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Rooney Mara should probably enjoy the next two months as much as she can as the second The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo hits theaters on December 21 she will immediately leap from relative unknown to the biggest actress in the world. And it seems like she's got an awesome attitude about the whole thing.

The 26-year-old's marketing push for the film has just launched, and in a way most actresses can only dream of -- a Vogue cover.

In the pages Mara is striking in designs from Marchesa, Alexander Wang, Calvin Klein and Vera Wang to name just a few. While the accompanying article is very light on personal revelations, it does detail just how rigorous the demands of playing heroine Lisbeth Salander for the film are. The actress had to be pierced (in unspeakable places), chop off her hair and bleach her eyebrows, and, perhaps hardest, drop some major weight from her already pin thin frame to play the near skeletal Salander.

Luckily, Mara has a wonderful friend and mentor in director David Fincher, who admits the studio refused to let him cast the actress in the role. In fact, he himself didn't even want to see her initially, having just worked with her on The Social Network. He assumed she was incapable and saw a slew of other ladies instead, including Scarlett Johansson, who he comments had an excellent audition.

With two more movies to go in the trilogy Mara is guaranteed a fair deal of work until at least 2015, also the date she can probably remove those piercings. Unless of course she likes them -- who knows?

Let us all just hope this is the first of many covers for the starlet as the cover, styled by Tonne Goodman and shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, is hands down one of the best Vogue has put out in years.

Rooney Mara: Playing with Fire [Vogue]