Casting Standout: 'The Girl Using the Dragon Tattoo'

Casting Standout: 'The Girl Using the Dragon Tattoo' By Jessica Gardner November 18, 2011 Photo by Columbia Pictures Director David Fincher and casting director Laray Mayfieldcollaborators on "The Social Networking," "The Curious Situation of Benjamin Button," "Fight Club," and "Zodiac"have partnered once again to tackle Fincher's much-anticipated adaptation from the novel "The Lady Using the Dragon Tattoo."Mayfield, who won an Artios Award in the Casting Society of America this past year for "The Social Networking," began speaking with Fincher concerning the casting from the new film in May 2010. "I had been both excited and overcome," she states about dealing with the highly anticipated project. To organize, she read all of the books in Stieg Larsson's trilogy. Then, to possess a reason for reference, she viewed this year's Swedish film version from the novel. "There's always a concern when there's pre-existing material," Mayfield states. But she highlights that Fincher was basing his film around the book, this is not on the prior movie: "David is really honorable towards the books, figures, and Sweden, and so i wasn't worried."Their central challenge was casting the primary character Lisbeth Salander, referred to within the books like a small-in-stature 24-year-old computer hacker having a photo taking memory, past violence, along with a tragic past. The role visited Rooney Mara. Apparently, nearly every female actor in Hollywood desired to play Lisbeth. However, producer Scott Rudin states Fincher's idea right from the start ended up being to cast a family member unknown, to ensure that audiences would take their own ideas about Lisbeth onto whomever was playing her. Fincher wanted "someone who we did not have history with," Rudin describes. "Brilliant people examined for this. I am talking about, lots of stars examined for it, and were fantastic, but there is something about Rooney. She am exciting inside it, and thus fresh, and completely unpredictable. The truth that we simply have no idea her that well managed to get, gave it a type of kinetic souped up that I believe most likely wouldn't have happened with someone else."Mayfield introduced Fincher to Mara throughout auditions for "The Social Networking," by which he cast her as Erica Albright. "David loved her on 'Social Network,' " states Rudin. "From the moment we began focusing on 'Dragon Tattoo,' I believe David always really wanted Rooney to experience it. In deference towards the scale from the decision, he experienced a really lengthy process and labored with lots of people and several times of shooting film teststests with sets, tests with costumes, hair, makeup, the entire deal. And That I think back in internet marketing now and i believe, 'Why did we all do all that whether it was going to become Rooney?' "Additionally to Lisbeth, Mayfield states, there have been a number of other casting challengesmainly the generational casting of countless roles cheap most of the figures are based on one another. "We required to make that credible," she states. Another challenge was casting the role of nasty Nils Bjurman, Lisbeth's legal protector, who terrible items to her. Nederlander actor Yorick van Wageningen ("The Way In WhichInch) submitted an audition tape from Europe. "He was fantastic," states the Compact disc. Later she was surprised to locate out how different van Wageningen was from his character. "After I met him personally, I melted. He's a stuffed animal."Mayfield states she's thrilled with the way the film switched out: "I'm always excited for audiences to determine everything David does." Casting Director: Laray MayfieldDirector: David FincherWriter: Steven Zaillian, in line with the novel by Stieg LarssonStarring: Difficulties, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgrd, Christopher Plummer, Robin Wright, Yorick van WageningenThe Pitch: Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Craig) seeks out a youthful computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander (Mara) to assist him in his visit a missing lady. Casting Standout: 'The Girl Using the Dragon Tattoo' By Jessica Gardner November 18, 2011 PHOTO CREDIT Columbia Pictures Director David Fincher and casting director Laray Mayfieldcollaborators on "The Social Networking," "The Curious Situation of Benjamin Button," "Fight Club," and "Zodiac"have partnered once more to tackle Fincher's much-anticipated adaptation from the novel "The Lady Using the Dragon Tattoo."Mayfield, who won an Artios Award in the Casting Society of America this past year for "The Social Networking," began speaking with Fincher concerning the casting from the new film in May 2010. "I had been both excited and overcome," she states about dealing with the long awaited project. To organize, she read all of the books in Stieg Larsson's trilogy. Then, to possess a reason for reference, she viewed this year's Swedish film version from the novel. "There's always an issue when there's pre-existing material," Mayfield states. But she highlights that Fincher was basing his film around the book, this is not on the prior movie: "David is really honorable towards the books, figures, and Sweden, and so i wasn't worried."Their central challenge was casting the primary character Lisbeth Salander, referred to within the books like a small-in-stature 24-year-old computer hacker having a photo taking memory, past violence, along with a tragic past. The role visited Rooney Mara. Apparently, virtually every female actor in Hollywood desired to play Lisbeth. However, producer Scott Rudin states Fincher's idea right from the start ended up being to cast a family member unknown, to ensure that audiences would take their own ideas about Lisbeth onto whomever was playing her. Fincher wanted "someone who we did not have history with," Rudin describes. "Brilliant people examined for this. I am talking about, lots of stars examined for this, and were fantastic, but there is something about Rooney. She am exciting inside it, and thus fresh, and completely unpredictable. The truth that we simply have no idea her that well managed to get, gave it a type of kinetic souped up that I believe most likely wouldn't have happened with someone else."Mayfield introduced Fincher to Mara throughout auditions for "The Social Networking," by which he cast her as Erica Albright. "David loved her on 'Social Network,' " states Rudin. "From the moment we began focusing on 'Dragon Tattoo,' I believe David always wanted Rooney to experience it. In deference towards the scale from the decision, he experienced a really lengthy process and labored with lots of people and several times of shooting film teststests with sets, tests with costumes, hair, makeup, the entire deal. And That I think back in internet marketing now and i believe, 'Why did we all do all that whether it was always likely to be Rooney?' "Additionally to Lisbeth, Mayfield states, there have been a number of other casting challengesmainly the generational casting of countless roles cheap most of the figures are based on each other. "We required to make that credible," she states. Another challenge was casting the role of nasty Nils Bjurman, Lisbeth's legal protector, who terrible items to her. Nederlander actor Yorick van Wageningen ("The Way In WhichInch) submitted an audition tape from Europe. "He was fantastic," states the Compact disc. Later she was surprised to discover how different van Wageningen was from his character. "In him personally, I melted. He's a stuffed animal."Mayfield states she's thrilled with the way the film switched out: "I'm always excited for audiences to determine everything David does." Casting Director: Laray MayfieldDirector: David FincherWriter: Steven Zaillian, in line with the novel by Stieg LarssonStarring: Difficulties, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgrd, Christopher Plummer, Robin Wright, Yorick van WageningenThe Pitch: Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Craig) seeks out a youthful computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander (Mara) to assist him in the visit a missing lady.