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Kate Mara Leak
By Nate Hopper Published: Jul 1, 2015
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Between film shoots, international flights, and a family crisis, a lovely afternoon with Kate Mara. (That's Mare-uh. Not Marr-uh.)
Kate Mara and I swallowed up by a couple quicksand cushions, on the open-air back patio of a Manhattan hotel on a Saturday. The weather: coolly humid. The birds: chirping without concern. She seems in a bit of a rush, checking out in between shaking my hand and leading us here. She's been in New York for five days. Tomorrow she will fly to Belfast to shoot a film for two months. Her plan after this interview is to take a car back to her family's home upstate.
"Well, my family's dog, Betty Boop, died a couple days ago."
And with that, the birds stop chirping.
Not that she seems down. There's a steady hum to her cadence. "It was kind of crazy. I'm here doing a little Fantastic Four press. I went to the Met [Costume Gala], and I planned on going to see my family for two nights. The day I got there, the dog passed. I felt lucky to be there."
The Maras are a dog family. "Oh, my gosh. We've never not had them." Kate has two. She got them about twelve years ago. There's Bruno, and there's Lucius, who is a rescue, like Betty, who was four years younger than both of them. "I hate to say this, because I love my dog who's not a rescue, Bruno, but I got him before I really understood how desperately dogs need to be rescued," she says. "Now we're obsessed with the breed. Boston terriers are like little gremlins. But that's why I love them.
The picture is the background of her phone, which she hands to me. The dogs could be twins.
"Can you guess which one is Lucius?"
I point to the terrier with the slightly more austere cheekbones. Looks like a Lucius.
"Wow," she says. "You got it wrong."
Her drink is "hot water with, like, lots of lemon on the side." She sips it, in between curse-laden sentences and sniggers. She lies slack on the couch, legs uncrossed. We talk about whether she'll visit her family's Dublin farm in between workdays; her wisecracking Fantastic Four costars ("I don't really fuck with them. They fuck with me"); the serial mispronunciation by her "more proper" sister, Rooney, of the first a in Mare-uh ("We give her shit all the time"); her support of the Humane Society and Oceana; her veganism and gluten-freeism and belief that movie-theater-popcorn butter is sacrilege. ("That, to me, is gross. It makes the popcorn soggy, too.") She takes offense at my hypothesis that when she's training for a film and cannot eat movie-theater popcorn but brings a popcorn-pang palliative snack with her, she chooses carrots. ("No. Not carrots.")
So, how did it feel to lose to the Philadelphia Eagles 27–0 last year?
(The Eagles are the rivals of her, well, genealogy, which comprises two cornerstones of the National Football League. They are the intrastate rivals of the Pittsburgh Steelers, founded by her maternal great-grandfather in 1933, and the chief rivals of the New York Giants, founded by her paternal great-grandfather in 1925 and, gloriously, the losers of both games against the Eagles last season.)
"Yes, I am wearing a Giants shirt. Of course I'm a huge fan. It's never nice to lose against the Eagles. Never."
"You didn't hurt me. I'm not giving you the satisfaction."
She once said that her contract stipulates she cannot work during the Super Bowl—"People love that"—but she clarifies that it's an issue only if she's shooting in February. Though, yes, she asks to have the days surrounding the Super Bowl off, because one time—we hypothesize (incorrectly, it turns out) it's the championship game in which the Steelers defeated the Arizona Cardinals—she was working. "It's like missing the biggest family event of your life." I share a brief anecdote about a Steelers-loving friend who, a half hour after that game, returned home screaming with joy.
"Well, I'm sure you can relate to that . . . if your team won."
She's now spent more than half her thirty-two years working as a professional actress and is well past Brokeback Mountain and 24 and Entourage. After playing a power-thirsty reporter/seductress on House of Cards, giving such nuance to her character's neediness and savvy and posturing that she received an Emmy nomination (see: episode ten, in which she shrinks when confronted by her paramour's wife in one scene but in the next attempts to milk the confrontation for dominion over him); earning a preemptively scheduled-for-a-sequel superhero blockbuster in Fantastic Four and a Ridley Scott–directed space epic in the autumn; and wrapping two other films, Mara has a new agency. She can decide how she spends her time.
"I think I've become more aware of whom I'm going to spend three months of my life with," she says. "Why do I want to have that experience with that person? And what will it give me? Will it help me grow? I've started actually making a list of directors that I'm excited about—and now I'm not just waiting for them to have a movie but maybe creating one myself." The list is in the Notes section of her phone.
She motions for the check—not to cap the conversation but to prepare for maximal efficiency whenever it does end. Though soon after the waiter arrives, I tell her to go.
She bounces up. "Well, listen, thanks so much for my lemon water," she says. "It was a treat." She slicks the line and offers a hug and is gone.
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There can be few more awkward moments for an actress than filming a sex scene.
But Kate Mara tells Playboy she knows just how to lighten the mood.
The actress revealed she made special nipple pasties with Kevin Spacey's face on them to film a sex scene with the 'playful' actor.
Sultry: Kate Mara reveals her slender frame as she poses for Playboy
'I tried to get him to laugh by wearing pasties with his face on them,' she tells the magazine's 20 Questions section.
'Of course, because Kevin... always wins, her House Of Cards co-star did not laugh.
'He waited until the director said, "Cut" and then he laughed. Kevin has an amazing sense of humor, but he’s also a great professional and he’s really f***ing good at it.'
Kate, 31, covered up in a jumper for the famous men's magazine, but also posed in a futuristic bra top and matching skirt.
And she revealed that her family weren't always happy with her sometimes racy roles.
'They have a sense of humor about it,' said Kate, before revealing that wasn't always the case.
'They were very upset when I was 19 and had a scene in Nip/Tuck that showed only my back but suggested nudity,' she said.
All covered up: Kate kept her clothes on for the shoot
'I tried to explain that it’s acting and part of the craft, and if it’s important to the story and tastefully done, I will choose to do certain things.
'By the time House of Cards came along, my family had dealt with plenty of other difficult things to watch with my career and my sister’s career.'
Talking of her sister, actress Rooney Mara, Kate explained they are not competitive.
'We’re really close,' she said of the 28-year-old, who has been nominated for an Oscar, before admitting she would also like a nomination.
'But we were all together when we learned Rooney had gotten the nomination, and we all celebrated together,' she explained.
Revelations: Kate was talking to Playboy
'She and I have auditioned for some of the same parts, and we’ve actually checked with each other, like, "What time is your audition?" because it would be just awkward to see each other there.'
And Kate laughed off being confused for other stars.
'As a redhead, I’ve been confused with other redheads like Amy Adams—but hey, I’ll take that. She’s amazing.
'I had someone come up to me for an autograph and say, "I loved you in The Devil Wears Prada," but no, that’s not me either.
'I’ve signed autographs, and when I realized they thought I was someone else, I’ve actually called the other actor to tell them. Maybe I need to start asking who people think I am before I sign.'
Co-stars: Kevin Spacey and Kate appear onscreen together in House of Cards
Best of friends: Kate amused Kevin by wearing nipple pasties with his face on them for a scene
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This should remind viewers to tune in for the second season of House of Cards , premiering Friday.
Kate Mara strips down to her skivvies in the March 2014 issue of GQ . The 30-year-old actress, who plays a sex-favor-trading blogger in the acclaimed Netflix series, models Eres lingerie and a Topshop cardigan in one photo, completing her look with a Bettina Javaheri at Roseark necklace and Charlotte Olympia heels. Mara also shows off her hot body in T by Alexander Wang sweater and an Eres bikini.
While the photo shoot may be provocative, it pales in comparison to what House of Cards has in store.
"I mean, the dials were really high in the first season," she says of the critically acclaimed TV show, which earned Robin Wright a Golden Globe win in the Best Actress – Television Drama category. "[Series creator] Beau Willimon has a very big imagination. And he and our writing staff, I think they really pulled through this season. Because it's hard to top all the things that happened last season. Last year, before Season 1 came out, I had seen all the episodes; this year I haven't, so I'm just as excited to watch it like anyone else. Still, I think it's just as surprising and addictive. Hopefully, we'll see."
Mara says she "didn't shadow anyone" to prepare for her role. Instead, she consulted Willimon and executive producers David Fincher and Kevin Spacey .
"Being a journalist wasn't the most important thing for me. That was just her job—it could be anything. The most important aspect of Zoe that I felt I needed to understand and wrap my head around was her crazy drive and ambition," the actress explains. "Sitting around with Beau and Fincher and Kevin, just setting the backstories—that's where I got all of my information."
When Mara was shooting Season 2, she also filmed the movie Transcendence with Johnny Depp .
"We were shooting in the middle of the desert in the summer, in New Mexico, and it was 110 degrees," she says of the upcoming movie. "Outside all day in the sun and most of the guys playing the army guys were either ex-marines or had some sort of experience in the field."
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