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

A bunch of new outtakes from Rooney’s recent shoot for The Los Angeles Times have been added to the gallery. So pretty!

014 x Photoshoots – 2012: The Los Angeles Times

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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And now here’s Rooney’s behind the scenes on her Allure cover shoot for the January issue. So pretty. As always, will try to get scans up as soon as it’s out!

096 x Screen Captures – Photoshoot: January 2012 – Allure

Here are all the images from inside Rooney’s cover shoot for Dazed and Confused magazine. So gorgeous! Hopefully we’ll have some HQ scans of the full article soon as well.

006 x Photoshoot – 2012: Dazed and Confused

‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’: An Interview With Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, and David Fincher

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a movie for outcasts (and everyone else). Louise Roug sat down with Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, and David Fincher to discuss it.

It’s hard not to like Lisbeth Salander.

For one thing, her sense of purpose is admirable.
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“Horrible things happen to her. And she wanders home. And she sits there. She lights a cigarette, and she fumes. And you don’t know what’s going on in her head. The next time you see her, she’s got a Taser and a 30-pound chrome dildo, and she’s got a plan,” says David Fincher, who directed the much-anticipated movie The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. “You don’t need her to say, ‘This is not right what’s happened to me, and I have to make it right.’ You see her at the hardware store, buying tape and zip ties and black ink.”

From its opening credits–a slick but dark montage of bodies that come together only to pull apart, dissolve, or explode–to its final, gloomy scene, this is a movie about intimacy and control reflecting the grim but central idea of Stieg Larsson’s novel: a meeting between two people is invariably a struggle over power. In this universe, most men are monsters. But even those who aren’t end up causing hurt, out of thoughtlessness or neglect.

It’s a bleak depiction of human relationships, which, when done by Fincher, is unapologetically grown-up–and utterly entertaining.

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A huge new photoshoot selection. Rooney did this in New York to promote “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and over 70 images have been released and are below in the gallery!

073 x Photoshoot – 2011: New York Photoshoot

Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig leave marks on ‘Dragon Tattoo’

NEW YORK – For Rooney Mara, playing one of modern literature’s most indelible, unorthodox female creations has meant, to some extent, overcoming her inner Lisbeth Salander.

The breakout star of the much-anticipated film adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is still mastering the art of garrulousness. As with Salander, none of it comes naturally, or seamlessly, to her.

“I don’t enjoy talking about myself. I’m a quiet person. I like to observe much more than I like to be observed. It’s definitely exhausting and bizarre to have to talk about yourself all the time,” says Mara. “It’s a weird part of the job.”

But one, thanks to the attention being heaped on the film, she can’t avoid. Mara plays solitary, skittish hacker Salander in David Fincher’s film, based on the first of the late Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. Swedish journalist Larsson died in 2004 of a heart attack, and his best sellers were published posthumously; the three books already were turned into Swedish films, which were released in the USA.

Both in the books and in Fincher’s dark thriller, Salander hides a rapacious intelligence, coupled with ferocious loyalty, under a cloak of piercings, tattoos and tatty clothes. In the film, opening Tuesday, she and disgraced investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) search for a missing girl and unearth a serial killer.

During a joint interview in Manhattan, Mara and Craig are a study in contrasts. Mara, 26, is diffident and quiet, almost curled into herself at one end of a sofa. Craig, 43, outspoken and assertive, radiates confidence and decisiveness. On-screen, says Fincher, the two just fit together.

“Blomkvist is very vulnerable. Salander is very vulnerable and trying not to be — even in real life,” says Fincher. “They’re similar actors, in a way. They’re very feline and thoughtful. They were comfortable with one another.”

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Over 40 new images from that amazing promotional photoshoot Rooney did for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” that have been showing up in various magazines over the past couple of months have been added to the gallery. Enjoy!

044 x Movie Images – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Promotional Photoshoot

New outtakes from some older shoots Rooney did!

003 x Photoshoots – 2009: Nylon Magazine

002 x Photoshoots – 2010: Paper Magazine