After working on the remake of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” in 2010, which Rooney Mara described as “not a wonderful experience,” the actress almost gave up acting, according to the revelations made by Rooney Mara.
Women Talking, a film about an isolated religious community, has been gathering interest in the awards industry, and the Oscar-nominated actress is slated to star in the film alongside Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley. Women Talking is receiving positive discussion for its potential to win accolades.
Before this, she appeared in Nightmare Alley in 2021; however, she had a three-year break before to that time.
The actress, who is now 37 years old and has revealed that her decision to reevaluate her relationship with acting and the jobs she decided to do was prompted by her experience on the early seasons of A Nightmare on Elm Street when she was just starting out in her career.
‘A few years before [The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo], I had done a Nightmare on Elm Street remake, which was not a great experience,’ she explained.
‘I have to be careful with what I say and how I talk about it. It wasn’t the best experience making it and I kind of got to this place, that I still live in, that I don’t want to act unless I’m doing stuff that I feel like I have to do.


‘So after making that film, I decided, “OK, I’m just not going to act anymore unless it’s something that I feel that way about”,’ she said on the Launch Left podcast with her partner’s sister, Rain Phoenix.
Mara, who will play Audrey Hepburn in a forthcoming biography, played in the horror film as Nancy Holbrook opposite Kyle Gallner, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, and Jackie Earle Haley as Freddie Krueger. Mara will also play the role of Hepburn in the film.
The actress then went on to discuss how David Fincher had a significant influence on her career, as her subsequent audition was for a small part as Mark Zuckerberg’s (Jesse Eisenberg) ex-girlfriend Erica in The Social Network, and she was cast in the role after the director was convinced by her “amazing scene.”
Her next job would be working with director David Fincher again for her breakthrough role in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. She revealed that he didn’t want her to audition for the role at first ‘because he thought I wasn’t right for it based on what I did in The Social Network.’ She went on to say that he eventually changed his mind.
She recalled: ‘I kind of insisted that they put me on tape anyway, and so I did, and then he had to fight really hard for me to get the part because the studio didn’t want me for it. It was a definite real turning point in my life and my career.’
Mara also said that the director ‘really took me under his wing’ and ‘became my mentor in a lot of ways’.
‘He took such great care to make sure that I knew that I had a voice and that my opinion meant something. He constantly was empowering me, which I think really affected the rest of my choices thereafter,’ she said.
Since 2016, Mara has been in a relationship with Joaquin Phoenix, who plays the Joker in the film.
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River Lee, who was born in August of 2020 and was named after one of Phoenix’s deceased brothers, is the couple’s child.