Rooney Mara She’s one of those actresses who’s experienced equal parts failure and success, and though she’s in it now some of the best feature films of the year, was about to quit acting due to a bad experience with a project. Trauma that explains the forced selectivity with which now The Oscar nominee chooses the productions. In these last two years we have been able to see it The alley of lost souls by Guillermo del Toro and in Women Talking by Sarah Polleybut the performer opened up in a recent interview about her career, which has one main savior: director David Fincher.
Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix at the Oscars (Greg Williams)
In a new podcast show Start leftMara explained that the reason for being so selective with her projects is due in large part to her experience in the late 2000s which almost led her to leave the profession: “A few years ago Millennium: men who didn’t like womenhad made a new version of Nightmare on Elm streetthat was not a good experience”. The actress refers to Nightmare on Elm street. The originthe feature film released in 2010 directed by Samuel Bayer with rather negative reviews from the specialized press and with the disapproval of the murderer’s fans sharp Freddy Krueger. The actress of Carol yes Mary Magdalene she didn’t want to go into more detail and was very careful in her explanation, noting that she had gotten to a point where she didn’t want to act unless she was doing things she felt she had to. “I’ve decided ‘Okay, I’m not going to act anymore unless it’s something that makes me feel that way.'”
“Millennium: The Men Who Didn’t Love Women” (Sony Pictures)
Luckily for fans, that has changed with her small but important role in David Fincher’s social network. A collaboration that paved the way for Daniel Craig to lead the new North American adaptation of the best-seller Millennium, written by the late Stieg Larsson. Mara was full of praise for the director of Seven yes Fighting circlesaying working with him transformed her perspective on acting, prioritizing working with directors who treated her with a similar level of respect: “David has really taken me under his wing. He has become my mentor in many ways. He was so careful to make sure I knew I had a voice and that my opinion meant something. He was constantly empowering me, which I think really influenced the rest of my choices from then on.”
We will see Rooney Mara again this February when he debuts on the 17th Women who speakwhich in Spain we translated as They speak.
