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Rooney Mara goes through the wringer as the lead of the revamped A Nightmare on Elm Street , but it’s nothing compared to what she had to endure in her upcoming film, the David Fincher-directed Facebook drama The Social Network . The meticulous Fincher is notorious for demanding that his actors peform dozens of takes, as Jake Gyllenhaal found out while shooting Zodiac : “Sometimes we’d do a lot of takes, and he’d turn, and he would say, because he had a computer there, ‘Delete the last 10 takes,'” Gyllenhaal told the NYT in 2007. “And as an actor that’s very hard to hear.” When Movieline spoke to Mara this week, we had to know: Is Fincher still up to his old tricks?

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Rooney Mara: David Fincher Made Me Do 99 Takes of a Single Social Network Scene