Category: Interviews

Saoirse and Ian McEwan talk to The Times

Saoirse and Ian McEwan have given an interview to The Times! You need to register to their website in order to read everything, but we have a snippet below. A new picture has been released with it, and we’ve added it to our gallery.

The actress and the novelist, it quickly becomes clear, are each other’s best audiences. Saoirse Ronan tells Ian McEwan that when reading his novels she is always struck by his “incredible understanding of the mind of a woman”. McEwan, for his part, says she has “a wonderful ability” to convey what his characters are thinking without even speaking.

Having embraced delightedly, the pair are in a Soho hotel room talking about his new adaptation of his 2007 novel On Chesil Beach, in which she stars. They have known each since Saoirse (pronounced “Sursha”) played Briony in the film of his Atonement in 2007. She was just 13 yet was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar.

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by Jess

on May 13, 2018

(Photo) “On Chesil Beach” featured in Vanity Fair

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Vanity Fair recently had a feature on ‘On Chesil Beach’ along with a new portrait of Saoirse and Billy Howle. You can view it right in our gallery.

With On Chesil Beach, which will be in theaters next month, Saoirse Ronan sustains an unbroken streak of acting excellence that has encompassed The Grand Budapest Hotel, Brooklyn, and Lady Bird. The film is set in the narrowest sliver of historical time, the immediately pre-youthquake Britain of 1962, when, as Ian McEwan writes in the novella upon which the movie is based, “to be young was a social encumbrance . . . a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.”

But the picture, directed by Dominic Cooke and co-starring Billy Howle, is tender toward its virginal newlywed protagonists rather than mocking and mean. “Satire creates distance. I wanted the reader, and now the viewer, to get right up close to them,” says McEwan, who handled the screenplay adaptation himself.

In bearing and appearance—”certainly beautiful, but in a sculpted, strong-boned way,” as the book has it—Ronan is uncannily right for the role of Florence Ponting, the violinist who takes the hand (but not willingly much else) of her groom, Edward Mayhew. “The physicality of Florence is so important, because there is so much that isn’t said,” Ronan explains. “And Ian writes with such love and understanding. I don’t think there are many films that have tackled this subject this way. Usually, it’s either a caricature, like American Pie, or overly sentimental.”

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by Jess

on Apr 18, 2018

Saoirse and Elizabeth Saltzman cover The Hollywood Reporter

This week, The Hollywood Reporter released their 25 Most Powerful Stylists issue, featuring Saoirse and her stylist Elizabeth Saltzman. We uploaded the photoshoot along with the video/interview, which you can watch below.

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by Jess

on Mar 23, 2018

Saoirse talks to the Irish Times

It was published today by the Irish Times a new interview with Saoirse in which she talks about fame, Hollywood scandals, the abortion referendum and more. Read it below:

You wouldn’t guess that Saoirse Ronan carried the expectations of a nation on her narrow shoulders. The art of being Saoirse is, perhaps, the art of not seeming disconcerted. Her acting conceals effort. She appears to drift through performances on waves of unpretentious sincerity. Without kicking up scandal, causing kerfuffle or exposing any aggressive elbows, she has secured three Oscar nominations before the age of 24. (Jennifer Lawrence is the only other person to have managed that feat.)

Her turn in Atonement scored a best supporting nod in 2008. Two years ago, during the annus mirabilis of Irish cinema, she was nominated in the best actress race for Brooklyn. Now, up in the same category for playing a difficult teenager in Greta Gerwig’s wonderful Lady Bird, she has her best shot yet at the title.

When I meet her, I’ve just come from fellow nominee Daniel Kaluuya at another press bash. He said to say hello.

“Ach, I love him,” she burbles. “I said it to him the other day: ‘You don’t seem fazed by it at all.’”

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by Jess

on Feb 18, 2018

(Video) Saoirse Ronan – The Story So Far

Just this week we announced that a TV special with Saoirse would air in Ireland and here it is, ‘The Story So Far’! The Irish actress sits down with Karen Koster for an in-depth interview about growing up in Carlow, making it in Hollywood and landing her third Oscar nomination for the acclaimed Lady Bird. Watch the 20-minute video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JVrJ3iHIa

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by Jess

on Feb 18, 2018

AnOther Magazine: The Prodigious Talent Set for Stardom Since Childhood

February has been a great month for Saoirse fans so far, and to add to the list of good moments we have a new photoshoot and interview to AnOther Magazine! Check out the pictures in our gallery and read the article below:

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When she stepped out in front of an audience of millions on Saturday Night Live last December, Saoirse Ronan began by setting the record straight on her endlessly mispronounced first name, with a musical ditty that explained “Saoirse” rhymes with “inertia”. With its Gaelic jumble of vowels, it’s been butchered in multiple ways by talk-show hosts and spellchecks across the globe. The Irish 23-year-old’s impish stint as ringleader on the legendary comedy show previously hosted by the likes of Scarlett Johansson and Kristen Stewart was something of a clue to her currently soaring trajectory in Hollywood, but it was also the moment the gifted actress was finally allowed to be funny. With her ethereal looks, obsessive dedication and litmus-paper sensitivity on screen, most directors seem to have taken Ronan’s abilities too seriously to send comedies, or even just regular, messy teenage girls, her way. Carried onto a film set before she could walk, the actress christened “Meryl reborn” by Ryan Gosling has a habit of acting veterans twice her age off the screen, playing a kaleidoscopic range of strong, unpredictable characters and complicated misfits. There was the feral teen assassin raised in a frozen wilderness in Joe Wright’s Hanna; a southern gothic drifter in Ryan Gosling’s neon-drenched noir fairytale Lost River; a 200-year-old vampire in Neil Jordan’s Byzantium; a deeply homesick Irish immigrant in John Crowley’s Brooklyn; and the solemn upper-class English girl with impeccable clipped vowels whose single wicked lie precipitates tragedy in Atonement, a role that won her her first Oscar nomination aged just 13.

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on Feb 15, 2018

“Saoirse Ronan: The Story So Far” to air in Ireland

It has been reported by Xposé that a TV special called “Saoirse Ronan: The Story So Far” will air this Friday (Feb. 16) at 8pm on TV3 Ireland!

Saoirse will chat to Xposé‘s Karen Koster, sharing the highs and lows of her life and career so far.

You can see a sneak peak below, where the Irish actress shared how she found out she was Oscar nominated for the third time thanks to her work in “Lady Bird”:

How did #SaoirseRonan find out she was Oscar nominated? Well, there was a confetti cannon involved… 🎉 'Saoirse Ronan: The Story So Far' airs this Friday at 8pm on @TV3Ireland @LadyBirdMovie hits Irish cinemas on the 23rd of February. @Universal_Irl pic.twitter.com/yTrq3qohuX

— Xposé (@Xpose) February 12, 2018

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by Jess

on Feb 15, 2018

(Videos) Lady Bird Press Tour Part 2 – Compilation Post

A few days ago Saoirse recorded what we’re going to call part 2 of the Lady Bird press tour, granting interviews to a lot of entertainment & film channels. Here’s a compilation post with what has been released so far: