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Actress Rooney Mara says appearing in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo changed her style and made her less feminine. The 26-year-old plays the role of the rebellious Lisbeth Salander in the movie. “Before I got the part, I was definitely more feminine and girlie. I wore a lot of pale shades and I haven’t really rediscovered that yet,” contactmusic.com quoted Mara as saying.
”I’ve kept with the black and dark colours,” she added.
At the close of the Toronto International Film Festival, Star writers typically make their picks for Fresh Faces of the fest; actors who show the promise that leads to solid careers.
Among my choices in 2009 was Rooney Mara, 24-year-old co-star of a small-budget boarding school drama Tanner Hall, a demurely dressed young woman who posed for a photo at the Hotel InterContinental in a blue frock with white lace collar.
On Dec. 20, audiences will see Mara covered in facial piercings, dressed in leathers and sporting chopped inky hair and bleached eyebrows as hacker Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Based on Swedish writer Stieg Larsson’s massive 2005 bestseller and directed by David Fincher, the thriller, co-starring Daniel Craig, Stellan Skarsgard and Christopher Plummer, is making an impression on critics and has netted a Best Actress Golden Globe nomination for Mara.
“Were we outside with all the girls? Or we were outside? I remember, and we took a picture,” Mara said with laugh of that afternoon in Yorkville. “And look where I am now. Very exciting.” • Read full story »
The suspense surrounding the release of the film adaption of the Swedish thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has been almost as gripping as the novel itself: First we learned that David Fincher (Fight Club, The Social Network) would be directing the project, then it was rumored—and later confirmed—that the not-so-Swedish Daniel Craig would star as the male lead. Next came the unexpected twist of casting the doe-eyed Rooney Mara as the film’s darkly seditious title character. And then the plot thickened even more: Legendary face-painter Pat McGrath was enlisted to be the makeup expert responsible for transforming Mara into a stone-cold, kohl-eyed computer hacker. After receiving a personal e-mail from Fincher—one that almost went overlooked—McGrath flew out to the set in Sweden to design more than 20 looks to be used in the film trilogy. Here, she talks to Style.com about bleached eyebrows, letting “raw” skin show through on camera, and why a red smoky eye reads better on screen than black.
—Kari Molvar
How did the journey with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo begin for you? Had you met David Fincher before?
No, I had never met him before. He sent me an e-mail out of the blue asking me to do the makeup for the film in July, when everybody is on holiday and everything shuts down. I don’t think I saw the e-mail for weeks. Once I realized it was David Fincher himself, I was very excited. I immediately said yes, and the next thing I knew, I was flying out to Sweden to meet David, his team, and Rooney. • Read full story »
Rooney Mara went through a drastic transformation for her role in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, shaving parts of her head and piercing not only her lip, eyebrow, and nose, but her nipple too. For our January cover, the actress revealed a soft and sweetly pretty side, and told Allure about her low-key real-life beauty regimen.
Her one-minute makeup routine: ”Tinted moisturizer, concealer if I need it, and some powder—probably Laura Mercier or Chanel. I use a Nars blush stick on my lips, too.”
Her scent of choice: ”This year, when I was screen-testing for [The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo], all of my clothes had this smell on them. I asked the wardrobe lady, and she’s like, ‘The woman who makes the clothes, it’s the smell that she puts in it.’ That woman has a candle and a perfume line, so I do wear her perfume—Agatha Blois Carnival Wax, Black Amber.”
How she maintains her flawless complexion: ”SPF. I can’t leave the house without that. For my face, I use Dermalogica.”
Her short hair story: ”Now, I do nothing. Before, I had so much hair and it was so much maintenance.”
Stylist meets the girl who won Hollywood’s most coveted role
In Stockholm, the sun went down half an hour ago. It’s 3pm. I’ve just completed the Millennium Tour – an hour-long walk around the city where parts of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling trilogy (65million copies sold in 46 countries) were set
The darkness and the medieval beauty of the city, along with the memory of the books’ violence, have unnerved me as I return to the hotel where I’ll be interviewing Rooney Mara; the relatively unknown actress cast as Lisbeth Salander in the upcoming, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Fans of Larsson (who died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 50 in 2004, shortly before the books were published) will know what I mean when I say Rooney is “very Salander”. For those of you who don’t, let me explain. Salander is a slight, tattooed, multi-pierced, social outcast deemed legally incompetent by the state. Sitting before me now, Rooney is neither tattooed, nor multi-pierced and seems entirely capable of looking after herself; but she is very guarded. She’s petite and her short hair dyed jet black makes her look even paler. When she shakes my hand, her touch is so delicate, I fear I may have broken her fingers. We start the interview; her arms are folded. She’s prone to one-word answers – and don’t even think about asking her about her boyfriend, Curb Your Enthusiasm director Charlie McDowell. The room is eerily quiet; I’m starting to worry this won’t go well.
After three very successful Swedish film adaptations of the trilogy – starring Sherlock Holmes 2’s Noomi Rapace – were made just two years ago, it was surprising when The Social Network’s director David Fincher announced in 2010 he would make an American version. Apart from one omission, Fincher’s much slicker version takes in every twist and turn of the novel, something which nudges the film towards the two-and-a-half hour mark …but which keeps you spellbound for every minute. And Rooney is brilliant. Emotionally (and physically) naked for much of the film, she deserves an Oscar nod. Maybe that’s what’s worrying her. The 26-year-old’s life is set to change dramatically. • Read full story »
A dressed-in-black Rooney Mara looks more like an upwardly mobile ingenue than a ragged street punk, as she casually chats to an acquaintance in the stylish lobby of the Crosby Street Hotel.
Her real-life persona serves to underscore the magic of her transformation into the streetwise computer hacker Lisbeth Salander in the David Fincher-directed adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s popular novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Opening Dec. 20, the thriller features Mara as the dysfunctional but brilliant Salander, hired by reporter Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) to help him with an investigation into the disappearance of a girl 40 years earlier. Assigned to the job by the rich patriarch (Christopher Plummer) of the girl’s family, Salander and Blomkvist uncover horrifying events from the family’s past and present.
The details of the case, and the lead characters in the whodunit, are familiar to Larsson fans, and there are many. The dearly departed writer sold more than 65 million copies of his crime trilogy, Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. The Swedish/Danish trio of films of the books were released in 2009, with Noomi Rapace playing Salander and Michael Nykvist playing Blomkvist. So comparisons to the Fincher production are inevitable. • Read full story »
To play the role of Lisbeth Salander in “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” Rooney Mara had her hair dyed black and chopped short and asymmetrical, her eyebrows bleached blonde, and her eyebrow, ears and nipple pierced. And that was only the beginning of her transformation.
A scion of football royalty—her great-grandfathers, Timothy Mara and Art Rooney Sr., founded the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers, respectively—Ms. Mara parlayed a popular (if small) part in David Fincher’s “The Social Network” (as Mark Zuckerberg’s jilted girlfriend) into consideration for the central role of Lisbeth in Mr. Fincher’s new adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s best-selling novel.
To win the role, Ms. Mara, who was born and raised in Westchester County, endured a two-month audition process that included being asked to get drunk and then do a screen test while hung over. The Journal recently sat down with the 26-year-old actor, who was dressed in black from head-to-toe, at the Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo.
A goth haircut is one thing, but were you nervous about getting all those piercings for the role of Lisbeth?
I wasn’t really fazed by it at all. I was auditioning for two and a half months at that point, so I was already getting into character and anxious to get started. They cut and dyed the hair and bleached the eyebrows all in one afternoon here at the Crosby Street Hotel. Then we went to Brooklyn and got the piercings. We walked in, we knew what we were going to do. It was me and David [Fincher] and Trish [Summerville, the costume designer], and she got me some orange juice and we got the piercings. David didn’t want to stay in the room—he is really squeamish about those kinds of things, which is really funny considering the movies he makes. And it was really easy. It hurts for a second but I wasn’t very scared. • Read full story »
I have consolidate all “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo“ movie reviews for you guys:
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a beautiful thriller
Rest assured, Stieg Larsson acolytes. One of the most important questions to be asked in the late Swedish author’s mega-selling mystery The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - the line “Do you want a coffee?” – makes it into David Fincher’s movie….
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,Twilight, and the Return of Women’s Blockbuster Films
When The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo hits movie theaters on December 21st, it will be the second major female-led franchise movie released in just over a month. The first, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part I, has already earned over $640 million dollars worldwide since its November 18th release and has become the third-highest grossing movie….
Blindfolds, gags, tongues, fists — and that’s just the opening credits of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” David Fincher’s adaptation of the massively popular Swedish crime novel and 2009 film. It’s stylish, if not exactly subtle, and….
Given their dominance on international bestseller lists and at the box office over the past few years, you’d think we’d know what The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the Millennium trilogy are all about by now….
For months people have asked, “Why do we need an English-language remake of ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ “? The Swedish version was already an international hit, not to mention a tough act to follow. Why bother?….
