Mara goes box office as Giants play with fire

ROONEY MARA will become a big screen star on both sides of the Atlantic this weekend, having accepted the poisoned chalice that is Lisbeth Salander, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Mara goes box office as Giants play with fire

The film role made famous two years ago by Noomi Rapace in the original Swedish adaptation of that big-selling novel is a huge pair of natty, goth shoes to fill.

But then Mara, 26, is used to inheriting great expectations. She is the flesh and blood of two of the NFL’s most storied institutions: the Pittsburgh Steelers, founded in 1933 by Art Rooney, and the New York Football Giants, founded in 1925 by Tim Mara.

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