“When I was starting out it was really frustrating because it felt like all the parts out there were ‘the girlfriend’ or whatever. There was no real person behind most of those characters. In the last five years that’s changed and I’ve had the opportunity to play a range of well-realised characters. But a lot of the time it feels like I’m reading the best female dialogue out there. There have been years where there’s been nothing that’s interested me. You get scripts through and the dialogue is just horrible. It’s so weird. People just don’t know how to write female dialogue. So many men are afraid of writing female dialogue. We’re not that different, you know, we’re all human".

Rooney MARA, The Look of Silence

-> Cf: Emily Blunt: Write me as a guy, and I’ll do the girl stuff. Just write me as you would a guy: as complicated, as conflicted, as at-fault

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"In the last years that’s changed and I’ve had the opportunity to play a range of well-realised characters".
Rooney Mara: Emily Taylor | Side Effects / Effets secondaires | Steven Soderbergh, 2013