Saoirse reunited with Timothée Chalamet! The British Film Institute and Vanity Fair held a special event at the BFI Southbank on Wednesday evening (December 18) in London.
Rita dedicates her radio performance of “Winter Coat” to her son, George. Blitz tells the story of a mother and son separated by war, and their heartfelt journey to come back together.
On Tuesday (November 19), Saoirse attended the 2024 ELLE Women in Hollywood event at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. Take a look at the photos in the gallery!
Saoirse Ronan Wants to Embrace the Mess
ELLE – The Irish actress became an unlikely American everygirl. But at 30, she’s painting with a darker palette.
Saoirse Ronan has made a career of being approachable. Whether she’s playing spunky Jo March in Little Women or the sullen, Manic Panic-ed titular role in Lady Bird, her appeal has always been rooted in her everygirlness. And yes, perched next to me in the booth at a Lower East Side restaurant, she is indeed appealingly regular, from her jeans and T-shirt down to the hair tie encircling her wrist.But two unexpected new parts, both of which are generating awards buzz, may soon upend that perception. In Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun, which Ronan coproduced, she gives a raw portrayal of a woman struggling to get sober. Her husband, the actor Jack Lowden (who’s also a coproducer), read the memoir the film is based on and suggested it could be an onscreen vehicle for Ronan. The role was personal, she says, because loved ones of hers have shared that struggle. She has come to see addiction as an illness, as opposed to a character flaw. “Especially if you’re young, it’s very hard not to see it in that way,” she says. “Because if you don’t suffer from your brain essentially being altered by a substance, then you don’t understand why they can’t just choose not to live this life. You don’t understand why they don’t want to, or don’t feel like it’s worth choosing you over it. There’s a lot of confusion that’s born out of it, and resentment, which is what I had, and I still have to a certain extent.” Despite her initial hesitation, she says, “the logical part of me knew that by stepping into the psychology of someone going through it, I could take some of the sting out of it for myself. It really was a way for me to heal from my own wounds.”
VOGUE – Saoirse Ronan is “a person with the aura of a star but none of the pretence,” finds Reni Eddo-Lodge in the Irish actor’s November 2024 British Vogue profile – unfathomably her first. As the erstwhile child star-turned-Oscar nominee, whose talent has been compared to that of Hollywood matriarch Meryl Streep, took to the stage at this magazine’s Forces of Fashion event, Ronan, in a sinuous red dress, indeed had the charisma of a performer, but the warmth of a dear friend.
In conversation with the legendary British costume designer Jacqueline Durran, whom a 12-year-old Ronan met on the set of Atonement and has since worked with on Hanna, Little Women and Blitz, Ronan is just as keen to steer the tête-à-tête towards Durran’s work on Barbie (“it wouldn’t have been a film that interested me at all unless it was directed by Greta [Gerwig]”) than she is her own career. Still, the old acquaintances find a happy medium in delighting over their most recent collaboration on Steve McQueen’s new take on the quintessential Second World War film. “It was about looking at all of the people in London as individuals and thinking of the different stories, because it’s quite easy to forget that it was millions struggling,” notes Durran of the importance of cutting through the rose-tinted nostalgia. The costumes, meanwhile, are as detail-driven as we’ve come to expect from Jacqueline, who says the watchword on set was “authenticity”, particularly when considering the surprisingly overt glamour that was “part of the war effort to keep up appearances.”
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On Saturday (October 19) night, Saoirse attended the fourth annual Academy Museum Gala held at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California.
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