The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

“Rooney Mara doesn’t take any interactions for granted, and she won’t hide it if something isn’t worth her time. But once you get to know her you realize she’s a playful girl, very funny, with a biting wit.”


David Fincher

www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/t-magazine/this-is-rooney-mara.html




(...) I think Salander has been too betrayed. You want somebody who can play that but who doesn’t personally need emotional resuscitation at the end of every hour. And then somewhere during that incredibly rigorous and infuriating two months where Rooney came back five times to screen-test, it became obvious to me that what I wanted was that puppy in the window—the last one. The more people said no, the more I was like, “I want the girl who wants to be here more than she is being encouraged.” I thought she had all the physical attributes to play the character, and, obviously, I knew she had the chops as an actor, but I really . . . There was a point in time where it actually got embarrassing for me to ask her to do one more thing. But I knew in my head this was going to work out because Rooney wanted it. (...)  Rooney seems like the type of person who thrives under that kind of pressure. No one likes a crumbling crybaby.


David Fincher

www.interviewmagazine.com/film/rooney-mara-and-david-fincher/#page3