Our gallery has been updated with a set of portraits taken at the Toronto International Film Festival yesterday, as part of Saoirse’s promotion for the film ‘Brooklyn’, which screened a couple of days ago.
Photoshoots > 2015 > Session 015
Here is a new interview of Saoirse at the Toronto Film Festival and she talks about ‘Brooklyn’, feminism and working in New York.
Ronan is renewing her Oscar buzz with Brooklyn, a story about an Irish immigrant in 1950s New York City written by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity,About a Boy).
While at the Toronto International Film Festival for Brooklyn’s premiere, ETonline sat down with the young star to discuss dating, feminism, and what happened while filming in the same town where two escaped killers were found.
ETonline: How are you? All talked out yet?
Saoirse Ronan: You know I’m doing OK. I do always get sick every time before I do a press junket though. It’s like I’m allergic to press or something.
Oh, thanks.
Yea, I’m allergic to you. Stay away from me!
Such a sweet part of Brooklyn was how Tony (Emory Cohen) courts your character, Eilis. Watching it, I thought, that’s just not ever going to happen to me–or my girlfriends–today. Continue reading
Indiewire spoke with Saoirse during the Toronto Film Festival about ‘Brooklyn’ and why it hits so close to home. The interview contains spoilers.
Although the film is billed as a romance — and it very much is — there are all these wonderful female relationships within it, too, from Eilis’ mother and sister to the girls in the boardinghouse. Was that something that was attractive for you?
Absolutely, I’m glad you mentioned it, because no one else has been asking me about it. I’ve been trying to get it in. It’s great, we need to see more films where there is female interaction and it’s classed as entertainment and it doesn’t have to resort to something sexual or a competition or whatever. I think one of the things that a lot of journalists and critics and people have seemed to pick up on is there is no cattiness. The girls are snappy in the boardinghouse, but you’re all kind of in it together, and we all have dinner together.Really, for me, what I’ve experienced over the last couple of years is that the women in my life have been the ones who are helping me become the woman I will be one day, the kind of wisdom that they’ve passed on to me. Just little things, just small little things — my auntie Margaret, my mom, my auntie who is like ninety years old — all these incredible women in my life, they’re the ones who have been through the same things as me, fundamentally, and help me in what I’m doing. I think that’s a huge part, I think that’s the real heart of this actually, Eilis’ relationship with all these different women in her life, they’re really the ones that carry the story through.
By the time she gets to the end of the film, and she meets this young girl, she’s come full circle. She’s taken on the part that Eva [Birthistle] plays at the start. I think that’s so beautiful, and that’s so true. It happens in life, so often you don’t realize how you came full circle. You’re able to look back at things in retrospect and go, “Huh, I got through, and I’m able to pass this on to somebody else.” Continue reading
As we posted photos before, Saoirse and the cast from ‘Brooklyn’ attented the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and they stopped by during the red carpet to say a few words about the movie. Watch the interviews below:
Saoirse has arrived to the premiere of ‘Brooklyn’ at the Toronto International Film Festival! The images from the event have just started to come out, and we have uploaded the first batch to our photo gallery. She looks stunning! We’ll add more as we find them, so keep an eye out!
Public Appearances > 2015 > ‘Brooklyn’ Premiere at TIFF (September 13)
Saoirse is scheduled to attend the Irish premiere and a special screening of ‘Brooklyn’ in Ireland next month. Below you can find more information.
Brooklyn, the Oscar-tipped Saoirse Ronan-starring adaptation of the Colm Tóibín bestseller, is to have its Irish premiere at Dublin’s Savoy Cinema next month.
Ronan and Tóibín will be joined on the red carpet at the Savoy on Thursday October 22 by the film’s director, John Crowley, and producer, Finola Dwyer.
Adapted by Nick Hornby, Brooklyn tells the story of Eilis Lacey (Ronan), who leaves 1950s Ireland for New York.
There, she falls in love but later has to choose between her life in the US and her life back home.
Filming took place in Wexford, Dublin and Wicklow, and the cast also includes Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Julie Walters and Jim Broadbent.
Star Ronan and author Tóibín will also attended a special black-tie screening of Brooklyn on Wednesday October 28 in Enniscorthy’s Riverside Park Hotel. The majority of the film was shot in the Wexford town.
Brooklyn opens in Irish cinemas on Friday November 6.
Today, the Global Goals Campaign launches “We the People” – a crowdsourced film where everyone is invited to join the world’s biggest cast and star alongside some of the world’s biggest names. The film will be unveiled on the Google homepage when the Global Goals are adopted on the 25th September. According to Times of Oman, Saoirse has contributed with footage for the campaign, along with many familiar faces from Hollywood.
From India, A R Rahman, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar and Hrithik Roshan have already contributed and crowdsourced footage for We the People.
They will be joined by other artists and activists such as Alice Braga, Ananda Everingham, Anastacia, Ashton Kutcher, Avan Jogia, Becca, Bill and Melinda Gates, Cate Blanchett, Chelsea Islan, Christina Hendricks, Criolo, Daniel Craig, Diamond, Diego Luna, G.E.M., Gilberto Gil, James Chau, Jamie Oliver, Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Lopez, Kate Winslet, UN Messenger of Peace Lang Lang, Liverpool Football Club captain Jordan Henderson and team mates, Lenine, Mia Maestro, Mafikizolo, Mads Mikkelsen, Mena Suvari, UNDP Champion Michelle Yeoh, Meryl Streep, Malala Yousafzai, Nazanin Boniadi, One Direction, Paloma Faith, Paul Wesley, Phoebe Tonkin, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, Richard Branson, Robert Pattinson, Robert Redford, Rodrigo Santoro, Saoirse Ronan, Stephen Hawking, Sun Yang, UN Messenger of Peace Stevie Wonder, Tom Hiddleston, Thanh Bui, UNICEF supporter Wagner Moura, Yemi Alade, and UNDP Goodwill Ambassador for China Zhou Xun among others.
Written and directed by filmmaker Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Four Weddings and Funeral, Love Actually) and Mat Whitecross (Spike Island, Road to Guantanamo) and created by The Rumpus Room, people around the world have the chance to co-star alongside some of the world’s most famous people to help ‘Tell Everyone’ about the Global Goals by adding their voice to the film.
From today, people can upload their footage of reading their lines from the script written by Richard Curtis, outlining the ambition and themes of the goals at wethepeople.globalgoals.org. Entries will be edited together into a final crowd-sourced video using footage submitted by people all over the world.
And yet another premiere event for ‘Brooklyn’ has been announced! Ramping up to its 33rd edition next March, the Miami International Film Festival has set its annual GEMS lineup for October 22 through 25, screening breakouts from Cannes, Sundance and Berlin, and several of this year’s major Oscar contenders. Saoirse’s ‘Brooklyn’, which also stars actor Domhnall Gleeson, is set to open the festival on the 22nd of October.
GEMS will open with John Crowley’s Sundance favorite “Brooklyn,” which Fox Searchlight is rolling out to the fall fests including Toronto. The Nick Hornby-scripted period romance starring Saoirse Ronan is among Searchlight’s awards entrants this year alongside “Youth,” also a GEMS entry. The fest closes with “The 33,” starring Antonio Banderas as one of the Chilean miners trapped underground for 69 days in 2010.
Source: IndieWire
