The Interview Magazine website has just posted a new interview with Saoirse in which she talks about her Sundance Film Festival experience and her upcoming film “Brooklyn”. Read it below.

“I think Sundance is one of my favorite festivals to go to even though it’s manic,” says Irish actress Saoirse Ronan. “It has more of the atmosphere of what it’s like on a film set—it’s not glamorous, there are no big, glitzy premieres, we’re all dressing the way we’d dress if we were going to work,” she continues. “I think it’s good for people who aren’t in the industry to see that all that stuff on the red carpet is such a small part.”

This year marks Saoirse’s first time at the festival, and she’s hardly slacking. The 20-year-old is promoting two very different films, both of which have already sold to distributors. In Stockholm, Pennsylvania, Ronan plays a young woman who was kidnapped and imprisoned for the majority of her life; in Brooklyn, the Oscar-nominated actress is Eilis Lacey, an Irish girl who, struggling to establish an identity for herself in her hometown, decides to immigrate to New York.

While both films were well reviewed at the Sundance, Brooklyn received a standing ovation. An epic bildungsroman, the film is sentimental without being sickly sweet. It isn’t until Eilis opens at drawer and the audience collectively gasps that you realize how enraptured you are.

Directed by John Crowley, with a script adapted from Colm Tóibín’s book by Nick Hornby, Brooklyn co-stars Julie Walters and Jim Broadbent. Domhnall Gleeson (Unbroken) and Emory Cohen (A Place Beyond the Pines) play the two men Eilis must choose between.
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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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