There is no doubt that Rooney Mara She is one of the most interesting active actresses on the current scene, and we only need to take a look at his recent filmography to verify it. To his work in ‘Her’, ‘Carol’ —for which he received his second Oscar nomination— or ‘A Ghost Story’ we must add his last two fantastic works in ‘The Alley of Lost Souls’ by Guillermo del Toro and in the celebrated ‘Ellas habland’ by Sarah Polley.
However, there was a decisive moment in Mara’s career that was about to deprive us of her talent and magnetism on screen. This takes us back to the year 2010, when ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Origin’ was released; a rather watered-down remake of Wes Craven’s jewel whose filming is not remembered with special enthusiasm by the interpreter.
Turning points
Within the framework of the LaunchLeft podcast, the actress has explained how her experience on the set of the film directed by Samuel Bayer made her a much more selective professional with the projects in which he decides to get involved.
“A few years before ‘Millennium: The Men Who Didn’t Love Women,’ I did a ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ remake, which was not a good experience. I have to be careful what I say and how I talk about it. Making it wasn’t the best experience and I got to this point, where I still am, where I don’t want to act unless I’m doing something that I feel like I have to do. So after making that movie, somehow, I decided, ‘OK, I’m just not going to act anymore unless it’s something that makes me feel that way.'”
Fortunately, shortly after David Fincher arrived to restore Mara’s faithwho had to do a lot on her part to become the Lisbeth Salander that helped her scratch her first Oscar nomination.
“I got an audition for ‘The Social Network,’ which was for a small role but in an amazing scene, and then I didn’t go back to work until ‘Millennium,’ I think. David didn’t want to audition me because he didn’t think I was right for it. based on what I did on ‘The Social Network,’ and I insisted on doing it. Then he had to fight really hard for me to get the part, because the studio didn’t want me. It was a real turning point in my life and in my race”.
The experience working with Fincher, whose reputation as a relentless perfectionist invites you to think of something radically different from kind and nurturing, It was decisive for the future of the actress.
“I worked on it for a year straight. I was under David’s wing. He became my mentor in many ways. He was very careful to make sure I knew I had a voice and that I meant something. He constantly empowered me, which I think affected to the rest of my choices thereafter.”