It seems impossible, but somehow Rooney Mara had never tried pie until she was 31 years old.
The actress, who is now 32, revealed in a recent interview that she had her first taste of pie while shooting David Lowery’s “A Ghost Story” in 2016. Unfortunately for her, the scene in the movie required her to eat not just a slice, but a whole pie.
So how is it possible she’d never tasted pie before?
“I just don’t really have a sweet tooth and I was a really, really strange, picky child,” she explained to the Los Angeles Times. “Something about pie always grossed me out and I just never tried it before. And this came along and I tried making them switch it to something else, but David really wanted it to be pie, so we did pie.”
She added that it was “my first and last pie.”
According to Vulture, the pie scene, in which Mara’s character stress-eats a chocolate cream pie after her husband dies, lasts about five minutes.
“The first one, we did two takes of, and she took a couple bites in each one,” Lowery told Vulture. “Then she sat down, and that [shot] was one take. We were like, ‘Keep going until you can’t eat anymore.’ The script said she eats the whole thing. I think she had a couple bites left, but we’d tortured her long enough.”
It definitely wasn’t the ideal situation for a first-time pie eater.