Kate Mara on the cover of Manhattan magazine’s May 2014 issue

On her sister Rooney Mara:

“There’s something about having the girl closest to me in my life also experiencing the exact same job—I know how unique that is. I don’t take it for granted at all.”

On the end of her House of Cards role:

“I had a lot of people who love the show say, ‘I knew it was going to happen, but I thought it would happen at the end of this season or at the end of another season—we were not ready for that’…and that’s very flattering.”

On her role in the Fantastic Four reboot:

“The whole thing will be different than anything I’ve ever done…I really loved [director] Josh Trank’s take on it, and I’m a fan of his last film, Chronicle, which was like an anti-superhero movie—really dark, which is what I like. I like things that are rooted in reality and that are dark and not what you expect. And I think that that’s probably what Fantastic Four will be.”