Rooney Mara Shows her Feminine Side in Vogue

After landing the role of the dark and brooding Lisbeth Salander in the upcoming The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo movie, Rooney Mara toughed up her image. However, the 26-year-old actress appears to have much more to offer outside her role. Posing for the next month’s US Vogue magazine, Mara shows off her mystical beauty and much, much, more…

Mara Rooney looked very doll like in the shot in which her pale skin and blue eyes were set off by her black hair – dyed especially for her role as the boy-like Lisbeth Salander.

‘One of the things that make our version that much more heartbreaking,’ says Mara, ‘is that even though I am playing a 24-year-old, I look much younger. I look like a child.’

When she was asked if she felt she had to become unhealthy thin for the role with slight hesitation before responding she said: ‘Umm… not really.’

‘Before, I dressed much girlier,’ she goes on saying. ‘A lot of blush-colored things. Now I literally roll out of bed and put on whatever is there. I have really enjoyed being a boy this last year.’

But the American actress as well revealed that she couldn’t recognize herself after the beauty team made her a complete physical transformation that included dying her hair,  cutting her hair short with shaved sides and as well bleaching her eyebrows. The piercings have just completed her look for her Lisbeth Salander role.

‘The eyebrows were the biggest shock because that really changed my face, and I didn’t recognize myself. But I was fine because I knew it was going to be really helpful for getting into character.’

 

But despite the differences between Mara’s character and herself, the actress also draw some similarities between the two.

‘I am very slow to warm,’ Mara says. ‘I’ve always been sort of a loner. I didn’t play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.’

‘I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.’

This is why Rooney Mara hopes she will be able to retain her privacy after the film premieres.

‘That kind of fame is not something I ever wanted for myself,’ she says.

 

‘It just so happens that this huge, gigantic monster of a film came around that also happens to have the most incredible character that I ever could have dreamed up.

‘But my fear with a movie like this is the kind of exposure you get from it,’ she continues.

‘I think that can be death to an actor. The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It’s unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that. After this, I won’t be able to be that girl again.’

The full article you can find in the November’s issue of Vogue available on newsstands from October 25.