Rooney Mara has exploded onto the forefront of the Hollywood scene, her appearance in The Social Network lead to her nabbing the highly coveted role of Lisbeth Salander in the American adaption of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, beating out actresses such as Natalie Portman, Carey Mulligan and Emily Watson. The images of Mara displayed a dedicated actress who had completely transformed from a young woman to a nearly anorexic-looking investigative-hacker-punk and has grabbed worldwide attention.
I applaud her acting ability. However, I recently stumbled upon an image of her and Ryan Gosling on the set of Terrance Malick’s Tree of Life follow-up Lawless in a leather jacket and jet-black hair as some sort of groupie - not too far off from Lisbeth.
So, I think there is reason to be worried. It’s great that she’s nabbing high profile roles, but is she going to stick with these social rebels and punks? One of those typecast actresses who have lost all sight of range? Will we ever see a normal Rooney Mara ever again? Or is that era of her life gone? Anorexic and goth? What happened to being the nice brunette everyone knew and loved???
God, I feel like a terrible gossip writer. I’m not even trying to do anything remotely similar to that. I just want to see Rooney Mara look like Rooney Mara.
