tonight, the much-anticipated film "the girl with e dragon taoo" based on the novel by stieg larsson. we have the director david fincher, the actors rooney mara, daniel cig, christher plummer, stellan skarsgard and robin wright. >> no one her particurl kes her. i find it's much better if she works from home. >> but you told her i wanted to meet with her. >> but i've told her many more times i'd prefer her not to meet clients. >> you like her? >> very much. she's one of the best investigators i have, as you saw from her repor >> but? >> she's different. >> in what way? >> in every way. lisbeth? >> how do you do. >> something wrong with the report? >> no, it was quite thorough. but i'm also interested in what's not in it. >> there's nothing not in it. >> your opinion of him isn't it. >> he's clean in my opinion. >> you mean he's hygienic. >> he represents himself to be. >> i was fascinated with the fact that, you know, a 60-yeaold man, 58-year-old women, 17-ye-old girls were all finding something about her that was freeing or empowering in some kind of way and it had been kind of sold t

stieg larsson, am i saying that right? >> yeah, that's right. >> jimmy: stieg larsson. yeah.riller mystery. there's some politics in there. >> jimmy: yeah. it's really well done. >> a lot of nudity, violence. >> jimmy: a lot of nudity. yeah, yeah, yeah. and jeremy renner, was also just on here, a lot of nudity for him, too. [ laughter ] the guy had a giant hole in his pants. are you going to get a break for the holidays or anything? >> hopefully. yeah. >> jimmy: do you like christmas? do you have a big family get-together? do you -- >> we do. >> jimmy: -- get to relax? >> we do, you know, my dad is one of 11 children. >> jimmy: no. >> and -- there's over -- >> jimmy: 11 kids? >> yeah. >> jimmy: holy mackerel. >> yeah. [ laughter ] my grandma is like that big. she has 11 kids. >> jimmy: oh my gosh. hopefully grandma takes a snooze this year, yeah, just relaxes. >> well, there's over 40 grandchildren. and every christmas eve we go to their house. and they have a santa claus come. and we sit on his lap to get our presents. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: wait, what? is it just a stranger

look of the main female character, elisabeth which is a problem for the long- time partner of stieg larsson. lots of intrigue here. eva and larson were a couple for 30 years. they never got married. he died without a will at age 50. his brother and father inherited the rights to his work. they came up with all of the merchandising deals. ava said larson would not have sold clothing. he would have used the buzz to call attention to violence against women which are major themes in the book. she's very unhappy about this. >> that was the law. he didn't even get along with his father. >> they were estranged. >> unbelievable. >> different laws. >> thanks. >> can't wait to see the movie. >> me neither. >> the time is 6:38. in nine minutes, an update on the earthquake repairs of national cathedral. we'll talk with the headstone mason about the massive work underway. >> another warm day headed our way. high of about 61. a look ahead to the holiday forecast coming up next. you're watching 9news now. >> thanks for waking up with us. we're glad you're here. i'm wondering, you had shown yesterday some