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Noomi’s Secret source

It’s a little over a decade since Noomi Rapace’s international breakthrough as Lisbeth Salander, the computer-hacker cyber-goth avenger in the three Swedish films made from Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series.

In the time since, there’s been a Hollywood remake of the first story, , and an adaptation of the fourth – not written by Larsson, who died in 2004 – . But the Lisbeths in those bigger, slicker films – Rooney Mara and Claire Foy – couldn’t match the intensity of Rapace in the role.

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