The moment Rooney Mara decided she didn’t want to act in a movie again – David Fincher “saved” her

Actress Rooney Mara credits director David Fincher with her career, as she said on a recent episode of the “LaunchLeft” podcast (via IndieWire), as he helped her appreciate acting again after was about to quit after a bad experience making the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Although he did not reveal what exactly happened, he said that it was not such a good experience.

“A few years before ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,’ I had done a remake of ‘Nightmare on Poplar Road,’ 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 and I kind of got to the point where I didn’t want to play unless I was doing things I really enjoyed. So after I did that movie, I decided, ‘Okay, I’m just not going to act anymore unless it’s something I feel really good about.'”

But in “A Nightmare on Poplar Road” Fincher saw Mara and offered her a role for “The Social Network”. But for this to happen the director fought as Mara was not known.

“I had to fight really hard to get the part because the studio didn’t want me. It was a turning point in my life and career,” he said. They then worked together on the film The Girl with the Tattoo, which earned her an Oscar nomination and put her career on the right track.

“I worked on it for a year. David really took me under his wing. He became my mentor in many ways. He took so much care to make sure I knew I had a voice and that my opinion mattered. He was constantly encouraging me, which I think really influenced the rest of my choices afterwards,” the actress emphasized.

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