Rooney Mara Talks ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ Sequels

What’s the time frame, before you have to get back into being Lisbeth Salander again?

MARA: I don’t really know. That’s a better question for Sony, I guess. I’m happy to have a little bit of a break, but I’m definitely looking forward to doing the next two. I would be really happy to do that.

How do you feel about the prospect of maybe doing The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest simultaneously?

MARA: I’d love to do that. That would be a smart way to do it.

Would it be harder to be in that space for a longer period of time like that?

MARA: No. I don’t think it would be any harder than doing it, coming out of it, and then going back into it. I think it actually would be easier to do it, all at once.

Your character has such a complicated relationship in the film with Daniel Craig’s character. How did that affect the way the two of you, as actors, related to each other when you weren’t shooting? Did you try to get to know each other, or did you keep a distance?

MARA: I think me and Daniel are both quite aloof and guarded people, so we didn’t bond that much. We didn’t have that much to shoot together. But, we did spend quite a lot of time rehearsing with David [Fincher] and the rest of the cast, and with Steve Zaillian, just reading through the script and trying to make things work. We were lucky, in that we started off shooting in Stockholm. For the first few months, everything we were shooting was pretty insignificant. It was coming in and out of doors. So, we had a lot of time to get comfortable with each other before we went to L.A. and did the meat of the movie.

Read the full (quite long!) interview at Collider.com! Are you looking forward to the upcoming adaptations of the next two installments, and did you enjoy the first film? I absolutely loved it and am really looking forward to the next ones!