Kate Mara competes with dogs for the rugby queen

Starring Kate Mara, the film "Rex the War Dog", which is based on the real story of the real dog, will be released this week, and it tells the story of Corporal Megan and the military dog Rex.

In the film industry, there is a convention that if you appear in a film with pets such as cats and dogs, often the audience's attention will be deeply attracted by those cute pets, so that the actors are completely reduced to human backgrounds, such as last year's "Mission of a Dog" and various versions of "Loyal Dog Hachiko" in previous years.

However, Kate Mara's performance in the film is very satisfactory to the female director Gabriela Copperswert, in addition to being born in 1983 with the protagonist Megan, both are New York compatriots, in the film Meghan while training and vomiting and in various horizontal bar training extreme movements, are Mara's most real state. In addition, the biggest common denominator between the two is that they are fans, Megan is a fan of the Yankees of MLB, and the real-life Kate Mara, in addition to the actor and fashion darling, her name will more often have various connections with football. After all, her "rugby queen" VIP status is too prominent.

She, a dog lover

Marla was originally a well-known dog lover in the circle, and according to her sister, Rooney Mara, the first thing her sister did when she returned home was to tease the dog first, and then come to talk to her.

"Oh my God, I can't imagine life without a dog." At the age of 20, Kate Mara's family had only one dog named Bruno, and the other two Lucius and Betty were Boston Hounds adopted from the rescue house. In 2015, while promoting her film Fantastic Four, Mara made a point of returning to her home in New York: "I plan to see my family and stay two nights." On the day she got home, the dog (Betty) died. I felt lucky because I was at home at the time. "Even the birds stopped chirping.", she recalled.

It was these experiences that made Kate Mara quickly enter the play, inside and outside the play, and became inseparable from her partner, the military dog Rex. The filming of key scenes including training and explosions went smoothly, but in one of the shots where Rex pounced on trainer Megan, Rex always did not contribute. The crew believes that the private intimacy between the actor and the dog is the main reason why Rex is reluctant to bite.

Regulars in rugby VIP seats

Born in Bedford, New York, Kate Mara, 35, is the second in a family of four siblings, the younger sister is Rooney Mara, who starred in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," and her uncle Dan Rooney was the U.S. ambassador to Ireland and co-founder of the Irish Foundation charitable organization. Her grandfather and maternal grandfather were the creators and owners of the New York Giants football team and the Pittsburgh Steelers football team, respectively.

"The Irish are always good at singing and dancing", Kate Mara, who has Irish ancestry, has been interested in acting and appearing since childhood. At the age of nine, she began performing in school musicals, attended several teenage theatre art schools, and was an active member of the community drama circle and the school drama circle.

Influenced by her grandfather and maternal grandfather, in addition to acting, she has spent many days in the rugby VIP seat from her childhood to the present. "Brave to face everything, to break into the fight to show off" is the core spirit of rugby, in the eyes of the little girl Mara, although she can not go on the field like a man to break through and fight, but you can use a very girly way to "show off", she chose to play before the league game to sing the national anthem. The experience of singing and performing in front of tens of thousands of people often made Mara accustomed to facing the big scenes.

Nominated by Emmy but "received a box lunch"

Since her 1997 appearance in the American drama Law & Order, Kate Mara has starred in several series and films. Although she has little award history, she still has the title of "10 Most Promising Actresses". Or it can be understood that the experience of immersing herself in the spirit of confrontation from a young age has been very helpful to her acting career.

Kate Mara's first film was director Sidney Pollack's Moving Heart, and she then starred in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, as Heath Ledger's daughter. In 2010, she starred in the Film "127 Hours", directed by Danny Ball and nominated for an Oscar... These experiences of working with famous literary directors have greatly benefited Kate Mara's understanding of the film and the improvement of her acting skills. When she went back to star in the commercial film "The New Fantastic Four" and the science fiction film "The Martian", her understanding of the role was mastered.

Until 2014, Mara was nominated for an Emmy Award that year for her role as Zoe, a female journalist played by her in the American drama "House of Cards". However, this character "received a box lunch" at the beginning of the second season. Marla was very open to this, after all, she finally had a lot of time to go to the rugby stadium stands and cheer.

Tips

While filming the episode "24 Hours," Mara missed a Premier Bowl game for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and she deliberately added a clause to her labor contract that read, "If the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New York Giants play in the Super Bowl, she must have a vacation to watch." However, if these two teams play each other, they will never make any remarks. ”

● At the age of 23, Mara worked in the football inspirational biopic "Come On! Marshall starred in a team girlfriend, she was very involved in the role, after all, in the entire crew, including those male actors, she can be regarded as the most profound understanding of rugby.

Mara once described to Vogue magazine that she was "painful and shy" in her childhood, and the cure was to show herself more.

Marla was a staunch vegetarian and animal lover, and under her influence, many of her partners in film and television productions also began to adopt animals and gradually embrace vegetarianism.

Compile: Rex