grady, who sparked the protest which eventually led to the Equal Pay Act.

Hawkins said she felt proud to be a part of the film. 'We owe these women greatly and we don't even know how much we owe them,' she said.

But she said the film made her consider how women are still not yet equal to men in the workplace.

'The film industry, like a lot of industries, the men have dominated for a long time,' she said.

'I think it's great a woman won best director at the Oscars but I think that it's 2010 and it's only just happened is a little bit insane really. But at least it has happened now.'


Vintage vehicle: This Cortina was made at the Ford Dagenham plant, where in 1968 female workers walked out in protest at sexual discrimination, a period documented by the film


Striking a pose: Bond girl Rosamund Pike draped herself over the Cortina


Back to the sixties: Miranda Richardson, Daisy Lowe and Sandy Shaw, who recorded the soundtrack


Miranda Richardson and Bob Hoskins also appear in the British movie while Dagenham girl Sandie Shaw, who sings on the soundtrack, signed autographs for cheering fans.

Director Cole and Hoskins, who plays the female factory workers' union rep, agreed the war was not over.

Cole said: 'I think the war hasn't been won, but I think their battle was won. It's now illegal to pay women a different wage to men if they have the same job.


A shot of glamour: Rosamund plays one of the Ford workers who in 1968 walked out in protest at unequal pay


'The trouble is, there are women's jobs and men's jobs, and women's jobs have a lower value, and that's the next fight.'

Hoskins agreed: 'What gets me is in 1975 Barbara Castle brought in a law making it illegal to pay women less than men for the same job and they're still getting away with it.'

Richardson said she was proud to play Labour politician Barbara Castle in the film.
She said: 'These choices and freedoms that we [women] have now have been very hard work.'

Some of the original 187 Ford factory workers, who consulted with Hawkins, Cole and scriptwriters Billy Bragg and David Arnold on the production, attended the premiere.

One former striker, who gave her name only as Sheila, said: 'It's made us realise what we achieved. We didn't think it would be anything like this, we were only fighting for ourselves.'

But she agreed the war on equality was not over.

She said: 'No way. It's a law, but who takes any notice of the law?'


The cast: Miranda Richardson, Jaime, Bob Hoskins, Sally Hawkins, Sandie Shaw and Geraldine James


Among the crowds of fans and autograph hunters on the red carpet were a group of former Ford factory workers protesting against their lost pensions.

The Visteon Pension Action Group claim their full pension entitlements were guaranteed by Ford when it created Visteon, but the company has now gone into liquidation.

They brandished 'Ford Fraud' banners and wore T-shirts and caps with the word Fraud written in the style of the Ford logo.

But they waved to the stars and sang along to the 60s soundtrack as they waved their protest banners.


source: dailymail