Rooney Mara has mentioned that engaged on the A Nightmare On Elm Street remake in 2010 nearly ended her performing profession.
The actor, who has gone on to be nominated for 2 Oscars since, mentioned that making the Samuel Bayer led movie was “not a good experience”. Mara went on to inform LaunchLeft podcast [as per IndieWire] that she wasn’t “going to act anymore” until she felt a sure method a couple of venture.
She instructed the podcast: “Just a few years earlier than [The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo], I had finished [the] A Nightmare on Elm Street remake, which was not expertise. I’ve to watch out with what I say and the way I discuss it. It wasn’t the very best expertise 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. So 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’.”
Moving the story on, she revealed that it was David Fincher that helped her to persevere within the trade. The Social Network director solid Mara within the 2010 film, after which went on to work along with her in smash-hit The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Mara mentioned: “I obtained an audition for The Social Network, which was a small half however it was an incredible scene, after which I didn’t work once more from that till I believe Dragon Tattoo. David didn’t wish to audition me for it as a result of he didn’t suppose I used to be proper for it based mostly on what I did in The Social Network.
“I kind of insisted they put me on tape anyway so I did, and then he had to fight really hard for me to get the part because the studio didn’t want me for it. It was a definite real turning point in my life and my career.”
Despite these preliminary wobbles with Fincher, Mara credit Fincher for “empowering” her inside Hollywood. She defined that working with the director on each movies modified how she seen the performing enterprise, saying: “David actually took me below his wing. He grew to become my mentor in a number of methods.
“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.”