The official site for “A Nightmare on Elm Street” has been updated to include two new stills of Rooney as Nancy. View them in the gallery below.

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As promised, here are a bunch of caps of Rooney in the new “A Nightmare on Elm Street” trailer, in glorious HD 1080p. There were some really quick flashes in the middle but I think I caught them all. Enjoy!

088 x Movie Images – A Nightmare on Elm Street: Trailer #2 [HD] Captures

HD screen captures to come tomorrow morning. I’m off to bed. Enjoy!!!

As we reported earlier, a couple of new TV Spots for “A Nightmare on Elm Street” would debut with the Olympics, and here they are! They only feature brief new glimpses of Rooney, but the full theatrical trailer releasing tonight should have plenty more of her (we hope anyway). TV Spots and captures are below.

013 x Movie Images – A Nightmare on Elm Street: TV Spots Captures

Tomorrow night, at the stroke of midnight (PST), the official full length theatrical trailer for Rooney’s movie “A Nightmare on Elm Street” will debut online. We will of course bring you the video and caps as soon as it becomes available, so check back soon!!

What a great day for “Nightmare on Elm Street” stuff! We’ve just got our hands on the very first official still of Rooney as Nancy with Kyle Gallner as Quentin in a bloody scene from the movie. Hopefully there’s lots more goodies headed our way!

001 x Movie Images – A Nightmare on Elm Street – Promotional Stills

Here is another set visit/interview, this time from IESB.net. All the online journalists who visited must have all gotten the OK to post their articles today.

IESB was on set with a group of online journalists. Read the entire on set interview with A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET cast member Rooney Mara who plays “Nancy Thompson”,

Q: Were you a fan of the original film?

Rooney Mara: I was. I saw it when I was 12 years old, I think. I was at a slumber party, and the older sister of the girl I was friends with was watching it with her friends and I saw it, and I really wish I hadn’t seen it when I was 12 because it really scarred me for life. I remember Tina’s death just freaked me out. I had that image in my head for years, her flying across the room.

Q: Is it weird being in the remake now after all that?

RM: Yeah, it is. It definitely is. I’m glad I don’t have to do that, though [laughs].

Q: You get to survive.

RM: Yes.

Q: Was it overwhelming to take on the role of Nancy, who’s sort of the original “final girl”?

RM: It’s definitely a lot of pressure, but our movie and our Nancy are quite different, so I don’t feel so much like you can compare the two.

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Latino Review visited the Chicago set of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and have just posted their experience, which includes interviews with Rooney and other cast and crew members. And remember we have a new trailer and some new TV spots to look forward to this week!

Seated towards the middle of the factory and away from the sights and sounds of filming, we wait around the table for cast and crewmembers to speak with us.

One of the first is Rooney Mara, who, fresh from shooting a scene, walks across the factory in impossibly high boots that would surely pose a problem when running from Freddy Krueger. Her cheery disposition stands in contrast to her character Nancy Thompson, who moments before was yelling at her friend and love interest Quentin to wake up or risk a showdown with the nightmare-stalking Krueger.

“She’s described as ‘goth,’” explains Mara, but “She’s goth in the sense that she’s, quite obviously, disturbed and quiet and keeps to herself and can’t really open up to people or connect with people. And she feels really alone in the world because of things that happened to her when she was younger. But throughout the movie you see that change, and you see her grow, so it’s a good arc.”

Today, every bit of Nancy’s character design and Mara’s look reflect that realness and depth. Nancy isn’t a token hot teen in the latest fashions despite her boots. She wears dark colors, purple nail polish, and a baggy cardigan that seems to swallow her slight figure. And while there’s no denying that Mara is a gorgeous woman in real life, as Nancy her eyes are darkened and her hair stringy from depriving herself of sleep.

“Rooney was someone who, to us, embodied that kind of natural, real girl thing that Nancy had in the original,” says Fuller. “Freddy Krueger is the star of the film, and everyone else has to be able to have the chops to keep up with him, but that’s the star of the movie. For all of the actors, we tried to find kids who had the chops to be really good.”

And those chops extend to emulating her character’s self-imposed insomnia.

“If we have a really intense scene, I try not to let myself get more than three hours of sleeps, and after a few days that’s quite draining,” she tells us. “Last night when I went home I was like a wreck. I was really spent, because yesterday was really intense, because it was all day one of the most intense scenes in the movie, crying the whole day. Seventy-five takes of just bawling my eyes out.”

Source (full feature): Latino Review

Rooney is featured in a new issue of Paper Magazine, and it includes a gorgeous new photoshoot picture.

After filming Tanner Hall, the debut film by writing/directing team Tatiana von Furstenberg and Francesca Gregorini, actress Patricia “Tricia” Mara took on a new identity, dropping her first name to become Rooney Mara. “I never really liked my first name,” Mara says. (Rooney is her middle name.) “I never felt like a Tricia. And Rooney is more memorable.”

As Patricia growing up in the tony Westchester town of Bedford, Mara says she was a “loner” who shied away from team sports, even though in her family, football was everything. (Her great-grandfather Tim Mara founded the New York Giants.) “I was dragged to football games every week,” she says. “I just started liking it a few years ago, but I really hated it growing up.”

For a different, less all-American experience, after highschool Mara lived in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. From there, she headed to Kenya where she started a non-profit children”s relief charity called Faces of Kibera. “I needed to get out of the bubble of Westchester. I wanted to finish high school and experience other parts of the world before I tried acting.” Mara moved to Los Angeles two years ago, staying at first with her sister Kate Mara (also an actress). And since then, she”s been working non-stop. After she sexes up Tanner Hall as the precocious teen Fernanda, she”ll star in Youth in Revolt (with Michael Cera) and The Social Network, David Fincher”s buzzy Justin Timberlake-starring feature about the creators of Facebook. “In the movie I break up with Mark [Zuckerberg], which is the inspiration for him to start Facebook,” she explains. Good luck finding Mara on the social networking site. “I do have a Facebook account, but I very rarely use it,” she says. “I have my profile on private — so no one can find me.”