[h2]3. Rooney Mara[/h2]
One of the most talented and versatile 20-something actresses working today, Rooney Mara seems capable of just about anything, and despite a stirring turn in David Fincher’s Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, she has not had the break-out, star-making moment a Star Wars film would provide. I would, as noted before, be extremely interested in seeing Episode VII feature a female protagonist – be she Han and Leia’s daughter or someone else entirely – and Mara is not only the right age for the part, but has also displayed a quiet, latent power in her work, a deceptively formidable physicality and heightened sense of intelligence that would serve her well as a Jedi warrior. Her work in Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects, coming out this Friday, is arguably her most varied and surprising performance to date, and further cements my opinion that she has the strengths necessary to work within this universe.
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