Rooney Mara looks stunning.
Mara, it seems, had the right combination of lovability and strangeness. “There were all these different versions of Salander, but the one that had the most layers was Rooney’s. I kept coming back to this.” He gestures theatrically toward Mara as she stares at the table with a big grin on her face. “I thought, Thisis the person to follow.”
The day she got the part, Fincher called Mara into his office. “I said, ‘I need you to come in so I can get a photograph of you on a motorcycle.’ ” Mara was annoyed. “I was ready to throw down,” she says. “I was thinking, You either think I can be this girl or you don’t, but I need to move on with my life. He sat me down and gave me this long spiel about all the bad things that are going to come to whoever plays this part. He said something like, ‘Vivien Leigh was incredible in A Streetcar Named Desire, but she will always be Scarlett O’Hara, and you need to be prepared for that.’ ”
Fincher laughs: “Yeah, and I also said, ‘Have you given any thought about what it’s like to be Ginger on Gilligan’s Island? You may never get out from under it. Are you willing to put your head down, do the hard work, not go crazy?’ ”
Fincher seems pretty confident he picked the right girl. When Mara excuses herself from the table for a moment, he turns to me. “Oh, man,” he says, smiling. “She’s a weirdo. She’s a great weirdo.”
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