Rooney Mara promotes Girl With The Dragon Tattoo in character as Lisbeth Salander on the cover of American Vogue November 2011. I don’t hate this cover, even though I’m vaguely against the David Fincher remake with slightly-prettier people speaking English in the near scene-for-scene remake of the 2009 Swedish movie (based on the books). Incidentally, Mara also worked with Fincher ‘for four days, over 2,400 takes’ as Erica Albright, the main character Mark Zuckerberg’s girlfriend, on The Social Network. I’ve not read the GWTDT books, yet. But after the half-hearted pearl-clutching about the remake for people too lazy to read subtitles/ closed captions, I did watch the Swedish movie. I live-tweeted/FBd my reactions to it, even the scenes a weak-stomached Daniel Craig was shocked by in Esquire, saying, ‘[Fincher] showed me some scenes recently, and my hand was over my mouth, going, Are you f**king serious?’ My reaction to one of the movie’s key scenes was… ‘Girl With The S**T JUST GOT REAL Tattoo.’ And that really sums it up. The 2009 movie, anyway. The Fincher version’s unoriginal, but on the same page in its copy pasta of the original’s violence. Well, here’s Mara, cast in the role originally taken by Noomi Rapace. With the tiny, harsh bangs and the focus on pale skin and ghoulish make-up that make her looked washed-out inside the issue. Her interview, trailer, her in TSN and the 2009 trailer are below along with the rest of Mara’s Vogue photo shoot.
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