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Saoirse’s Interview For The Huffington Post

The HuffingtonPost website has posted a new interview with Saoirse from the Sundance Film Festival in which she talks about “Brooklyn”, her film that just premiered in the festival this year. Read it below.

Saoirse Ronan speaks with a lovely lullaby accent and is up for talking about pretty much anything — how she used to think L.A. was “kind of shit,” how she doesn’t want to play the teenager who hasn’t been kissed or lost her virginity because she’s past those points in her life, and how “In America” is one of her favorite films.

But what she wants to talk about most is being Irish. Ronan had two films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, including “Brooklyn.” In the romance, she plays a young Irish immigrant who journeys to New York in the 1950s in search of a brighter future. Ronan’s character navigates her first love, homesickness and learning to fit in when she is very much an outsider. A sudden return to Ireland briefly sets her whole plan off track. The film garnered so much attention at the festival that it became one of this year’s top purchases — Fox Searchlight bought it for $9 million.

“I was waiting for the right Irish project to come along with the right Irish character,” she told HuffPost Entertainment in Park City. “I didn’t want it to be the stereotypical Irish film. I’ve been offered a few of those and I haven’t felt like they were special enough.”

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on Jan 31, 2015

Saoirse’s interview for RogerEbert.com

The website RogerEbert.com has just posted a new interview with Saoirse from Sundance Film Festival.

The poised, gifted Irish actress Saoirse Ronan took hold in larger public consciousness with her brilliant turn as the fanciful and tormented young fabricator Briony in Joe Wright’s excellent 2007 adaptation of Ian McEwan’s “Atonement.”

The precocious 13-year-old earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her judicious and sharp turn. She promptly launched a promising and highly unpredictable career that has shrewdly moved between intimate art house titles and larger budgeted works with leading directors such as Peter Jackson (“The Lovely Bones”), Wes Anderson (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”) and Wright (“Hanna”).

The 20-year-old actress continues to impress with two first-rate performances in two radically different works that each had world premieres at Sundance. She plays a young Irish émigré in “Brooklyn,” John Crowley’s emotionally buoyant and highly accomplished adaptation of Irish novelist Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel of the same name.

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on Jan 30, 2015

(Video) Saoirse talks to Variety about “Brooklyn”

Director John Crowley, Saoirse and Emory Cohen talk “Brooklyn” at the Variety Studio at Sundance.

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on Jan 29, 2015

Saoirse’s Interview for Sundance Institute

The Sundance Institute website has posted a new interview in which Saoirse talks about “Stockholm, Pennsylvania” and “Brooklyn”, her two films that are premiering during the festival this year. Read it below.

Saoirse Ronan is ready for the second act of her career. Over a decade after first appearing on Irish television, and eight years after her take-notice performance in Atonement garnered Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations, Ronan is already a veteran movie actress. Yet somehow she’s also just 20 years old. With two new films in this year’s Festival, she’s leaving behind precocious child roles and embracing the knotty, less certain terrain of early womanhood. Rather than flip the script to present a familiarly confident, butterfly sexy, fully-formed new Saoirse, she’s instead exploring characters in transition – characters that to some degree shadow her own attentive emergence.

In Nikole Beckwith’s Stockholm, Pennsylvania, she plays Leia, a woman who’s returned to her parents and childhood home two decades after being abducted and raised by a kidnapper. She’s effectively an alien to her parents – she hasn’t been outside of a basement bunker in years, doesn’t know how to engage in public or social settings, and espouses a hippie apocalyptic belief system – but she’s also a smart, fully formed young adult. Hard as her parents try to re-raise her, to train her into being a dependent child again, she’s grown into her own, albeit disoriented, person. And in John Crowley’s Brooklyn, Ronan is Ellis, a young Irish woman who immigrates to America to start a new life in Brooklyn. From starting a new job in a department store to adapting to the new climate, culture, and crushing loneliness, Ellis’s days are trials, but also opportunities for growth, for adventure, and for love. When tragedy brings her back to her homeland, she’s caught between who she’s most comfortable being and who she might become. In both films, Ronan does far more than bank on the power of her famously translucent eyes – she freights the full weight of expressing emotions great and small, of embodying and representing complications of living that are perennially incomprehensible.

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on Jan 24, 2015

New promotional stills from “Brooklyn”

Our gallery has been updated with two new promotional stills from the film “Brooklyn”, which is set to premiere on January 22, during Sundance Film Festival.

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on Jan 07, 2015

Saoirse Ronan ‘absolutely extraordinary’ in Brooklyn lead role – author Colm Toibin

Oscar-nominee Saoirse Ronan has been described as “absolutely extraordinary” in her new role in Brooklyn by the man who penned the book.

The acclaimed actress (20) has finished filming on the movie based on the novel of the same name by award-winning Irish author Colm Toibin.

Co-starring Domhnall Gleeson, it tells the story of a young woman named Eilis who moves from a rural town in Ireland to the bright lights of Brooklyn as she tries to follow her dreams. Once in the US, Eilis is initially homesick, but soon settles down in the city and falls in love with an Italian plumber called Tony, who is played by Emory Cohen.

And having seen the first version of the movie, which saw Nick Hornby writing the screenplay, Toibin was left singing the praises of the Carlow native.

“It’s very, very emotional. It’s the first time I suppose she’s doing a part as a lead actress as an adult on her own and she’s absolutely extraordinary,” he said. “I thought, maybe this is for people who remember emigration but all the young people who came from the publishers and agency in London, they were all in tears of the choice she had to make. Was she going to stay in Ireland or was she going to go back to Brooklyn and the guy, the American actor Emory Cohen plays it as pure charm. He’ll do anything to win her.”

He also said there was wonderful chemistry between her and the ‘Stars Wars’ actor, who’s quickly becoming the toast of Hollywood and plays Saoirse’s love interest in the film.

“Domhnall Gleeson in Ireland plays it the other way around (to Cohen). He is just so sincere, so honest, so decent that he would mean pure stability and he sort of needs her and she can see that every word he says is true. So they’re playing the opposite ways against each other and she has to decide which way to go,” Toibin told Newstalk’s Pat Kenny.

The cast also includes Jim Broadbent as the village priest and Julie Waters as Ronan’s mum with the production shot in locations including Enniscorthy in Wexford and Dublin.

Set in 1950’s Ireland, the shoot then moved on to Montreal in Canada with the movie scheduled for release in early 2015 with Toibin saying the only thing left to do is add the music score to the film.

Author Toibin will shortly publish his eight novel, which is entitled Nora Webster.

(Source: Independent.ie)

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on Oct 02, 2014

(Photo) ISPCC Brown Thomas Fashion Show

Saoirse attended the ISPCC Brown Thomas Fashion Show yesterday in Dublin, Ireland. She talked to Louis Walsh about her recent project, Brooklyn, and mentioned she isn’t working on any other film at the moment.

“I’m not doing anything at the moment. I finished ‘Brooklyn’ a couple of months ago. It was amazing and it was probably the toughest job I’ve ever done because it was set in Ireland, because it’s about an Irish girl, because it was the journey that my parents went through and that I’m kind of going through right now.”

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on Sep 06, 2014