Saoirse attended a special screening of the film ‘Brooklyn’ yesterday, which was hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. We have updated our photo gallery with images from the event.
Saoirse and ‘Brooklyn’ are nominated in several categories for British Independent Film Awards. The Moët British Independent Film Awards 2015 will take place on Sunday 6 December at Old Billingsgate. Check below the categories.
Best Actress
- Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl
- Carey Mulligan for Suffragette
- Charlotte Rampling for 45 Years
- Marion Cotillard for Macbeth
- Saoirse Ronan for Brooklyn
Best Supporting Actor
- Ben Whishaw for The Lobster
- Brendan Gleeson for Suffragette
- Domhnall Gleeson for Brooklyn
- Luke Evans for High-Rise
- Sean Harris for Macbeth
Scott Feinberg moderated a conversation with Saoirse about her career after a screening of ‘Brooklyn’ at the Savannah Film Festival last week. THR has recently shared the video on their website, and you can watch it below.
Our gallery has been updated with a couple of new promotional stills from ‘Brooklyn’, as well as the first behind the scenes image of Saoirse. Head over there and check them out!
Saoirse has recently spoken to Backstage magazine about ‘Brooklyn’, and the article has just been released. Our gallery was updated with a photoshoot featured in the issue, and you can read her interview below.
Eilis Lacey is a girl on the cusp of womanhood in “Brooklyn,” director John Crowley’s adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel. Leaving behind her rural hometown in Ireland, Eilis is heading into an uncertain future in 1950s New York. And though the period setting might seem distancing, the story of growth and the nature of home spoke directly to star Saoirse Ronan.
“As you leave home, you’re never able to take that step back,” Ronan says. “The realization that I had is that no matter what, once you have an experience that is separate from your home life and from your family and where you grew up, you will never be the same again. You will never be the person that you’d have been had you stayed.”
Sitting over hors d’oeuvres at Manhattan’s Crosby Street Hotel, Ronan is referring not only to screenwriter Nick Hornby’s script (which charts Eilis’ move to Brooklyn; her first love; and her return to Ireland upon a family member’s death), but also to her own life. When Crowley first approached her about the role several years ago, Ronan was in the midst of planning a permanent move from her parents’ house in Dublin to London. Much like Eilis’ emigration to Brooklyn, Ronan’s move to London was her unequivocal leap into independence and adulthood—one she made just before filming “Brooklyn.”
We have a new great interview of Saoirse and she talks about Brooklyn, Ireland and moving away from her home. Also, be sure to check out the beautiful portrait in our gallery.
It’s a mystery to Saoirse Ronan why she’s one of the few Irish actresses to burst onto the world’s stage in the last 50 years or so.
Irish actors are another story: They’ve been coming up in droves. Colin Farrell, Michael Fassbender (who is half German, but was raised in Ireland from the age of 2), Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea and Gabriel Byrne are just some of the Emerald Isle’s menfolk to find Hollywood success. A few Irish actresses have, too, albeit to a lesser extent — among them Sinead Cusack, Fionnula Flanagan, Fiona Shaw and Brenda Fricker, who won an Academy Award for her role in “My Left Foot” (1989). But at least in the United States, none are exactly household names. The last Irish actress to really make a splash in the United States was Maureen O’Hara, who recently turned 95.
“I think a lot of it comes down to luck; I think a lot of it comes down to timing,” Ms. Ronan, who is 21, said recently over breakfast at the Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo. “I don’t know why some of the male actors moved ahead while we didn’t.”
Ms. Ronan’s might not be a household name quite yet, but that’s partly because Americans remain largely incapable of pronouncing it (it’s “SEER-sha”). She was the young baker with the Mexico-shaped birthmark in “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” the luminous teenage assassin in “Hanna,” the slain girl who narrates the “The Lovely Bones,” and the tweenage aristocrat who set the plot in motion in “Atonement,” a performance that earned Ms. Ronan an Oscar nomination at the age of 13. Continue reading
A new clip for ‘Brooklyn’ has been released featuring Saoirse and her co-star Domhnall Gleeson, watch it below:
Here is the full video of Saoirse’s screentalk during the BFI London Film Festival she chatted about starting acting young and more. Check it out.
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