Rooney Mara had to wear a merkin for her role in ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’

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Rooney Mara

The 26-year-old actress admits a lot of discussion and planning went into what sort of pubic hair wig she would display in the film, because her character Lisbeth Salander is naked in so many scenes in the new thriller.

In an interview with the Metro.us, she revealed: “There was a lot of discussion that went into my merkin for the movie, because I was naked quite a lot. And I don’t think a lot of people will notice all of the attention that went into that. But there were a lot of discussions around that.”

One of the things the director David Fincher and the production crew wanted to get right was the colour of the intimate hair piece.

Rooney explained: “Well, you know, in the book she’s meant to have strawberry-blonde hair originally and she dyes it, so we had a special merkin made that was, you know, strawberry-blonde so that it would fit.”

The actress stars opposite Daniel Craig in the movie, which is based on the Swedish novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson.

There are two other books which make up the ‘Millennium Series’, ‘The Girl Who Played with Fire’ and ‘The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest’.

All three tomes have been made into Swedish language films.

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forflann | Dec 14, 2011, 03:03 PM EST

Many young actresses might do the "Brazilian" wax thing to appear more sleek in swim-suit photos. Also I don't think if the actress naturally has dark hair, and would need the nether regions appear blonde, that she would care to have harsh chemicals applied to tender regions. The Hollywood decency rules you mention were implimented in the'30's,thanks to Washington's opinion films were too sexy. Will Hayes was the decency monitor. Silent films abounded with sex,check out Hollywood Babylon by K. Anger, Theda Bara, Gloria Swansone, in their prime. In the early '50's in the film The moon is Blue, where the young girl has the linw,"I'm a virgin". The film did not get a "seal of approval". It was released and did very well for Bill Holden. it wasn't long before the envelope was pushed and The Last Tango in Paris and other "earthy" films gave us ratings. I remember Going to see 10 with my son and several of his friends were at the theatre and asked to join us. I shrugged and said if you get by with it, they did. So ratings are only as good as they are inforced. How ever I guess it better than young teen boys cutting school to hang out in the Rialto balcony to watch a "Minsky's" review.

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CaptainCon | Dec 14, 2011, 01:24 PM EST

Why would an actress have to wear a 'merkin' which I take it is some kind of wig. Couldn't she just have had her own dyed. Weird. Next you'll be telling me that bare breasts in films are simply sugar bags with jelly inside. We are a strange animal we human beings. If the scene called for nakedness shouldn't the actor or actress just be naked? This article reminds me of the Hollywood decency rules which stipulated that actors had to have one foot on the floor at all times during a bed scene at one time. Bizarre support for the pretence that sex, pubic hair and so on do not exist off the silver screen. This prudishness is just silly and a reflection of immaturity in the view of the human body in my opinion.

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