14 DAY TRIAL // “Law & Order: SVU” remains to this day one of the most popular and time-enduring investigative series on TV. While fans may agree with it, Rooney Mara, the female lead in the upcoming “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” obviously feels differently about it.
Mara plays Lisbeth Salander in the highly anticipated film, a role that's already getting her some Oscar buzz. Not many probably remember her from back in 2006, when she starred in an episode of “Law & Order: SVU.”
She does, though and, in an interview with Allure magazine, she reveals the experience was one she doesn't hold dear.
Rooney can't possibly imagine how people would watch such an “awful” and “stupid” show.
“It was so awful. So stupid. People are obsessed with that show. I don’t get it. Me and my boyfriend – although I don’t look old enough to have a boyfriend – went and beat up these fat people, and at the end of the show you find out that I used to be obese and I hate fat people,” Rooney says of the episode she was in.
The story itself was dumb and she imagines all episodes are just as ridiculous, which leaves her baffled as to why people watch it in the first place.
“It’s ridiculous. Who would ever do that? Who would beat someone up because they’re fat? And as retribution, they [assaulted] her,” the actress further says.
Fans who didn't catch Rooney on “Law & Order: SVU,” might recognize her from another blockbuster, even though she doesn't get too much time in front of the camera: Erica Albright in “The Social Network,” the girl who breaks up with Mark Zuckerberg at the beginning of the movie, which basically motivates him to create Facebook.
For “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” which should be out in theaters in a matter of days, Mara sports an very different look, as fans of the original novel of the same name must already know: she's a punk-rock chick with plenty of piercings, a very short and odd-looking hairdo and, of course, plenty of tattoos.
“People always ask, 'Were you crying when they cut your hair?' And it didn’t freak me out at all. I was really happy to do it,” Mara says of having to undergo a complete makeover to become Lisbeth for the film.