Director
David Fincher has narrowed down his search for the perfect Lisbeth Salander to four surprising newcomers. The actress Fincher chooses will play the title role in "
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," based on the first book in Stieg Larsson's sensational millennium trilogy. Earlier this week, it was announced that
Daniel Craig would
play journalist Mikael Blomvist, but fans of the record-breaking book series and Swedish movies based on them are on the edge of their seats to learn who will play his counterpart, petite, pixie-haired hacker Lisbeth Salander. Hollywood is also watching this casting decision carefully, since the actress who wins the role will have a shot at international fame and the chance to star in a trilogy, assuming the other two books become part of a franchise. And some
very big names that have been floated as contenders for the role, including
Ellen Page,
Carrie Mulligan, and
Natalie Portman are seemingly no longer in the running. Let's meet the four young women who are practicing their Swedish accents in hopes of getting the role
one agent told The Daily Beast is "The biggest role for an actress in the last five or six years."
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