Update: Rooney Mara Says Her "SVU" Quotes Were "Taken Out of Context"

[JamesG]

Rooney Mara on Her "Law & Order: SVU" Role: "It Was So Awful"
Dec 16, 2011
by Robyn Ross


Rooney Mara isn't looking back on her "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" guest role with much fondness.

In a recent interview with Allure, the star of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo slammed the character and story line she was asked to play.



"It was so awful. So stupid. Me and my boyfriend—although I don't look old enough to have a boyfriend—went and beat up these fat people, and at the end of the show you find out that I used to be obese and I hate fat people.

It's ridiculous. Who would beat someone up because they're fat? People are obsessed with that show. I don't get it."



Mara, 26, appeared on "Law & Order: SVU" in 2006 during the 7th season.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Rooney-Mara-Law-Order-1040899.aspx

[70s show watcher]

i remember that ep it was not one of the best eps thats for sure

[Goldilocks]

Well, if she thought it was so stupid, why did she accept the gig? These pretentious "artists" crack me up!

[HuntingtonM15]

Well, if she thought it was so stupid, why did she accept the gig? These pretentious "artists" crack me up!

Obviously, because she was a nobody at the time and would pretty much take anything. Not that I agree with her bashing a show that gave her work, but it's clearly the reason.

[JamesG]

Rooney Mara: "Law & Order: SVU" Quote Out Of Context
12/19/11
by AP / The Huffington Post


Last week, the Internet was abuzz over a quote Rooney Mara gave to Allure for their new cover story.

The New York Post's Page Six picked up a sliver of an excerpt from the magazine, in which Mara appeared to say that her first-ever professional role, as a formerly obese girl who taunts and bullies overweight children, was "stupid" and "awful", amongst other unflattering things.

The story took off (including getting picked up here at HuffPost) in part because the world knows so little about the 26-year-old actress at this point.



The incident proved instructive about the more inconvenient sides of celebrity.

Speaking to The Huffington Post in a discussion about her new film, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Mara cleared up the situation and discussed how it reflects her career's progression.







You've said -- or at least I read -- that you didn't necessarily love your time during that "SVU" episode and some other shoots.

So what was it about working with David Fincher on The Social Network and now Dragon Tattoo that rekindled your passion?

First of all, the "SVU" thing -- that's just not true. That was my first job. It couldn't have been more exciting for me. It's an experience I hold very dear to my heart. People take things out of context, and that's just not the case. I was more nervous doing that job than I was doing this job.

I didn't love the experience, but I would never take it back because I feel like I learned something from it and it brought me to my next job. I feel like every job I've ever had has led me to the next, and whether you like something or not, you always learn from it, and I think sometimes it's good to do those jobs that weren't necessarily easy to make, and you learn the most about yourself from those.







I immediately felt bad asking that question, because at this point, the story isn't so much whether you liked those shoots, but what the press and the Internet harps on.

It's really silly. People, especially with young girls, they feel the need to make them out to be a certain way, and I feel so grateful for any job I've ever gotten. I feel grateful for the student jobs I did, I feel grateful for being an extra in some of the things my sister did. I feel like every single job that I've done has shaped who I am and has led me to where I am now.

It's hard to have to talk about yourself all the time and things are out of context, and whatever that quote was, I don't know, but it's certainly not what I meant.

If anything, I didn't mean that the storyline was ridiculous; I meant that humanity is ridiculous. I know that "Law & Order" makes their episodes out of real things that are happening in the city, so to me, by "ridiculous" I meant that humanity is ridiculous. People are awful to one another; and to me, I find it ridiculous.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/19/rooney-mara-explains-law-and-order-svu-quote-out-of-context_n_1157602.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003