Rooney Mara

[ElleCee]

She's bland and is believing her press far too much. I don't imagine we'll see much of her other than this character, which she seems to be recreating herself around. This is a little too Katie Holmes/Tom Cruise for me.

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Dec 16, 2011 14:16:14 GMT -4 petitesuite said:

Seriously. There are plenty of other reasons to criticize her (plus Patricia is pretty bad, and I say that being best friends with a twenty-year-old Patricia who does not particularly care for her name) and I will choose one of those. It's like a buffet!

Exactly! This chick is annoying in so many different ways, using her middle name is way down at the bottom of the list of reasons to dislike her.

And I have a co-worker named Patricia who also hates her name, she insists on everyone calling her Tricia.

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Dec 16, 2011 14:30:46 GMT -4 Mutagen said:

Dec 14, 2011 23:22:21 GMT -4 kali said:

She disses SVU in that interview too.

I realize that's probably not most actors' dream role, but she always sounds so ungrateful for having to lower herself to do less than A-list work on her way to the top. She had some quotes about how much she hated Nightmare on Elm Street too.

Yeah, she sounds really entitled and unpleasant. You mean, gasp, you had to start with crappy jobs and work your way up just like in every other profession on earth???

I could be wrong, but I don't recall Scarlett Johansson getting so snitty about her previous roles, even at the height of her Dumb Quotes phase.

Wow, what an obnoxious, entitled cow. What really gets to me is that her version of a 'crappy job' (A Nightmare on Elm Street) probably earned her more than most people would make her in a year. I know its not most actors dream job but stilll... Jesus.

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I think it's hilarious that on the cover the caption is "The Girl with the Pierced Nipple". I get the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo parallel but...really? That's what you put on the cover?

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I'm not necessarily against actors acknowledging that this or that was not their best work, or that something they did sucked. But IMO when Robert Pattinson says that he hated the character of Edward and thus played him "like a manic-depressive who hates himself" it's funny, because 1) it's true and 2) it makes him seem like he's in on the joke - he knows Twilight's not good, but he also seems like he's not taking himself too seriously. Now Nightmare on Elm Street was also not good, and SVU is frequently ridiculous, but in Mara's case it comes across like the problem was all this terrible movie/show being forced upon her when she's so much better than that. Possibly she is, but no one's seen that as of yet, and it just makes her seem like she IS taking herself too seriously. Like, if she gives a great performance and blows everyone away, no one'll be judging her based on the crappy parts she took early in her career. But she needs to shut up for five minutes and show, not tell.

She just seems really insecure, like all those teen pop stars who tried to disown their teen-pop music because hard rock/R&B/deep folksy acoustic music is their "REAL" sound and they feel like they have to let everyone know that THEY know how much their early stuff sucks to prove that now they're grown-up and serious and have good taste. It's overkill to be so defensive. The best thing she could do is calm down and let the mystique of the role work for her.

[ross]

Dec 17, 2011 23:03:00 GMT -4 @marchingpenguin said:

She just seems really insecure, like all those teen pop stars who tried to disown their teen-pop music because hard rock/R&B/deep folksy acoustic music is their "REAL" sound and they feel like they have to let everyone know that THEY know how much their early stuff sucks to prove that now they're grown-up and serious and have good taste. It's overkill to be so defensive. The best thing she could do is calm down and let the mystique of the role work for her.

That's a fair point but I find it difficult to sympathise with her (or frankly even wish her well in her career.) Assholism is no less assholism for being born from insecurity.

Maybe its because I'm an extra and thus get a worms eye view of all the hard work that goes into making a film but I find her sort of attitude obnoxious in the extreme. There's a world of difference between seeing a role as just another paycheck or even laughing off a silly role in a stupid movie and acting as if it seriously demeaned her to appear in the likes of Nightmare on Elm Street.

[jaghetersimon]

I think it's strange how hard she's trying to seem exactly like Lisbeth in her real life--suggesting that she's equally as dark, strange, etc. Even if this was true, why should people be impressed by her "acting" as a character she claims to so closely resemble?

In contrast, when I see Noomi Rapace in interviews, I'm struck by how animated and warm she seems, which makes her portrayal of Lisbeth even more impressive (in my opinion). She's not "playing herself," which is the weird subtext of some of Mara's interviews.

Basically I don't get her PR strategy. The movie hasn't even opened and she's already getting a bad rep on the internet.

[aibohphobia]

Dec 17, 2011 23:27:46 GMT -4 jaghetersimon said:

I think it's strange how hard she's trying to seem exactly like Lisbeth in her real life--suggesting that she's equally as dark, strange, etc. Even if this was true, why should people be impressed by her "acting" as a character she claims to so closely resemble?

In contrast, when I see Noomi Rapace in interviews, I'm struck by how animated and warm she seems, which makes her portrayal of Lisbeth even more impressive (in my opinion). She's not "playing herself," which is the weird subtext of some of Mara's interviews.

Basically I don't get her PR strategy. The movie hasn't even opened and she's already getting a bad rep on the internet.

Yes, Mara rubs me the wrong way already for the quotes about how she was above her first acting jobs and her weird relationship with Fincher, but her real life personality becoming like her character is what makes me want to roll my eyes the most. Like she's always been so weird and hardcore just like Avril Lavigne or one of those singers ross was thinking about.

Plus, if she wants to be thought of this great actress, I don't get why she's not dissociating herself from the character more instead of trying to act like she has so much in common with the character. The Rapace comparison is perfect because I find what she did a lot more impressive knowing she's not that way in real life than whatever Mara is trying to do. Unless Mara's behavior has to do with the two other sequels they're making and her trying to show how method she as an actress by staying in character during the filming of all 3, but it comes across as her being a really big poseur.

[ElleCee]

What amused me is one picture with her as the character and a tattoo artist fake tattooing her ass, she's talking about the artist and how he's in the movie and he's the one that pierced her. She chose him because he was the least harmful looking of all the choices. Yeah. Nothing says poser like choosing your tattoo artist based on him being not harmful looking. What a child playing at being hardcore. You nailed it, she's the Avril Lavigne of acting.

[Mutagen]

Dec 17, 2011 23:03:00 GMT -4 @marchingpenguin said:

I'm not necessarily against actors acknowledging that this or that was not their best work, or that something they did sucked. But IMO when Robert Pattinson says that he hated the character of Edward and thus played him "like a manic-depressive who hates himself" it's funny, because 1) it's true and 2) it makes him seem like he's in on the joke - he knows Twilight's not good, but he also seems like he's not taking himself too seriously. Now Nightmare on Elm Street was also not good, and SVU is frequently ridiculous, but in Mara's case it comes across like the problem was all this terrible movie/show being forced upon her when she's so much better than that.

Yeah, exactly. To be honest, I can forgive a lot if the person has a sense of humor about it. Like, Pattinson's quotes about Twilight get a pass because he's usually pretty funny. Even Halle Berry showed a sense of humor by collecting her Catwoman Razzie in person.

I think it helps if there's an element of self-deprecation, as opposed to "OMG that role was sooooooo beneath me," which seems to be RM's attitude about her early work.