Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn
“I was scared every single day on Brooklyn. I mean, you always get jitters, and you always get a little nervous before you do your first take, but there was something about shooting at home, so close to where I grew up. I was terrified.”
Saoirse is currently at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, and our gallery has been updated with the first images from the event. We’ll upload more as they are released, so make sure you keep an eye on our social networks for the heads up!
Thanks to our lovely friend Alexa, from brie-larson.org, our gallery has been updated with several high quality promotional stills from ‘Brooklyn’, as well as new behind the scenes images.
Saoirse has landed a spot on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in the Hollywood & Entertainment category, following her turn in ‘Brooklyn’. The annual list highlights “young entrepreneurs, breakout talents, and change agents in 20 different sectors”. Here is Forbes’ write-up:
Saoirse Ronan, 21
ActorSaoirse Ronan, known for her roles in “Atonement” and “The Lovely Bones” has set critics fluttering with ‘Brooklyn’, which many will expect will earn her a second Oscar nomination. The Irish-born Ronan makes her Broadway debut as Abigail Williams in “The Crucible” in 2016.
Saoirse attended the 27th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Gala last night, where she received the International Star Award and presented Desert Palm Achievement Award to actress Cate Blanchett, whom she previously worked with in the film ‘Hanna’ back in 2011.
We have added high quality screen captures of ‘The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey’. The film premiered on June 2007, and it starred Tom Berenger, Sarah Wildor, Thomas Briggs and Saoirse.
Our gallery has been updated with missing images from ‘The Lovely Bones’. Our previous screen captures were replaced by better quality versions and were also re-sorted. The additions include behind the scenes images, promotional stills and screen captures of DVD featurettes.
Saoirse talked to Brantley Bardin from Palm Springs Life about her journey through Brooklyn, receiving the International Star Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival and more, read it below:
With a face that seems to come from another era, one so expressive that it could have served her well as a great silent film star, Irish actress Saoirse Ronan creates characters and produces performances that writers describe as “ethereal” and “otherworldly.”
Offscreen, however, Ronan is disarmingly unpretentious and a creature very much of her time. She professes to love basketball, swimming, and surfing. Three of her favorite movies of the last year include the über-popular titles, Trainwreck, Spy, and Inside Out. Best of all, she’s charmingly prone to reflexive self-deprecation: When conversation turns to a quick discussion of her rhapsodic pale, blue eyes, she says with a wry lilt, “Ah, yes, my eyes. My selling point. I’m, actually, a terrible actress, but the blue eyes, for some reason, seem to keep me going!”
In many ways, it seems, the Emerald Isle actress (whose first name is pronounced SEAR-sha) is a normal, funny, and endearing young woman of 21. Her prodigious work, however, is as far from normal as Ireland is from the Ivory Coast. With its heady mixture of art house and major studio work, her filmography is one most actresses twice her age can only dream about.
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