I was on the phone with my mom during the first part of E! Red Carpet coverage (what? It’s our thing) and when Rooney Mara came on to talk to Ryan Seacrest, within seconds, my mom and I both had competing Rooney Mara impressions. I have to admit, my mom’s is better. I don’t know if it was just hearing Rooney’s actual voice for the first time, or the fact that she seemed so patronizing, so “over it” already, but it made for great comedy. Rooney’s voice is not unlike Megan Fox’s – it’s nasal and bored and entitled and kind of Valley Girl. Like, everything gets higher at the end of the sentence so it sounds like a question? And bored. You have to sound bored. And like it’s such an imposition to be speaking to Ryan Seacrest. Like, you’re so above this, doesn’t anyone understand? Doesn’t everyone know that she’s only speaking to Ryan, like, ironically?
Anyway, Rooney’s dress is Nina Ricci. It kind of awful, right? I was going to make a point about Rooney’s endless supply of black dresses and how they all blend together and maybe that’s the problem, but that’s not even it. This is just a terrible dress with a dust ruffle. It’s unflattering, it looks cheap, and Rooney looks like hell in it. *so bored*
Did you enjoy the cut-aways to Rooney during the ceremony? SO BORED. Jesus, why didn’t everyone at the ceremony just realize that she’s, like, the only TRUE artist? God, it’s so boring when other people, like, WIN things.
I’m also including some photos of Salma Hayek, who is not bored or boring. I hated her Gucci dress, but compared to Rooney, aren’t you overwhelmed by Salma’s professionalism and her ability to actually entertain and engage?
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame.
She had to maintain her aloofness!
Yes she is too busy cultivating aloofness where as Angelina just oozes the stuff.
You hated Salma’s dress??? I beg to differ, it rocks! Very nice art deco feel to it.
Me too!! Salma’s dress looks amazing!!!!!!!!!
True that, Salma looked too hot to handle.
Agreed! Love the dress and love it on her!
I like the dress, but when did Salma become such a bobble head? Perhaps it’s the angle she was photographed at, but her head looks too heavy for her body.
Seriously! that dress is a deco dream! And it somehow works perfectly on her figure! One of my favorites of the night without a doubt.
I like the top of Rooney’s dress but the bottom is bad. Boring and awful.
I’m over this girl and she’s kind of just showed up. Must’ve been the article in EW that did it. She seems to give off the vibe that she’s bored w/it all because she’s such a deep artist who can’t be bothered.
Why does Rooney always have her hair greased to the point that it’s stuck to her head? Gawd she looks awful, that dress is fugly. I don’t really care for Salma’s dress, but her hair and makeup are done really nice.
Rooney should really wear her hair over her ears. Selma looks amazing!
I totally didn’t realize how freaky her ears are until you said something! I totally hated her until I saw her in GWTDT- now I’ve grown a bit fond of her. Plus I like her whole pale girl with dark hair vibe (like me!) Meh, I don’t know why but I like her.
yawn.
double yawn
Didn’t care for Rooney’s dress, thought it was kind of boring. She looks very pretty when she does the dramatic eye makeup though.
I didn’t like Salma’s at first, but in that photo it isn’t bad.
Mara looks quite lovely. She is probably just trying to maintain her composure being somewhat new to the Hollywood awards scene.
I agree. And that was my impression when she was talking to Seacrest, just trying to play it cool amidst all the madness. I thought she seemed pretty humble. She does look prettier when she shows her dimples (although not her teeth).
Mara’s makeup is a HUGE improvement. I’m so used to her awful dresses that I don’t trust myself to judge this one.
I’ve said it before, but I still think she’s doing her career a lot of damage with this Valley Girl thing. Unless she’s making powerful friends behind the scenes, no one’s going to hire someone who might defecate on the project afterwards.
Also, while most people might not be paying attention, the gossip and film fans pay attention to this kind of thing as a matter of course.
They’re the people who are most likely to actually pay to watch films in the cinema. She’s antagonising them (us?) so much that I don’t see why anyone would hire her and potentially ruin the word of mouth buzz.
(Incidentally, do you think this explains the awful dresses? Has she antagonised that many stylists? Do the stylists not want to be associated with her?)
She’s actually very talented. She needs to improve her attitude.
ITA. Even with all the ‘best cast & crew’ and the biggest budget, anything can go wrong in a movie that makes it embarrassing (someone mentioned “Australia” in the NK thread, so I’ll use that example).
Directors and casting agents DO NOT want a star who will turn on them if something goes wrong. No way.
At least she has family money to fall back on, so she’ll be alright.
Maybe I just have a thing for Frenchmen, but Salma’s hubby is SO hot to me! Even without the money.
And when Antonio spoke Spanish on stage w/ Salma—-WOWWY. I LOOOOOOVE his Castilian ‘th th th’s’! mmmm
I liked Salma. She has the tendency to look a bit top or bottom heavy in gowns because she is short, but this dress was beautifully proportioned.
That dress is pretty bad. She does know she doesn’t have to remain in character forever? Right? I mean goodness she can show a little personality.
Is the lack of expression on RM’s face a sign of too much botox?
No- Salma was giving bitch-face the entire awards show. She looked smug and totally unhappy to be there.
I love Rooney’s style. Yeah, she a bit insufferable, but she always looks stunning, IMHO.
Actually, Mara’s interview with Seacrest wasn’t that bad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTWhmnL-5Ok
I agree, it was really nice. But to me she’s always seemed kind of shy and sweet. I like the girl
Yeah, I didn’t get the “Valley Girl” impression at all. She just seemed shy and nervous. It’s her first Golden Globes! Give the girl a break.
I know right, she sounded so sweet in this interview and she’s always a bit shy and nervous. Ryan is a stupid a**hole who has nothing better to say/ask. She’s just not used to answering questions yet, she’s not being ironic. At first I didn’t really like her but after a couple of smiles I’ve seen from her, I started to enjoy her presence a bit more. I think I’m just starting to understand her ways a bit. Of course badmouthing her past works is terrible but I think her problem is that, as I said before, she has no idea of how to answer certain questions yet.
Rooney has just been wearing different versions of the same boring concept her stylist panned out for her for the award season. Anyway, she’s a big MEH to me. Salma looks DELICIOUS.
I actually think Rooney’s dress is pertty nice on her, an her makeup looks great. Salma’s dress is a bit “much”.
If you’ve seen the Swedish version of GWTDT, then you’ll know what a FRAUD Mara Rooney is. She completely stole the Swedish actress’ EVERYTHING. No wonder she looks like such a grump in every pic.
But, her dress looks good on her, but who the heck put that RUFFLE on the bottom of it? Doesn’t even look like the fabric matches.
Selma’s dress is fab altho it looks like her breasts might pop out of it if she lifted her arms!
Though I love Noomi Rapace’s Lisbeth, I do think that Rooney was able to convey Lisbeth as more feminine and slightly more vulnerable than Noomi did, just my opinion.
She didn’t steal anything if you’ve read the books. They’re actually based on different aspects of the character.
They played the same character based on the same books. No sh*t she had to “steal” some aspects of the character- they both used the same character based on the book! Not only that, but she portrayed, as the others said, a different aspect of the character.
Oh, let’s cut the girl some slack. She’s young. I was prepared to hate her in the GWTDT, having loved Noomi Rapace in the original, but she actually pulled it off.
What does he age have to do with anything? She’s 26 y/o when can we stop giving her slack?
Not age, per se, but inexperience in the industry. This is her first big role- learning the ropes takes time!
I liked Mara’s dress on her. Salma’s, too. Salma looked so hot!
Salma was gorge. But what’s up with the two-tone hair? Can we please get over this trend of dark top-half, lighter bottom-half? Just looks like really grown out highlights.
Salma’s dress is horrible….
It was so refreshing to see her smile inside when they announced her nomination. She’s a pretty girl and had such a nice smile. The dress looks good on her.
I agree in regards to her smiling – I am trying to figure out what her reasoning is as to why she steadfastly refuses to smile beyond a slight grin when taking pictures (i.e. if she doesn’t like how she looks when she shows teeth, a confidence/shyness factor, or a method actor thing where she is trying to be “consistent” with Lisbeth???)
I do think she’s not so confident about herself in this actual position. Some people are just shy, you know, and I also can’t smile showing my teeth, it feels awkward and when I do, I try to cover it as fast as I can, just like Rooney does.
I agree. The dress, hair and make-up all looked nice on her. Some people just don’t smile showing all of their teeth. No one in my family does. It doesn’t mean we’re a-holes, it’s just naturally the way we all smile.
I feel like this girl has been pretty manipulated by the two a-holes she worked with on the film. She is an adult, but still young enough for that kind of treatment to hurt and make you act out in sometimes inappropriate ways.
In some article Lainey references on her site where Mara and Fincher interview each other, he relates a story about throwing his sister’s baby dolls filled with meat and ketchup off of overpasses when he was a kid. I know boys will be boys, but that is straight up a-hole behavior. The guy is a dick and I absolutely believe he treated and continues to treat Mara very badly. But, with her lack of experience, I’m not sure she is able to understand that right now. Give her a few years, though.
I think you’re right- I didn’t think about that before! Fincher is definitely a freakin’ creep. Hopefully he won’t be directing the sequels- although I did really enjoy GWTDT.
Lots of guys behave like assholes and do heinous shit when they’re 12. Really.
And I don’t get where this manipulation charge is coming from. There’s literally nothing to suggest that’s the case. If you watch an interview from before Dragon Tattoo, she acts the same.
You and your mom sound like a scream.
Mara looks like a snob and I still haven’t heard her speak. I loved the books by Larssen and hope the movie is good. Her dresses are horrible and yet she is being called a fashionista by the mainstream media?!? She looks like death, especially in comparison to Hayek.
I dunno, I start to like this girl. Yes, she has a serious mouth diarrhea, and bashing her former jobs three times in a row was a very stupid thing to do, but I watched her interviews, and for me she came off as a shy, nice, very introverted kid. I tend to believe this aloffness isn’t an act and she isn’t Goop 2.0. Sometimes it looks like she was the distant cousin of Temperance Brennan and Sheldon Cooper – a socially awkward, but not horrible person.
Exactly my thoughts, I think she is shy and very impressed by what is hapening to her, I have read an interview of her in the French grazia magazine in which she revealed that Fincher made her spend months alone in ssweden, she was just by herself without speaking the langage or knowing someone, she also talked about the fact that she is a very lonesome person, so all these things made me assume she is a very introspective and shy person.
Plus her unusual/goth style has grown on me I think she pulls it off very well, and the outcome is really nice and pretty, I find her amazingly pretty too and that helps a lot.
Well I am starting to like her! a lot!
Agree with both of you. I think RM comes off better in interviews where you can actually hear her speak – she’s soft spoken and really quiet. You can tell she doesn’t know what to do on the red carpet: no posing, hands always held together.
I like her style, her black dresses are better than Aniston’s.
I completely agree! She didn’t seem stuck up AT ALL- she was just so shy. A bit like Kristen Stewart, but prettier. No, I seriously think that she likes back and is an introvert.
Someone who claims to be aloof like 35270 times is just a poser, not real. In her W magazine interview she said the words “I’m aloof” like eight freakin times! so annoying
This was so boring, so yesterday. So NOT edgy. I hate faux edginess.
I think Salma looked utterly gorgeous (face, hair, earrings wise), but I couldn’t see the bottom of her dress properly and seeing it now I didn’t realise it was so.. sparkly, which kind of bums me out because I liked the top part of it and if the bottom had been matt the dress would have been my 2nd favourite of the night.
Salma also looks like she is posing with her dad there (yes I know that is her husband). Yikes.
As for Rooney, meh. Such a try hard isn’t she lol.
I’m confused as to why people call her a “try hard.” The stylist is doing the real work and the theme is clearly connected to the movie she’s promoting. You guys do remember she’s promoting a movie, right? She doesn’t wear these things in everyday life.
I only noticed the camera cutting away to her when Colin Firth said her name and during Meryl Streep’s speech. In neither shot did she look bored. LOL @ people scrutinizing every little thing for an excuse to criticize her.
Awww. I just watched the interview. I think the problem is that she’s painfully shy and overwhelmed. Look at the way she is playing with her hands the entire time. I understand because I’m the same way. A lot of times when I meet new people they think I’m stuck up/bitchy when I’m really not, it’s just that I’m seriously shy and have a hard time talking to people before I have a chance to get to know them, ESPECIALLY have a problem with things like public speaking out of my element.
The bottom of the dress though; terrible. Poor girl is in over her head.
Damn, I’m already sick of her.
This might have worked at a movie premiere along with her other black dresses. This is an award show. She can step out of character. I would really like to see her in something different. Hard to judge her fashion now because it’s always same hair, same makeup, same pose, slightly different black dress.
I love “The Girl…” series and was so excited to see the Fincher film. Then, I read her interview, and another, and another. I’m all about Noomi Rapace and Team Sweden. I might watch the American version someday but right now it’s doubtful.
I wish I could like artists strictly for their talent, which is why I’ve scaled back on sites like this, but it’s just difficult to enjoy their performances when you’ve read unappreciative interviews or harsh criticisms of their fans’ lifestyles and beliefs. They have no problem alienating fan bases that don’t think similarly to themselves. I’m over the ego.
I love Celebitchy, but after reading some of these stories I’ll have nothing left to watch because no one in Hollywood actually seems likable. It’s a shame. I’m a huge fan of films but definitely not the “stars” who appear in them.
That being said, I still want to bang Idris Elba. Stringer Bell!!
Agreed, I love the films but the majority of the people in it are unlikable.
I hate Rooney’s dress but I really do think she’s pretty. Not sure how to feel about her overall. Time will tell I guess.
Salma looked great in that dress!
It’s not the dress that it ‘budget’. Rather it’s her entire head that is budget. No matter what you put on this woman, she’ll always look budget, just like Hilary Swank.
And as for Salma Hayek, this is the dress she chose from of her husband’s fashion empire? I don’t know, but I’m hoping the Oscars has better fashion, because the Globes this time around was quite – to borrow a term from Madonna ‘reductive’ (lol) and, in some instances, overly retro (in a bad way).
Rooney looks like a gremlin whenever she leaves her ears uncovered, but at least she got rid of the unfortunate bangs that made her look like one of the Three Stooges. And, yeah, she looked beyond bored. The dress is truly unfortunate and looks like it was cobbled together from an old polyester cutain. Insult to injury, the saddlebags make her hips look huge, even though she’s quite skinny.
I wonder if Selma’s deadbeat dad of a husband is finally spending time with — and coughing up child support for — his son with Linda Evangelista.
This post is hilarious. And, kinda true. I give her passes when I feel like she’s being vulture-preyed on just for her fashion, but I don’t buy the TOO SHY excuse here. Carey Mulligan is morbidly shy, but she’s amazingly open and candid and endearing in interviews for those who read them. This is not Carey Mulligan.
yes! completely agree about carey. she has a more down to earth, endearing quality about her.
even megan fox can give an ok/at-least-entertaining interview now and then. same w/kstew. i have no desire to hear anything else come out of Rooney’s mouth!
Well, Carey is a very interesting and a warm person, Mara isn’t. I don’t like her written interviews either, but when I see her talking, she doesn’t seem horrible at all. She just seems extremely nervous. And she was friendly and patient even with the most irritating no name reporters.
She’s a strange girl.
does this chick ever smile?
At least she can act better than Megan Fox. And she looks smarter too.
I’ve already decided I don’t like this girl but… *sigh*… I have yet to see her in a dress I didn’t like. I LOVE this dress from the waist, up. I love her dedication to black. I love her style. Sorry.
I don’t pay a lot of attention to this girl, but when I saw her last night she looked pretty good IMO. Very understated and very simple.
i think this girl is so fake and a bad actress at that. now she’s posing like the serious ingenue. i’ve seen how this dress is supposed to look-with long punk gloves and all, it’s not exactly glamorous but it’s a fun concept. she wears this while missing out on the whole concept, her supposed faux goth hair looks cow licked, over all she looks like a monastery student. way to miss the point. at least try to fake it well!
I think shes just an introvert. I don’t like her hairstyle right now but she does not look like a gremlin! She’s a very pretty girl. She can’t win..if she were too full of herself like ashley greene, people would complain too. What’s wrong with Kristen Stewart either? They seem more real than the permanent grins on a lot of Hollywood people. Everyone has bad days, they’re just human!
if salma named her two impressive assets ‘professionalism’ and ‘ability’ then i am overwhelmed !!!
I think that in most cases, your opinion of a celebrity will color how you view everything they do/say.
If you dislike them, you will interpret what they do in a more negative light (e.g. “she’s stuck-up/bored, etc.”). If you like them, you will interpret their behavior more generously/not jump to the most negative conclusion (e.g. “she’s shy/inexperienced, etc.”) Same goes for how people interpret the behavior/statements of political candidates.
To those of you who are all, “Not me! I said s/he was awful/wonderful because s/he really is” Of course, I didn’t mean YOU. Unlike 99.9% of all human beings, you are completely objective. LOL.
i haven’t seen the US version of Girl w/ the Dragon Tattoo yet and I do appreciate that they went w/ an unknown. but this girl is just not likeable in any kind of way. think of other recent unknowns who shot to stardom after one role: carey, jennifer lawrence, gaborey (ugh, spelling)…..all have very likeable qualities about them. even kristen stewart is more likeable and we know that girl hates the spotlight! i just can’t like RM.
The dress that Mara is wearing is absolutely gorgeous in the Nina Ricci pre-fall 2012 picture they sent to style.com. The style.com reviewer even gave it a special mention. There was another gown in that collection that I thought was beautiful too, but I’m sure it would also get a lot of sneers, lol. I will admit, though, that the skirt does look a little bland here, and Rooney’s slumping doesn’t help. Other than that, I think she’s very pretty and she was great in TGWTDT.
I’ve never seen an interview with her but I have read a few and I have no problem with her attitude. People seem to be upset with comments she made about working on L&O SVU, but other than the classy Marissa(sp?)Haggarty(sp?) I think that show is a very exploitative one (along with all of the CSI’s). I haven’t watched it in ages but when I did I remember seeing episodes that made me cringe at the kind of victimhood the writers and producers made the guest actors suffer through.
I also read a comment somewhere (I think under a blind on CDAN in which everyone was guessing Mara to be one of the nameless participants) that claimed she has said she wasn’t sure she wanted to act because it is a trivial profession. But in a Vogue piece she talked about how she went to Africa with a college class to work as a volunteer through a foundation and she noticed how little of the money actually went to the people it was supposed to help. The vast majority of it went for “overhead”. So she started her own foundation in which she is the Chairman of the Board. Maybe that’s where she was coming from IF she ever made such a statement. And let’s face it, most regular people DO think (or LIKE TO think) acting is a trivial profession and that actors are here only for our entertainment, especially if (as #45 “d” says) we decide we don’t like them (without knowing them, lol). Oh, and every dress on Rooney in that Vogue piece was breathtaking, along with her in them.
I guess if you don’t have a bubbly personality you’re a stuck up bitch. I have no problems with Rooney, she was amazing in TGWTDT and from interviews I’ve seen, she seems painfully shy. I just think there’s too much pressure on her right now.
She was ungrateful talking about her past work and she even said in the audition for nightmare on elm street she tried so hard to not do it well ’cause she didnt want the role and then she realized she was FABULOUS at it. Seriously, there’s a big difference between been shy and not bubbly and been a pretentious bitch
Except you’re exaggerating and twisting what she said.
You can go into an audition not entirely enthusiastically and still come out of it feeling like you probably did it well. It’s not bragging, it’s just the way it is sometimes. She ultimately regretted signing onto a movie considered one of the worst of last year (crazy, right?).
It’s funny how quick people are to label someone a pretentious bitch. After that one scandalous comment, they assume every facial expression and twitch must be a product of their rotten, pretentious, stuck up soul.
Boring. This isn’t edgy or cutting edge or whatever type of look she’s trying to portray. She looks listless and uninteresting.
Oh god .I was hoping she did not come dressed like her character. Why can’t she come dressed like herself? Rather than trying to be like her character.
she should have been in those twi-crap movies.
Rooney’s dress looks a bit too big and Salma’s seems a bit too tight!
Personally, I think Rooney Mara looks good in her dress, even though I wish it would be more colorful than the black and white outfits she has been wearing to promote GWTDT. Her role as Lisbeth in GWTDT has influenced Rooney to change her real life persona from a young fresh face unknown actress to a dark and edgy goth-like starlet which has been getting a lot of rave reviews from various fashion designers.
It is normal for Rooney to be shy, reserved, and nervous since she is new to the hollywood scene and first time at an awards ceremony after years of acting in independent films and smaller supporting roles in major motion pictures such as The Social Network. You could tell by her facial expressions, posture, and body language that she is very shy and nervous while standing for photos on the red carpet. She also mention in an interview that she fears that all this fame could overshadow her acting career and is hopeful that it does not come in the way.
Rooney still smiles but only does it in private or when she feels like it. Not when she is facing more than 100 press reporters and photographers from around the world taking pictures while she is promoting her movie or attending a various event.
Rooney may not be comfortable with the spotlight at first, but it is going to take some time to get used to.
Rooney Mara describes herself as shy and introverted, which at times can be misinterpreted as bored and arrogant. I’m like that myself, so I would know.