We have updated the gallery with a couple of recent photo sessions of Saoirse from 2015 & 2016. Check it out:
Our gallery has been updated with images from Saoirse’s photoshoot for CARA Magazine last year.
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.”
Our gallery has been updated with a new promotional still from ‘Brooklyn’, which was just released by The Telegaph.
W Magazine has published a great new interview with Saoirse, as well as a very interesting photoshoot, which you can see on our photo gallery. Read the article below.
SAOIRSE RONAN: QUEEN OF HEARTS
Actress Saoirse Ronan, star of the coming-of-age romance Brooklyn, is stealing them left and right.
“I’ve had to spell out my name for confused people my entire life,” said Saoirse (pronounced Sear-sha) Ronan, the star of Brooklyn, in theaters this month. Ronan was calling from her home in Ireland, not far from Enniscorthy, where the film was shot. Brooklyn is based on the Colm Tóibín novel about a young Irish girl who immigrates to America in the 1950s; following a family tragedy, she must choose between her new life in New York and her former one, in Ireland. It’s an old-fashioned story, in the best sense. At a time when strong heroines of the non–comic book variety are increasingly rare, Eilis Lacey, as played by Ronan, is spirited, confused, independent, and unique. “She’s complex, but I would say, somewhat proudly, that Eilis is Irish,” Ronan continued. “And being Irish is part of the reason I never wanted to change my name, even when it was strongly suggested. Saoirse means ‘freedom.’ And my middle name, Una, means ‘unity.’ Freedom and unity—that’s quite a lot to live up to.”
Ronan, who is 21, actually was born in the Bronx. Her parents left their native Ireland in the ’80s in search of work. In New York, Ronan’s mother was employed as a nanny and her father tended bar at a place that was popular with actors from the Irish Repertory Theatre. “They convinced my dad to audition for a play,” Ronan said. “He did it as a lark, but got the part.” When Ronan was 3, her family returned to Ireland; her dad, whose acting career was starting to take off, noticed that she loved being filmed. “I am an only child, and I would disappear into my own world. I staged long, intricate soap operas with my dolls. My father saw that I was drawn to the camera, and I think he felt it took me out of myself.”
Our gallery has been updated with several new images of Saoirse’s photoshoot for The Gentlewoman Autumn/Winter 2015. Please head over to our photo gallery to view them, they are absolutely stunning!
Our gallery has been updated with a promotional photoshoot of Saoirse for her Broadway debut on ‘The Crucible’. She’ll play Abigail Williams, who accuses the women in Salem of witchcraft as a way to conceal her affair with her former employer John Proctor (Ben Whishaw) from, among others, his sickly wife Elizabeth (Sophie Okonedo).
Our gallery has been updated with a new stunning portrait of Saoirse taken at Toronto International Film Festival this week. A huge thanks to my lovely friend Mouza, from gugumbatharaw.org, for sending it our way!
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