Rooney Mara has been a very busy girl since starring in her big role as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
This year, she’s working on multiple films set for a 2013 release, but she found time to grace the cover of the March 2013 issue of Interview magazine.
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Mara, who also turned heads with her small role in The Social Network, is the daughter of New York Giants Executive Timothy Christopher Mara and Kathleen McNulty, the granddaughter of Art Rooney, Sr., the founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers franchise.
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Mara, shot by Mikael Jansson for her very prim cover look, gives us her best alluring, sex-me gazes for the shoot, while wearing Maison Martin Margiela. She also sat down with Interview to talk about college, tattoos, and her acting method.
On her college years:
“When I was at college, my nickname was Keds, because I wore Keds. I guess it wasn’t really a nickname, because nicknames are usually given to you by people who are your friends and who know you. But I didn’t know the people who called me Keds. I think that they didn’t like me because I didn’t want to join a sorority. I left that school.”
On her acting method:
“Because I am such a pleasure to be around, [David] Fincher would prolong my scenes so that I would be on set all of the time. And maybe because I am stubborn, I thought that I could out-stubborn him. But you can’t out-stubborn a Finch. He was always right, though. Not everyone can make films with ‘less than one take,’ like you.”
On her spontaneous spirit:
“When I do a film, I follow the director. And because you wing everything—like this interview—I decided that that’s the way I should work as well.”
On her “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” tats:
“I don’t have any. That was acting.”
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