Our gallery has been updated with several portraits that were missing. Most of them are additional images to sessions we had already added, and we have also uploaded Saoirse’s latest sessions for Variety.
Category: Photoshoots
Our gallery has been updated with over 80 tagged portraits of Saoirse from recent years. Some of these are additions to sessions we already had, others are completely new.
We have found a few more portraits of Saoirse from earlier this year that were missing in our photo gallery, and we have also added a new image of Saoirse and actress Kate Winslet for Variety to our archives.
Saoirse and a very talented group of actresses gathered earlier this month to talk with The Envelope about their films, their personal approaches to work, and their industry. Participating in the conversation were Cate Blanchett, Brie Larson, Helen Mirren, Charlotte Rampling and Lily Tomlin. A beautiful new portrait of Saoirse was released along with the article, and you can view it here.
Here are edited excerpts from the free-flowing conversation moderated by Times film writers Rebecca Keegan and Mark Olsen in which the actresses discuss the roles that hit too close to home, the secret alchemy of working with directors and how they know when to say “no.”
Keegan: Helen, you recently played gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in “Trumbo.” We’re in the L.A. Times building, which is where she worked. How do you think she would handle an actors roundtable?
Mirren: She’d certainly be wearing a hat … the difference would be that none of us would be relaxed because we would know that we had to obey not just what Hedda was requiring of us, but what our studios were requiring of us. I presume we’re all much, much freer than any of those actresses.
Blanchett: No, I was bought many, many years ago. Cheaply. 50 cents.
Keegan: It seems like there is more of an expectation of actors to share of their personal lives now, perhaps, than there was then. Saoirse, how do you strike that balance between wanting to be able to preserve something for yourself and also share a little bit of who you are?
Ronan: I started when I was very young. Even from the age of 12, the only thing that was important was actually the film, and that was the only thing that I was ever going to talk about. Naturally, as actors, we’re very, very open, we’re very emotional and so it’s easier to kind of be expressive…. But for me it’s important to protect my life outside of work.
Our gallery has been updated with a new photo session, and we have also added several missing photos from another photoshoot Saoirse did a couple of months ago as part of her promotion for ‘Brooklyn’. We keep finding new images, as they are all over the place, so we apologize for how long it’s taking us to upload them. If you happen to find anything we haven’t posted yet, please let us know through our social networks (Twitter & Facebook) and we’ll add them as soon as we can. Images from photo Session 029 have also been replaced by better quality versions.
I have added to the gallery two new beautiful portraits of Saoirse with director John Crowley and producer Finola Dwyer for Deadline’s The Contenders 2015. Check them out.
Photoshoots > 2015 > Session 037
Saoirse has recently talked to USA Today about her upcoming film, ‘Brooklyn’, in which she played her first Irish character. We have updated our photo gallery with a photo session that was releasedwith the article, and you can watch her interview below.
Photoshoots > 2015 > Session 036
NEW YORK — Until Brooklyn, Saoirse Ronan had never played an Irish character in a movie. But what could seem like a major casting oversight is actually no coincidence.
“There’s a phrase back at home, when something is ‘diddly idle,’ ” says Ronan, 21, with a grin. “That’s when someone tries to do this stereotypical Irish film, where everyone’s a farmer and we’ve never seen the big city.
“We’ve done that and seen that and most of the time, it feels quite flat,” she adds. “So I was waiting for something like this to come along.”
In the 1950s-set Brooklyn (opens Wednesday in New York and Los Angeles, before expanding nationwide Nov. 25), Ronan plays a young Irish woman named Eilis Lacey whose older sister, Rose, arranges for her to move to New York in hopes of finding better opportunities. Taking a job at a department store, enrolling in night class and falling for a sweet Italian boy, Tony (Emory Cohen), Eilis overcomes homesickness and embraces her city life — that is, until she’s called back to Ireland under grave circumstances, and must choose between her two homes and suitors (Domhnall Gleeson, as Irish beau Jim, who falls for her when she returns).
In a fun new article posted by The New York times, several artists talk about their first time watching ‘Star Wars’, including Saoirse – who, incidentally, autidioned for Episode VII. Read her experience below.
My friend Bill as a boy loved it. I had seen the newer ones, and you know [screws up face], so I thought that’s what “Star Wars” was. He sat me down and said no, no, no, no, no, you have no idea how brilliant this is. So I watched it for the first time [two months ago]. It was so beautiful — I loved it. And I cried when I saw Yoda. Hormones, hormones and “Star Wars.” That’s why children should watch “Star Wars” and not 21-year-old women, because you get very maternal toward Yoda. Super-maternal. I don’t care [that he is hundreds of years old]! He was so wise, but he looked after so many people. Someone needed to take care of him. And then he dies, and he passed on all this wisdom to Luke. Oh my God, I’m going to go watch it again.
Photoshoots > 2015 > Session 035
