Gone Girl star Rosamund Pike's son, 12, goes viral after winning Chinese-language contest

Rosamund Pike's 12-year-old lad Solo Uniacke has gone viral successful China aft winning the planetary title astatine a Mandarin-language competition.

On October 28, Solo was named the victor of the Chinese Bridge contention for superior schoolhouse students, held successful bluish China's Tianjin municipality.⁠

The pre-teen, whose Chinese sanction is You Zijun, started learning the connection erstwhile helium was conscionable three and has since grasped 400 Chinese characters.

While determination are much than 50,000 Mandarin characters, the mean idiosyncratic lone needs to cognize astir 2,500.

According to South China Morning Post, Solo said aft his triumph successful the government-run contention that helium would proceed learning the connection until radical respect him arsenic 'the archetypal Chinese with blonde hair.'

Solo's Mandarin skills person near galore radical connected societal media impressed.

'How cool!!!!' 1 noted connected Instagram.

Another wrote: 'Bros Chinese sounds amended than mine.'

Writing connected X, a 3rd added: 'Wow! I'm beauteous impressed that British histrion Rosamund Pike's household (including herself) are fluent Mandarin speakers!!!'

Over connected TikTok, a 4th penned: 'Oh my gosh, that is hella impressive.'

Another added of Rosamund: 'And she is down the 3 Body Problem adaptation so.... yeah, she loves the Chinese culture.'

Gone Girl histrion Rosamund, 45, shares 2 sons, Solo and Atom, 10, with her spouse of 15 years, Robie Uniacke.

In 2021, Rosamund revealed connected The Graham Norton Show that her sons were bilingual due to the fact that her spouse thought it would beryllium breathtaking to talk to them successful a connection helium didn't already know.

She explained: 'So helium taught himself Chinese from the crushed up.

'Well, you could telephone it brilliant, oregon you could telephone it truly stubborn, oregon you could telephone it a benignant of tendency for azygous parenting.

'He's fundamentally talking to them successful a connection I don't recognize truthful I thought possibly lockdown was a bully accidental for maine to drawback up.'

Six years before, portion promoting Gone Girl successful 2015, Rosamund shared that her different fractional had fixed her the Chinese sanction Péi Chúnhuá.

At the time, she encouraged the Chinese media to notation to her arsenic Péi arsenic doing different 'would disrespect Chinese cinephiles.'

Rosamund, who serves arsenic an enforcement shaper connected Three Body Problem, has been hugely supportive of Chinese Bridge, the contest for overseas students connected their mastery of the country's language.

In a video up of this year's final, she said of the program: 'The enactment has been truthful inspiring. 

'The things you've done, the videos I've seen, the pictures, it each conscionable looks amazing. 

'Huge congratulations to each the children, the parents, the teachers, who've enactment successful specified a fantastic effort.'