Mara denies calling 'SVU' 'awful' and 'stupid'

Rooney Mara has been getting all kinds of flack for apparently bashing "Law & Order: SVU."

But did she actually diss the show like so many are reporting?

No! "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" star never slammed the NBC procedural.

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The New York Post's Page Six claimed earlier this week that the 26-year-old actress dissed the time she worked on "SVU" in a new interview in Allure magazine. "It was so awful. So stupid," Mara said, according to the gossip column.

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Well, turns out she never said anything of the sort.

"That was my first job," Mara says in a new interview with The Huffington Post. "It couldn't have been more exciting for me. It's an experience I hold very dear to my heart."

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Mara was also taken to task for apparently trashing her episode as "ridiculous" because she played a young woman who beats up fat people with her boyfriend.

Rooney Mara on 'SVU' role: It was stupid

"If anything, I didn't mean that the storyline was ridiculous; I meant that humanity is ridiculous," Mara explained. "I know that 'Law & Order' makes their episodes out of real things that are happening in the city, so to me, by 'ridiculous' I meant that humanity is ridiculous. People are awful to one another; and to me, I find it ridiculous."

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