Rooney Mara’s Directorial Discrimination: Learning from Bad Experiences
After some “bad experiences,” Rooney Mara chooses her projects based on the director, she said at the Berlin Film Festival press conference for her new film “La Cocina.”
“I really go by the director. I learned that pretty early,” Mara said when asked her process for selecting films. “I had some bad experiences as an actor.
Mara stars in “La Cocina,” directed and written by Alonso Ruizpalacios, which follows the staff of a New York City restaurant as their kitchen descends into chaos.
Ruizpalacios had his eye on Mara for even longer — ever since he and his wife went to the movies on Christmas more than a dozen years ago to see “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”
That trip to the cinema also ended up inspiring a tense scene in the film where the restaurant’s cherry coke machine breaks, flooding the kitchen.
“As we went to buy some popcorn, I felt when I was reaching the concessions that the floor was really wet. Then I came close and realized there was a Cherry Coke machine, and it was spilling like an endless fountain,”
“La Cocina” premieres at Berlin Film Festival on Friday night.
