Here’s a brief blurb about Rooney being cast in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” in the new issue of People magazine. Since she’s a virtual unknown we’ll probably get a lot more of these “get to know Rooney” features! Please remember to not archive our scans. Thanks and enjoy!

001 x Scans – September 6, 2010: People

Here’s a great new feature on Rooney from the NY Post, including reactions from people who’ve worked with her and her family regarding her big break.

What’s so special about Rooney Mara?
Who’s that Girl With the Tattoo?

She’s a virtual unknown, but she landed the role of the decade.

Rooney Mara, 25, will play the part coveted by every A-list actress in Hollywood: the punk, bisexual hacker named Lisbeth Salander in the David Fincher-directed remake of Swedish thriller “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”

And speaking of tattoos, some are comparing her to another once-unknown young beauty. “I worked with Angelina Jolie 13 years ago, before she was famous, and Mara reminded me of the same thing,” says director Samuel Bayer, who directed Mara in her only major role thus far, in last April’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”

What’s most astonishing, though, is the list of names she reportedly beat out: Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Ellen Page and Carey Mulligan among them.

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Thanks once again to the awesome David JR for sending us this great video he shot of Rooney attending a charity gala for Kenya, hosted by her organization Faces of Kibera and several other charities benefiting the people of Kenya. To help the cause, there is an auction happening right now where you can bid on some amazing items, all the while helping the cause. Be sure to take a look!

Below is the video of Rooney and her fellow champions of Kenya talking about their respective charities and experiences.

138 x Screen Captures – 05.26.10: 1st Annual Kenya Charity Gala

This is a pretty amusing Q&A Rooney did with PopStar while on the NOES set. I like her wit!

Rooney Mara looks exhausted, and that makes sense. Last June, the pettite actress was on the set of A Nightmare On Elm Street, then in production at a bookstore in Chicago. Mara, the sister of Kate Mara and a rising star in her own right, plays the sleep-deprived Nancy Thompson, who’s on the run from the infamous and decrepit Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley), a serial killer who worms his way into people’s dreams and essentially slays them from within.

The April 30 release, of course, is a remake of Wes Craven’s 1984 horror flick of the same name, which cast Heather Langenkamp as Nancy and Robert Englund as Freddy. Johnny Depp played Nancy’s boyfriend in the old film, while Kyle Gallner has that role in the reboot. ScreenStar was among a handful of visiting journalists on the Elm Street set that day in June, and here’s some of what Mara had to say.

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Rooney spoke briefly to The Press Association at the premiere last night:

Nightmare On Elm Street’s leading lady Rooney Mara insists shooting the remake of the 1984 horror classic was far from terrifying.

“Except for a few times where I was scared, it was not that scary but definitely exhausting, for sure,” she explained at the film’s Hollywood premiere.

The 25-year-old plays a new ‘Nancy’ in the movie, heading up a talented ensemble of young stars taking on the new Freddy Krueger (played by Watchmen actor Jackie Earle Haley).

“I was very nervous, but after sitting down with the director and talking about it, our version of Nancy was just so different that I had to forget about all the pressure and expectations and go with the Nancy that we created.”

If the reboot of the franchise proves a box office hit, Rooney confirmed Nancy will return in the next movie.

“Yes, I have one more if this one’s a success,” she said.

However, the actress admitted she wouldn’t usually pay to watch a scare-fest like Nightmare On Elm Street.

“I saw the original when I was 12. There was like three years when I was quite young that I loved horror films, but I don’t see them ever now, I don’t like being scared or watching them,” she laughed.

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Collider is the first one out the gate with posting their video junket interview with Rooney, Thomas Dekker and Kyle Gallner. Rooney looks so pretty!! Clip and captures are below.

102 x Screen Captures – 04.26.10: “A Nightmare on Elm Street” Press Junket

Thanks so much to David who sent us some awesome red carpet, Q&A and After-Party footage he took of Rooney at the Gen Art “Tanner Hall” premiere. Check it out below!

240 x Screen Captures – 04.12.10: Gen Art “Tanner Hall” Premiere

Rooney talked to MTV about her role in “The Social Network” while attending WonderCon. And sounds like she’s got another project lined up for the summer! Can’t wait!!

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