In an interview with Deadline.com, Noomi Rapace, who played the central role of Lisbeth Sander in the Swedish film adaptations of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, discussed her role as well as the American version of the series that is currently being shot by director David Fincher.
"That's weird. They're doing it with a Swedish accent as well," she said. "That's also pretty weird. But I'm quite okay with it. I really knew in my heart that I totally loaned myself to her and she took over most of my life. When it was released and they started to talk about the remake, people asked me and I said. 'No, I'm done with her.' And then everybody came back to me and said, 'But it's David Fincher.' There can't be any reason to do it again. I don't want to repeat myself. Hopefully they will do something far away from our films."
Rapace also noted that having the books instead of just a script to work with proved to be advantageous: "I used it a lot. It's like you have the whole background, you can dig, and you can take things that are useful, and find some clues to who she is today and all that. Lisbeth is something between Noomi and something in the script."