Rooney Mara appears on the cover of the February issue of Vogue magazine with dazzling and mysterious looks.
Mara strikes an elegant pose clad in a net-like crimson colored dress on the Vogue cover. Her make-up seems to be nothing more than a tint of lip gloss. The 27-year-old who appeared as Lisbeth Salander in "The Girl with the Dragon," shares her experiences working on different projects and adapting different roles, also expresses how appearing on the red carpet is a "nightmare" and insights of her mysterious life.
After her work in "The Girl with the Dragon," Mara has been busy with four projects in hand. Last year, she worked in an upcoming science fiction romance "Her" by Spike Jonze and then worked with David Lowery in an independent film "Ain't Them Bodies Saints." In the meantime, she worked with Steven Soderbergh in a psychological thriller movie "Side Effects."
Here are some highlights of her interview with Vogue:
On adapting different roles:
"It's been very strange, jumping from one character to the next. All four of them were very intense experiences. . . . I really feel sometimes like those things are happening to me. Obviously they're not. But it's hard going from one to the next."
"And I'm hypercritical of myself. Anytime I see anything I've done, I wish that it had gone differently because you figure it out as you go along, and you're always discovering new things. I'd probably feel that way about anything that I did."
On being just the way she wants:
"For Dragon Tattoo, I had eight different premieres, this many different photo calls. It's a lot to plan for. It's not like you can just show up. The thing is, it's kind of an annoying part of the job-because I'm not a model, and I don't want to be. I didn't try to be a style icon. I'm just not that interested in that world. But it does matter, and either I can fight that or I just have to accept that it is a part of my job, and I may as well wear things that I like and that represent me."
On describing experience at the red-carpet as a nightmare:
"[It's] a nightmare! It's a panic attack waiting to happen. I don't even like people to sing 'Happy Birthday' to me. When we wrap a film and everyone claps and cheers, I turn red. And then I have to walk out onto the middle of this carpet and there are all these photographers, and they're all screaming at you. And usually there's a party at the other end of it, so it's not even like I have solace at the end of the carpet! It's like then I have to walk into my other nightmare!"
On the things she would want to change in her:
"I like to be alone a lot. I think part of the reason is I'm like a sponge. If I'm in a group, I get exhausted immediately picking up everyone's feelings. If they're sad, I take it all on, and I can feel it. I'll go to the grocery store or something, and come home and be exhausted because I've really picked up someone else's sadness or shame . . . anything. It really affects me. I've had to figure out a way to turn that off, and that makes me a little bit more guarded."
On spending time away from work:
"I'm a workaholic. I really don't know how to be relaxed. But it's kind of a great feeling to not know what I'm doing. I also just want to take a break and not think about it at all. I think it's good for actors to have other things that they're interested in. . . . So I'm trying to figure out what those things are."