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David Fincher Gets The Girl

The darkly obsessive director of Fight Club and The Social Network takes on the biggest franchise since Harry Potter—The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. An exclusive first look from the set of the year’s most anticipated film. Read the full story here.

By Lynn Hirschberg
Photographs by Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Styled by Trish Summerville

February 2011

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To prepare for the role of Lisbeth Salander, actress Rooney Mara (shown here on location in Stockholm) had her eyebrows bleached, her hair chopped, and her lip, brow, nose, and nipple pierced—all in one “very intense” day.

Mara wears Diesel’s cotton denim jeans.

By Lynn Hirschberg
Photographs by Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Styled by Trish Summerville

February 2011

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David Fincher Gets The Girl