Our gallery has been updated with several gorgeous portraits of Saoirse taken at BFI London Film Festival. Thanks to Luciana, from winona-ryder.org, for sending them our way.
Photoshoots > 2015 > Session 030
We have updated our gallery with the first batch of images of Saoirse at BFI London Film Festival, where she attended a photocall, a press conference and a premiere for the film ‘Brooklyn’. Thanks to Luciana, from winona-ryder.org, for sending some of them our way!
Public Appearances > 2015 > ‘Brooklyn’ Photocall – BFI London Film Festival (October 12)
Public Appearances > 2015 > ‘Brooklyn’ Press Conference – BFI London Film Festival (October 12)
Public Appearances > 2015 > ‘Brooklyn’ Premiere – BFI London Film Festival (October 12)
Public Appearances > 2015 > ‘Brooklyn’ Press Conference – BFI London Film Festival (October 12)
Public Appearances > 2015 > ‘Brooklyn’ Premiere – BFI London Film Festival (October 12)
Selina Wilken from Hypable had the chance to talk to Saoirse during the BFI London Film Festival, and the interview is already online. They talked about Brooklyn, female directors, stories from the Atonement set and more!
Why ‘Brooklyn’ is Saoirse Ronan’s most personal project yet
Saoirse Ronan describes Brooklyn as, “Very challenging, but the most rewarding film I’ve ever done.”“Just the effect it has on me… I don’t know what it is, I’m still very much awash with emotion,” she admits. “Eilis, and Eilis’ story, is just a huge part of who I am.”
In the past, Ronan has always looked for roles that allowed her to step away from herself and play varied, interesting characters. But in Brooklyn, she really found herself empathizing with Eilis on a personal level. “And I think because it was so close to me, to not have any separation at all was actually a lot scarier, and it was a lot more vulnerable,” she reflects.
“Someone said to me that it’s a very delicate film and it’s such a great way to describe it, cause simple was never the right word,” says Ronan. “It’s an incredibly emotional film. We all know what that feeling [of leaving home] is like, what that heaviness is like.”
“The realization sets in that you can’t go back, that once you’ve made that step, you can never go back to how it was, before you left, and you can’t prepare yourself for that, you know? That’s not something that anyone tells you about really, when you leave home.”
A new lovely trailer for the upcoming ‘Brooklyn’ has just been posted on youtube! Watch it below:
Saoirse Ronan, John Crowley, Colm Tóibín, Nick Hornby and Finola Dwyer attended the London Film Festival press conference for ‘Brooklyn’ today, October 12, and you can watch the full video below:
Our gallery has been updated with a new portrait session of Saoirse for the promotion of ‘Brooklyn’. The images were taken a few days ago in New York City, where she’ll be living until her Broadway debut in ‘The Crucible’ on February 26, 2016.
Photoshoots > 2015 > Session 029
While doing press for the upcoming acclaimed ‘Brooklyn’, Saoirse sat down with Jordan Ruimy from AwardsDaily to discuss the film and you can read the interview below:
It is no surprise that Saoirse Ronan gives one of the most deeply felt and wonderful female performances of the year in Brooklyn. After all, this is an actress who was nominated for an Oscar when she was just 13 years old for her pivotal role in Joe Wright’s Atonement. “When Atonement happened I was just a kid, and I can’t say I expected the nomination to happen” she tells me. Now 21 years old, Ronan has blossomed into everything we thought she could be. In recent years she has starred in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, kicked serious cojones in Hanna and most recently was cast as Zero’s secret crush in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. This all in a span of just six years.
Brooklyn is a beautifully made film about good, well-intentioned people trying to do their best in life. The gorgeously crisp and colorful cinematography by Yves Belanger is to die for, as is the direction by John Crowley, which is stylishly slick enough to harken back to a time when handsomely made, feel-good pictures worked marvelously well in Hollywood. This is an old-fashioned movie done right, a heartfelt effort by people who very much care about story and character. The screenplay was written by Nick Hornby, and captures his usual impeccable ear for small talk. Saoirse Ronan plays Ellis, an Irish girl who moves to New York to start a new life, but finds herself doubting that decision once there. The movie will make her a household name, and there’s already talk of a possible Oscar nominations for her performance –- which originally had Rooney Mara cast in the lead role –- and the film itself, which is exactly the kind of crowd-pleasing treat the Academy eyes year after year. “I pronounce it Sersha,” she tells me of her name. We might as well learn it well because a performer with this much natural, freewheeling talent and personality doesn’t come along often.
The 34th annual Vancouver International Film Festival finished with a gala screening and the announcement of the audience award winners. Two Irish films were among the winners, with Brooklyn, directed by John Crowley, named winner of the Rogers People’s Choice Award as the festival’s overall most popular film, and Lenny Abrahamson’s Canadian/Irish co-production Room winning Most Popular Canadian Feature.
Director John Crowley’s Irish immigrant love story Brooklyn, acquired by Fox Searchlight at Sundance, has won the top audience award at the Vancouver Film Festival.
Adapted from Colm Toibin’s 2009 novel by Nick Hornby, Brooklyn stars Saoirse Ronan and Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor Domhnall Gleeson. Brooklyn is set in 1950s Ireland and centers on a young woman (Ronan) trapped in between two men and two countries, and testing her commitment to true love and her duty to her home country.
Emory Cohen, Julie Walters and Jim Broadbent also star. Vancouver audiences also named the Brie Larson-starrer Room the best Canadian feature.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
