Posted on 07/07/2017 4:35:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
We all know Rooney Mara is many things: an actress, “aloof” (her word), a romantic colonic-haver. But we had no idea that she was also a person who never tried pie before the age of 31, at which point she finally ate the dessert for an extremely long pie-related scene in a movie.
During an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the star of A Ghost Story was asked about the scene, in which Mara’s character emotionally eats an entire chocolate-cream pie in silence while grieving the death of her partner. “It was such a unique way of showing grief, we’ve never seen anything like that before. And I’d actually never had pie before, that was my first and last pie,” Mara told the Times.
Like the rest of us, reporter Mark Olsen was surprised by Mara’s pie remark and asked her to clarify how it is possible that she, an adult human woman, had never eaten pie before, to which the film’s director David Lowery commented, “I asked that same question.”
Mara explained, “I just don’t really have a sweet tooth, and I was a really, really strange, picky child. Something about pie always grossed me out and I just never tried it before. And this came along and I tried making them switch it to something else, but David really wanted it to be pie, so we did pie.”
For what it’s worth, Mara, now 32, ate a vegan, gluten-free, low-sugar chocolate-cream pie during the scene, which was filmed in 2016 when she was the extremely young age of 31. The pie was prepared for the actress by one of the film’s producers, James Johnston, who is a vegan chef.
We can only hope she’s at least tried a strawberry before.
Oh, I think she’s eaten pie before.....
Actor alert, actor alert.
Acute signs of no education and uber gullability seeping from both cells of her brain.
Which liberal education does she have?
And it is obvious that she must believe in glow bull warming.
If it was vegan, it wasnt pie.
I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t like pie
THAT had to taste like crap!
I have no idea who she is.
Agreed.
When she takes over the Giants, will she have it written into players’ contracts that they can’t eat pie.
Man. Talk about number 1 on my list of “things I could give ten thousand givashits about”.
Granddaughter(?) of Wellington Mara who started the New York Giants football team. Named after the family that owned the Pittsburgh Steelers.
She is thought to be some kind of actress.
Emotional eating is one of the most common behaviors on earth. What planet are these people from?
She is an actress and scion of the respective families that founded the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants. In fact, her name is the combination of those two family names.
Fail to see what the big deal is here. Growing up Italian, I never had bread and oil which apparently is a staple of Italian cooking, EXCEPT in the part of Italy I’m from. Or else maybe my dad thought it was disgusting.
I’ve never been a picky eater but you’d be surprised what can turn their stomach or not look right. BFD.
“....ate a vegan, gluten-free, low-sugar chocolate-cream pie...”
Puke!
“vegan, gluten-free, low-sugar chocolate-cream pie”
No wonder it was also her last.
“We all know Rooney Mara...”
Uh... no. Never heard of the person.
I've never heard of her.
And don't particularly care to, I'm sure.
I think she had a very big role as a creepy tattooed goth girl in three major movies and made a lot of money. Sounds like she always was a creepy goth girl. Movies were pretty good, I watched them.
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