\n\t\t\t\tRooney Mara stars in Columbia Pictures’ “THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO,” also starring Daniel Craig.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\nWhat was it that attracted you to this project?<\/strong><\/p>\nThose two characters, Lisbeth and Mikael. I think that Larrson did a really spectacular job of dramatising the incredibly inhumane things that [Lisbeth] overcomes and I think that Blomkvist appreciates that and can see that. And I like thrillers where the audience is in a slightly resistant place. Their sense of disbelief is much harder because often you put them in a situation that they don\u2019t want to be in and don\u2019t want to experience.<\/p>\n
The rape scene of Lisbeth is particularly difficult to digest – why do you think it is important to show that in such graphic detail?<\/strong><\/p>\nWell, rape is really horrific. I needed people to be horrified and offended by the act itself \u2013 so when people say to me \u201cGod! The rape in this movie is really upsetting\u201d my attitude is \u201cfuck yeah! It\u2019s supposed to be.\u201d There is a lot of stuff that happens in her back-story that is not part of the first book that informs who she is. So it has to be something that the audience experiences so that you realise that there is so much about her that Mikael doesn\u2019t know and so much that she has experienced first hand so that when she does drops her armour, it\u2019s a real time emotional thing where she allows him into her life and you have experienced what her life has been before that.<\/p>\n
For some, listening to Enya has always been a form of torture \u2013 do you feel the same way and is this why the song is played during a torture scene?<\/strong><\/p>\n[Laughs] It was a little sardonic. We were rehearsing the scene and I was explaining that I saw [the torturer] as an audiophile. I like the idea that it was in the late 70s or early 80s that he equipped his dungeon and everything had kind of stayed that way. And when we started talking about the music that should play, it was Daniel Craig who ran to his iPod and scrolled through it and said \u201cThis!\u201d and played Orinoco Flow by Enya. We all laughed ourselves silly and thought \u201cwe have to do it!\u201d<\/p>\n
We heard that Daniel had to get out of shape to play Mikael Blomkvist \u2013 but he still looks ripped!<\/strong><\/p>\nWell, his idea of out of shape is my idea of 10 years of sit-ups. He literally looks the same as he did in Layer Cake \u2013 so it\u2019s ridiculous this notion that he got out of shape for this movie, but I did ask him. I said \u201c[Mikael is] not a guy who runs. You smoke 3 packs of cigarettes a day.\u201d It\u2019s what Steig Larrson was talking about \u2013 this is a guy that is much more in his head than in his body. He can engage in the things that have happened with Lisbeth but purely intellectually. I always saw the journey as the story of a guy that says \u201cI know the evil that men can do\u201d and she will look at him square in the eye and say \u201cbuddy, you have no idea\u201d and by the end of the movie he is a changed man because he has seen it in a completely different way.<\/p>\n
Will you direct the sequel?<\/strong><\/p>\nOh god. I don\u2019t know that. Not this week!<\/p>\n
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is in cinemas December 26th 2011<\/em>
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