Original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star Noomi Rapace discusses her role as the film’s protagonist Elizabeth Shaw, and how she represents the faith side of the movie’s thematic debate between faith and science:

Yes — she is a scientist and she grew up in Africa and her father was a priest, so she has been raised close to God, seeing different cultures and different people living under different conditions from a very early age. She has been travelling around, seeing different life forms since she was quite young. But her father died when she was young so she has been on her own and she has been able to turn and to use God and things that have happened to her in a constructive way. So she became a scientist but she still has a great gift of believing. It’s an interesting conflict that we [points to Ridley Scott] were talking about a lot, being a scientist but still believing in God. What she’s looking for out there and this whole mission is very personal to her; it’s like something she has been living with and waiting for and wanting to do her whole life, in a way.

And is it about retaining faith in the middle of horrible things happening to you? Visiting hell, essentially?
Yes. She goes through a lot of things in the movie and she transforms. You know, in the beginning she is not maybe naïve, but she is full of hope and a true believer and then things happen and she becomes a survivor and a fighter and a warrior in a way. I’m not sure that she is so convinced at the end of the movie. I think she realises that it wasn’t really what she expected.

And costar Charlize Theron discusses her role as the mysterious company representative Meredith Vickers:

It’s weird because a lot of what makes her the enigma that she is in the beginning comes across as very quintessentially ‘suity’, I guess, like detached and cold. And she really does seem to be just there for the sole purpose of making everybody’s life hell, as suits tend to want to do! She’s just causing a lot of red tape and she’s not a believer, she’s not a scientist, she really is just there to make sure that you think that everything is going to plan. But she’s actually there for a very personal reason, of which I cannot speak.

There’s plenty more at the link, including comments from costar Michael Fassbender and director Ridley Scott. [Empire Online]

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Title Sequence (David Fincher Version)

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Trent Reznor and Karen O cover Led Zeppelin’s The Immigrant Song for the trailer of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.  It is sizzling.

Just a clip. Can’t find the full song yet. Trent Reznor AND Karen O AND they’re doing Zeppelin??? That’s just too much!

Trent Reznor and Karen O- Immigrant Song