The race for Best Actress has not yet gotten started but looking over the year’s slate, finding five nominees should be easier than it’s been in a while. It already looks like a competitive season, with most of the big performances yet to be seen. Already, Rooney Mara in Ain’t Them Bodies...
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Rooney Mara covers Vogue with Garbo-like allure and inside some tidbits about Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects, which will hit the Berlin Film Fest (Feb 7-17), it’s just been announced. In Side Effects, Mara takes on the role of the wife of a hapless insider trader, played by Channing Tatum. When he is released from prison, brimming with plans to rebuild their...
A few movie-writers have kicked over a hornet’s nest this week by spreading the impression that Rooney Mara wasn’t showing enough enthusiasm and deference to suit them. The perception seeped out like black mold, aggravating the fungus allergies the Twitterverse, so before long the strings of snot were blown far and wide. Once a story like that takes hold, it’s not...
The subject of attitude is being brought up once again as it relates to the Oscar race. We all know that expressions of gratitude is the key to impressing Academy voters. The more grateful you appear the happier they are about bestowing upon you their highest honor. It isn’t always only about gratitude, of course. But it can provide a significant edge when...
Deadline broke the story that newly Oscar-nominated Rooney Mara has been cast in the new Steven Soderbergh/Scott Z Burns joint where she’ll play the central character in the grips of drug addiction, sexual infidelity, and eventually murder. Press spasms about Blake Lively having been originally cast but then dropping out are attached to the story. Mara is one...
Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig cover the current issue of Film Comment. Not sure how long it’s been on newsstands but today is the first I’ve seen it. Inside, Amy Taubin talks about those rarest of movie heroines, “dauntless women who take no prisoners” (and namechecks Sasha Stone as one of those rarest of movie journalist, dauntless women who take...
Rooney Mara has got me by the balls. She’s tasered me, straddled my face, and inked her embodiment of Lisbeth Salander into my head. Unlike the scumbag recipient of her vengeance in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, I’m honored that she’s left her mark on me. I’m tagged and branded as a fiend for this film, and I don’t care who knows it, ...
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