Here’s Rooney and Daniel on Le Grand Journal in Paris, plus an extra interview they did on the same day. They are dubbed, but you can still hear them underneath the translation. :) Caps soon!

Rooney is nearly unrecognizable in a new photoshoot in the February issue of W Magazine, which features the Best Performances on film in 2011. Congrats to Rooney on being in the company of people like Brad Pitt, Charlize Theron, “Dragon Tattoo” co-star Christoper Plummer and fellow rising stars like Elizabeth Olsen and Shailene Woodley. I’ll try to get an HQ scan up soon!

Rooney Mara In The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
“For a year, I was Lisbeth Salander—I only wore black; I lived her life. Before this movie, I didn’t even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and my eyebrow and nipple were pierced. The only thing that concerned me was riding the motorcycle. I wasn’t nervous about the anal rape scene, but the motorcycle had me worried.”

001 x Photoshoots – 2012: W Magazine

Here’s Rooney being interviewed on the red carpet at the Golden Globes tonight. Refresh this post for new additions!

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So unfortunately the National Board of Review Gala, where Rooney won Breakthrough Performance last night, is not televised nor put up online, so here are a bunch of new pictures from the event (including Rooney making her speech and posing with her award backstage) and also some highlights from people who attended.

072 x Public Appearances – National Board of Review Awards Gala – Arrivals

004 x Public Appearances – National Board of Review Awards Gala – Inside/Ceremony

004 x Public Appearances – National Board of Review Awards Gala – Press Room

Plummer then returned to the stage, this time as a presenter of one of the night’s two best breakthrough performance awards to his The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo co-star Rooney Mara, who is widely regarded as being on-the-bubble for a best actress Oscar nomination. Mara’s standing in the minds of many attendees was boosted immensely by both Plummer’s uncharacteristically gushing introduction (“She recently burst upon the scene with a force Joan of Arc would have envied … with a fearlessness and courage I have not seen in a hell of a long time”) and her own eloquent, humble and heartfelt acceptance speech (“I’m more nervous about standing up here than I was about anything I had to do in the movie; I don’t know if you’ve seen the film, but that’s saying a lot”).

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Elsewhere, Breakthrough Directorial Debut winner J.C. Chandor (“Margin Call”) became visibly emotional after delivering a four-minute (!) speech, Breakthough Performance winner Rooney Mara sang praises of her “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” director David Fincher, despite him urging her not to do so via email a few hours earlier, and presenter Naomi Watts thanked her director on “The Ring,” Gore Verbinski (there to accept the Best Animated Feature award for “Rango”), for teaching her how to scream.

Source: IndieWire

Here’s Rooney continuing to promote “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” on CBS this morning! The interview is below, caps will be up soon!

Great video interview Rooney did with Rolling Stones movie critic Peter Travers for his ABC News show, Popcorn.

Here’s a new Q&A interview Rooney did for The LA Times, along with a new photoshoot picture. Enjoy!

In a pleated white dress, her jet-black bangs neatly trimmed, Golden Globe nominee Rooney Mara looks nothing like Lisbeth Salander as she relaxes in the drawing room of New York’s Crosby Street Hotel. But it doesn’t take long for the 26-year-old to show the resolve that helped land her the coveted lead role in the U.S. version of Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” vaulting over a scrum of top Hollywood actresses. Mara previously was best known for her opening tête-à-tête with Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network.” Now, her multiply-pierced face as the fierce hacker is everywhere. The piercings in her eyebrow and ears are gone now — though she has said one other, seen in a topless teaser poster released earlier this year, is still in place — but there’s plenty of steel still in her even and unflinching gaze.

There’s a debate about whether Lisbeth has Asperger’s syndrome. What do you think?

People ask me, “What did you decide?” As the character, she doesn’t know, so I didn’t make a decision either way. It’s clear from the book that everyone is diagnosing her with that, and on paper it sounds like she does. I went to a school in Sherman Oaks called the Help Group for kids with autism and Asperger’s, just to see. I got to talk to one girl in particularly who was around the same age and who people said reminded them of the character. It was incredible talking to her. When she was done talking to you, she was done. There was no sign of it; I just wasn’t there anymore. I think Lisbeth does that a lot.

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Here’s a great new Q&A excerpt from Entertainment Weekly. The full interview will be in the new issue, out this Friday.

Rooney Mara talks future projects, promoting ‘Dragon Tattoo’: ‘Everyone is like, So, the rape scene. Was that hard?’

Rooney Mara’s Golden Globe-nominated portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has won near-universal critical praise and turned her into one of Hollywood’s hottest young actresses. We sat down with her shortly before the film opened for a Q&A that’s running in the next EW, which hits newsstands this Friday. Here are some parts of the interview that we didn’t have room for in the magazine.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Last time we last talked you said one of the hardest scenes to shoot was the one where you’re in the subway and have to fight a guy who steals your computer. [At the time of this interview, Mara still hadn’t seen the finished film.] You spent three grueling 10-hour days doing nothing but running and fighting. In the movie that scene is over in a flash…

ROONEY MARA: Yeah, exactly. I’ve seen that scene because I had to do ADR [additional dialogue recording] for it, and it’s like, f—, that’s three days worth of work? That scene was not like that when I shot it. It’s hard to see [a film when it's finished], because you want to have your own memory and experience of it, and when the movie’s finished it’s never the same. It’s really scary to see yourself. I’m really hard on myself. You always look back and wish you’d done things differently. You see every little thing that other people don’t notice. It’s just a very weird experience. I always wish I can just go back and start over, reshoot the whole thing. You watch a scene and think, Oh I would have done that differently. I think David always feels that way too, which is maybe why we work well together. We would be reshooting until the end of the world if we could. [Laughs]

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Thanks to Dee at Stylist.co.uk for sharing this interview she did with Rooney!

Interview: Rooney Mara
Stylist meets the girl who won Hollywood’s most coveted role

In Stockholm, the sun went down half an hour ago. It’s 3pm. I’ve just completed the Millennium Tour – an hour-long walk around the city where parts of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling trilogy (65million copies sold in 46 countries) were set

The darkness and the medieval beauty of the city, along with the memory of the books’ violence, have unnerved me as I return to the hotel where I’ll be interviewing Rooney Mara; the relatively unknown actress cast as Lisbeth Salander in the upcoming, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Fans of Larsson (who died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 50 in 2004, shortly before the books were published) will know what I mean when I say Rooney is “very Salander”. For those of you who don’t, let me explain. Salander is a slight, tattooed, multi-pierced, social outcast deemed legally incompetent by the state. Sitting before me now, Rooney is neither tattooed, nor multi-pierced and seems entirely capable of looking after herself; but she is very guarded. She’s petite and her short hair dyed jet black makes her look even paler. When she shakes my hand, her touch is so delicate, I fear I may have broken her fingers. We start the interview; her arms are folded. She’s prone to one-word answers – and don’t even think about asking her about her boyfriend, Curb Your Enthusiasm director Charlie McDowell. The room is eerily quiet; I’m starting to worry this won’t go well.

After three very successful Swedish film adaptations of the trilogy – starring Sherlock Holmes 2’s Noomi Rapace – were made just two years ago, it was surprising when The Social Network’s director David Fincher announced in 2010 he would make an American version. Apart from one omission, Fincher’s much slicker version takes in every twist and turn of the novel, something which nudges the film towards the two-and-a-half hour mark …but which keeps you spellbound for every minute. And Rooney is brilliant. Emotionally (and physically) naked for much of the film, she deserves an Oscar nod. Maybe that’s what’s worrying her. The 26-year-old’s life is set to change dramatically.

The daughter of New York Giants football scout Timothy Christopher Mara, Rooney began acting at 20 and appeared in the fairly forgettable Urban Legends and Nightmare On Elm Street remake, before landing the role of Mark Zuckerberg’s girlfriend Erica in Fincher’s 2010 Oscar-winning The Social Network. Fincher says he didn’t originally consider her because she was so compassionate and giving in his previous film, he couldn’t see her as Salander. The competition was tough: Scarlett Johansson’s audition nearly clinched it; Ellen Page filmed her own screen test; Carey Mulligan said she was obsessed with getting the role. But, after getting an audition (and deliberately turning up hungover for the screen test), Rooney was officially attached to the project; her long hair promptly chopped off and dyed black, her eyebrows bleached.

As our interview finishes, Rooney’s parting handshake is strong and my suspicion that she’s not difficult, merely uncomfortable with talking about herself, is confirmed. But having signed up to play one of the most famous literary characters of the past decade, opposite Daniel Craig, Rooney’s days in the shadows are well and truly over.

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Unfortunately, this is the whole thing, it’s super short. :( Caps soon!