<Li> Yorick van Wageningen as Nils Bjurman: </Li> <Dl> <Dd> As Salander's legal guardian, he uses his position to sexually abuse and eventually rape her . Salander turns the tables on him, torturing him and branding him as a rapist . Fincher wanted the character to be worse than a typical antagonist, although he did not want to emulate the stereotypical "mustache - twirling pervert". The director considered Van Wageningen to be the embodiment of a versatile actor--one who was a "full - fledged human being" and a "brilliant" actor . "He was able to bring his performance from a logical place in Bjurman's mind and find the seething morass of darkness inside," Fincher stated . Bjurman's multifaceted psyche was the main reason Van Wageningen wanted to play the role . The Dutch actor said, "This character goes through a lot and I wasn't quite sure I wanted to go through all that . I started out half way between the elation of getting to work with David Fincher and the dread of this character, but I was able to use both of those things . We both thought the most interesting route would be for Bjurman to seem half affable . The challenge was not in finding the freak violence in the guy but finding the humanity of him ." </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> As Salander's legal guardian, he uses his position to sexually abuse and eventually rape her . Salander turns the tables on him, torturing him and branding him as a rapist . Fincher wanted the character to be worse than a typical antagonist, although he did not want to emulate the stereotypical "mustache - twirling pervert". The director considered Van Wageningen to be the embodiment of a versatile actor--one who was a "full - fledged human being" and a "brilliant" actor . "He was able to bring his performance from a logical place in Bjurman's mind and find the seething morass of darkness inside," Fincher stated . Bjurman's multifaceted psyche was the main reason Van Wageningen wanted to play the role . The Dutch actor said, "This character goes through a lot and I wasn't quite sure I wanted to go through all that . I started out half way between the elation of getting to work with David Fincher and the dread of this character, but I was able to use both of those things . We both thought the most interesting route would be for Bjurman to seem half affable . The challenge was not in finding the freak violence in the guy but finding the humanity of him ." </Dd> <Ul> <Li> Joely Richardson as Harriet Vanger: </Li> </Ul>

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