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そうだったのか、彼女はRooney Mara

 
下記の3つの映画、すべてRooney Maraが演じていたということを初めて知りました。







『ソーシャル・ネットワーク』(2010年)にしても『ドラゴン・タトゥーの女』(2011年)にしてもデヴィッド・フィンチャーの映画ですね。『ソーシャル・ネットワーク』の冒頭の場面は印象的でしたよね。今更すみませんが、どちらも同じ女優さんだったなんて。。。

3作目の映画はスティーブン・ソダーバーグ監督の『Side Effects』で全米では2月8日から公開されるそうです。3作ともイメージが全く違いますよね。いやあ、すごい女優だ。。。デヴィッド・フィンチャーとスティーブン・ソダーバーグが一目を置くだけありますね。(すみませんねえ、いまごろ。。。)

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何でこんなことを書いているかと言うと、Rooney MaraをNewsweekが取り上げていたからです。

Fifty Shades Of Rooney Mara
Feb 5, 2013 12:00 AM EST
In Hollywood—land of a million pretty young things—Rooney Mara has directors lining up to capture her icy demeanor and her inner fire.

I’m interested in the duality of people(人の二面性に興味がある)という彼女のコメントで始まる記事ですが、やはり彼女については、スカーレット・ヨハンソンやジェニファー・ローレンスなどと競いながら『ドラゴン・タトゥーの女』の主役に抜擢されたと言うことがかかせないですね。スカーレット・ヨハンソンって『レ・ミゼラブル』のオーディションも落ちたりして、なんか少女漫画の引き立て役の美少女みたいな立ち位置になっていますね(苦笑)

I’m interested in the duality of people,” says Rooney Mara, of her predilection for caliginous characters. “I have a lot of darkness and frenetic energy inside myself, so it’s easier for me to portray people with shades of gray.”

After two and a half months of grueling auditions, which included simulating the film’s lurid rape sequence, Mara beat out the likes of Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Lawrence for the role of Lisbeth Salander—an icy bisexual hacker in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. A Best Actress Oscar nomination soon followed, catapulting her to the rarefied air of Hollywood’s most wanted.


映画『Side Effects』の共演者もRooney Maraのことをベタボメしていますね。内面に熱いものを秘めている時にはShe has such a fire in herと言えばいいんですね(笑)

“It’s hard to really quantify Rooney,” says Tatum. “She has such a fire in her and you don’t think she does, because she’s so unassuming. So when she snaps, you’re just like, ‘How the f--k did that come out of this little, ethereal being with the porcelain skin?’ And when she laughs it’s completely shocking, too. It’s part of her mystique.”

Adds Law, “There isn’t a desperate bone in her body; she’s very cool. And it’s a rarity for someone of her age to be so fearless as a performer. She’s capable of going to the dark places, which is bold.”


ソダーバーグは『ソーシャルネットワーク』の冒頭の掛け合いの部分をみて彼女を気に入ったといっています。

Soderbergh took a shine to Mara after his pal Fincher showed him an early cut of The Social Network. Mara plays Erica Albright, a brainy, girl-next-door type who trades verbal barbs with eventual Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg, in the film’s riveting opening sequence.

“We had two mandates: she had to be somebody who could go toe-to-toe with Jesse, because he’s so verbal and quicksilver, and she also had to be the one that got away, so she needed to be special, really bright, and pretty,” says Fincher, before adding with a slight chuckle, “you can fake a lot of things in movies, but that’s not one of them.”


確かに下記のインタビューを見ても彼女の聡明さは感じ取ることができますね。また、記事の至るところで触れていましたが、shyであるところもこの動画で分かりますね。



The high-school version of Mara is quite similar to the current one, she says. She was incredibly shy and refused to participate in any sports or other group activities.

“The first day of high school, I went home halfway through because I was sick with anxiety,” she says. “Actually, the whole first week of school I was terrified. As a teenager, I spent a lot of time alone. I sat alone during lunch. I was a very strange child.”

今年はなんと4作品も公開されるようです。

The singular 27-year-old actress has four disparate film projects scheduled to hit theaters this year, including a Terrence Malick love story opposite Ryan Gosling, the gritty ’70s-era Western Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Spike Jonze’s sci-fi flick Her alongside Joaquin Phoenix, and Side Effects, a pharma-thriller helmed by Steven Soderbergh.

ですから、彼女はI don’t want people to get sick of me.と飽きられてしまうのではと心配しているようです。そんな彼女の心配に対して、ソダーバーグはすぐにはそんなことは起きないと思っているようです。というのもRooney has that innate quality. It’s called watchability.があるからだそうです。

In the meantime, Mara wants to take some time off to travel, and wait patiently on the sidelines until the right role comes along. She’s also worried that, with four films being released this year, she’ll become overexposed. “I think it’s actually too much,” she says. “I like working all the time, but I don’t think it’s good to have yourself out there all the time. I don’t want people to get sick of me.”

Soderbergh, who says he is retiring “for the foreseeable future” from feature filmmaking after Side Effects, doesn’t see that happening any time soon. “The thing that Robert Redford had that was compelling was that you never felt like you were getting all of him; he was always just out of reach,” he says. “But boy, did you want to reach him. Rooney has that innate quality. It’s called watchability.”

これも知らなかったのですがSoderbergh, who says he is retiring “for the foreseeable future” from feature filmmaking after Side Effectsとあるようにソダーバーグって引退するんですね。。。Rooney Maraが『ドラゴン・タトゥーの女』でアカデミー賞主演女優賞ににノミネートされていたのは知っていたのですが、映画をみてなかったので単なるキワモノ女優だとばかり思っていました(汗)これからは彼女にも注目していきたいと思います。
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