Rooney Mara is an unimaginable actor. She’s been in tons of stuff that you have most likely liked, and he or she’s been nominated for 2 Oscars too.
You may also do not forget that she starred within the reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street that got here out again in 2010.
Well, it seems that the expertise of creating that movie was sufficient to briefly persuade Rooney that she ought to stop appearing utterly.
In a brand new interview for the LaunchLeft podcast, Rooney stated that filming A Nightmare on Elm Street wasn’t a “good experience.”
She additionally stated that she has “to be careful with what I say and how I talk about it. It wasn’t the best experience making it and I kind of got to this place, that I still live in, that I don’t want to act unless I’m doing stuff that I feel like I have to do.”
“After making that film, I kind of decided, ‘OK, I’m just not going to act anymore unless it’s something that I feel that way about.’”
Rooney additionally defined that when she met director David Fincher whereas starring within the basic 2010 movie The Social Network, she modified her thoughts about her profession trajectory.
“I got an audition for The Social Network, which was a small part but it was an amazing scene, and then I didn’t work again from that until I think Dragon Tattoo,” she defined.
“David didn’t need to audition me for [Dragon Tattoo] as a result of he didn’t suppose I used to be proper for it primarily based on what I did in The Social Network and I sort of insisted they put me on tape anyway so I did, after which he needed to battle actually laborious for me to get the half as a result of the studio didn’t need me for it.”
“It was a particular actual turning level in my life and my profession.”
Rooney went on to say that, in the course of the year-long course of of creating Dragon Tattoo, Fincher grew to become her “mentor” and impressed her to proceed on along with her appearing profession.
“He took such great care to make sure that I knew that I had a voice and that my opinion meant something. He constantly was empowering me, which I think really affected the rest of my choices thereafter.”
Listen to your complete interview right here.