Actors Who Were Traumatized By Their Most Intense Roles

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

In order to look the part, Mara had to completely transform into Lisbeth Salander from David Fincher's 2011 film. This involved milestones like cutting her hair, bleaching her eyebrows white, and piercing her body and face in order to get into the headspace of the cyber hacker hero from Stieg Larsson's novels.

"I didn't even have pierced ears," Mara said in an interview. "They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most."

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The More You Know

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