Rooney Mara Commits to Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects

Don't know if The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo made a big enough of a splash for it to cause long-term career repercussions for Rooney Mara as much as her co-star Daniel Craig. For him, it just further solidified as great an actor he is he can’t open anything that doesn’t have the 007 logo.

Mara, on the other hand, didn’t have too much on her rap-sheet before this outside of that awful Nightmare on Elm Street remake, her small but pivotal role in The Social Network, and, as I'm told by my pal Ed Hocken, the "victim of the week" role on Law & Order: SVU as an ex-fatty-turned-fatty hater. Yes, it's as stupid as it sounds but that SVU for ya, and we all had a good laugh over that one.

So she scored an Oscar nomination and, to her credit, doesn't appear to be waiting for word on The Girl Who Played with Fire, a follow-up few are certain will come to light, to make her next move. Variety says Mara will next appear in Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects, filling in for Blake Lively in a cast that includes Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jude Law and Channing Tatum.

She'll play a "a young woman who is taking high amounts of prescription drugs to deal with anxiety and depression surrounding the upcoming release of her husband from prison." That's a role as far apart from Lisbeth Salander as possible. A smart move on her part.