Rooney Mara supports controversial 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' poster

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Rooney Mara supports controversial 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' poster

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The actress has opened up about shooting Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

13 August,2011 10:03 am

The Social Network star confessed that she found the books infamous rape scene to be among the most challenging moments to shoot, revealing that the filmmakers were desperate to capture it properly. It was incredibly intense. We did it all in a week - the week of Valentines Day, oddly enough, Mara told Entertainment Weekly.We were working 16 hours a day, and it was really, really challenging, not just emotionally but physically. But its such an important scene. We wanted to do everything we could to get that right. Mara went on to speak about the films controversial first poster, which was released back in June.Back in June, Sony released a controversial teaser poster for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo that featured a topless Rooney Mara and her exposed nipple ring. “I’ve already started to read posts about how hot Rooney [Mara] is with her nipple ring on full display.That’s enough to start my blood boiling,” wrote Women in Hollywood’s Melissa Silverstein in the wonderfully titled post The Pornification of Lisbeth Salander. “Lisbeth [Salander] is not supposed to be hot. That’s one of the reasons why we love her so much.” Responding to the general discontent for the first time, Mara doesn’t necessarily agree.“I was supportive of [the poster],” she told EW. “I understand why there was a lot of controversy. People have a hard time with strong females and with nudity. But I think had I been doing something incredibly violent on the poster, people wouldn’t have had a problem with it. That sort of says a lot about the world that we live in. It’s just a teaser poster. I think it did just that. It teased people.”Speaking of teasing, it seems that Mara had to go through quite a ringer to get David Fincher to cast her in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: two months of meetings and rehearsals, all which culminated in an ultimatum. “David sat me down and gave me this long speech about the part. Then he handed me his iPad, and it had the press release on it. He said, ‘I’m prepared to send this out. You have half an hour to let me know if you want the part.’”