Advertisement
24 Frames

Rooney Mara, showing more than dragon tattoos

By Steven Zeitchikwriter 
Share

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts.


Funny how a few images can change the tenor of Interweb conversation. A few months ago, people were worrying if Rooney Mara was too sexy to pull off the toughness of Lisbeth Salander. Now people are wondering if she’s too tough and not sexy enough. A photo spread in the new issue of W magazine seems calculated to dispel any notions of softness. Dispel it does, as you can see from the image in the cropped cover above. Click here for a slide show of Dress-Up: The Goth Hacker Edition.

— Steven Zeitchik

twitter.com/ZeitchikLAT

Advertisement
24 Frames
Steven Zeitchik

Steven Zeitchik is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer who covered film and the larger world of Hollywood for the paper from 2009 to 2017, exploring the personalities, issues, content and consequences of both the creative and business (and, increasingly, digital) aspects of our screen entertainment. He previously covered entertainment beats at Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, has contributed arts and culture pieces to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times and has done journalistic tours of duty in Jerusalem and Berlin. While at The Times he has also reported stories in cities ranging from Cairo to Krakow, though Hollywood can still seem like the most exotic destination of all.

Advertisement