Does anyone know why exactly she hates this movie so much? She said it almost made her quit acting. But what happened that made her experience so bad? I know she said she never wanted the role, but I wonder if there was something that happened on set or drama with the director / other actors / studio...
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but to take her words, it seemed like she just went in to get a role or to get a job but she never "really" wanted it. It was one of those whatever-i'll-just-do-it thing that just happened but she was so good that she got the part anyway and so she just went with it...lol.
It's like when you apply for a job you're sort of like rolling your eyes at, but you get it anyway and just decides to play along....
Plus the movie was bad. If it had been better and successful her time would change. Tom Banks was in a horror film that bombed and now disowns it
shareShe needs to get over it. The movie sucked but there are far worse things she could've done with her time ....what a typical, privileged Hollywood whiner. Personally she added nothing to this movie either. It would have been better with a more appealing lead.
shareShe does need to get over it. She could have met up with an actual real world sadistic serial killer. I'm sure that would have put a much more downer on her day (and life) than being in a crappy film.
shareI always get the impression that Rooney felt the slasher genre was a bit beneath her. Or that she was a bit too good for it. Here are her comments;
"You kind of learn to self-sabotage with things you don't want to get. Sometimes you don't want to get something but you do a really good job and you get in anyway," "That's kind of [what happened] with A Nightmare on Elm Street - I didn't even really want it. And then I went in [to audition] and I was like, [whispering] 'F**k. I definitely got that'."
Though I credit her for being honest, and there's no point in pretending that you liked starring in a movie when you didn't, especially years after you were in it, it does feel like she's acting as if the genre was beneath her. Maybe I'm wrong, but it does feel a bit like she's going; "Oh, slasher movies are awful, but I'm so awesome they called me back anyway."
I mean, fair enough if she doesn't like them. Slasher movies/horror movies aren't going to be for everyone. But you have to start somewhere. You're not going to come straight out of drama school and be offered the lead role in Oscar-quality movies. Loads of actors have started in horror movies early in their careers. At least this was a remake of an iconic one. (And she had an iconic hero role at that.)
George Clooney's career didn't suffer from being in Return To Horror High or Return Of The Killer Tomatoes. Or take Jennifer Aniston being in Leprechaun. When asked about that in interviews, she takes it in good humour and even laughs about it. There's no need to show off and act superior about being in it, she's had a lot of success now.
Nobody is saying these actors have to return to this sort of movie if they don't want to. They're successful enough to pick and choose now. So why give it the big'un? Every actor has to start somewhere. And when you've had the success that Rooney has had, acting sneeringly about being in a horror movie early on seems a waste of energy somehow.
the movie stank that's why.
shareRooney Mara Nearly Quit Acting After Bad ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Experience: ‘I Have to Be Careful With How I Talk About It’
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rooney-mara-nearly-quit-acting-152419767.html
Rooney Mara said on a recent episode of the “LaunchLeft” podcast (via IndieWire) that David Fincher restored her faith in acting after she nearly quit the profession following a bad experience making the 2010 “Nightmare on Elm Street” remake. The Oscar-nominated actor did not disclose what happened on the set, but she described it as “not a good experience.”share
“A few years before [‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’], I had done a ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ remake, which was not a good experience,” Mara said. “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 kind of decided, ‘Ok, I’m just not going to act anymore unless it’s something that I feel that way about.’”
Fortunately for Mara, she quickly got on Fincher’s radar following “Nightmare on Elm Street.” The duo first joined forces for “The Social Network,” where Mara left a huge impression in the opening scene as the ex-girlfriend who rips into Mark Zuckerberg. Mara wasn’t a household name at the time, so Fincher had to go to bat to cast her.
“He had to fight really hard for me to get the part because the studio didn’t want me for it,” Mara said. “It was a definite real turning point in my life and my career.”
Fincher would then cast Mara in “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” which earned her an Oscar nomination and set her career on a better path.
I never understood it and would like to, I hope it's not the horror-is-beneath-me response, also her scene in the snow was particularly flat like laughably so. I did enjoy some of her scenes with Quentin though.
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