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IFTN has recently reported that Filmbase will be conducting a public interview with Saoirse in honor of their 25th anniversary this week. Saoirse’s interview will be taking place on Saturday, June 25th.
Filmbase are celebrating their 25th anniversary this week with festivities taking place on Friday June 24th and Saturday June 25th. Events include a public interview with Oscar nominated actress Saoirse Ronan which will take place on June 25th. Saoirse is one of Ireland’s most successful actresses having played starring roles in Joe Wright’s Hanna, Atonement and Peter Weir’s The Way Back.
Saoirse was recently featured in the May 2011 of W Magazine. A scan from the issue, as well as gorgeous outtakes from the photoshoot have been added to the gallery! You can also have a read at the featured article below.
For two months before shooting began on this month’s action thriller Hanna, 17-year-old Saoirse Ronan endured a daily four-hour regimen of martial arts and weight lifting to play a girl trained by her father—a former Central Intelligence Agency operative (Eric Bana)—to assassinate a top CIA official (Cate Blanchett). It’s not the first time Ronan has been called upon to portray a kid with very adult challenges. In Atonement, for which she earned an Academy Award nomination, she played 13-year-old Briony Tallis, whose rape allegation dooms the love affair between Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. In Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, she was 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who narrates her own murder investigation from beyond the grave. Yet to Ronan’s surprise, she found some childlike elements in the character of Hanna. “At first I thought, This is going to be a badass kid,” says the Irish actress. “But she turned into something else, which was actually quite innocent.” Although Hanna is very much an action movie (set to a thumping Chemical Brothers score), it’s also a coming-of-age story, to which Ronan can relate. “I’m still figuring out who I am,” she admits.
Earlier this month, Daily Mail published an article of an interview they did with Saoirse. You can have a read at the article below, and find gorgeous photoshoot outtakes that accompanied the article in the gallery.
Saoirse Ronan is looking forward to her first ever music festival. She’s already booked her ticket for Oxegen in County Kildare and is very excited about a line-up that features some of her favourite bands (Arctic Monkeys, Black Eyed Peas) and the chance to sleep in a caravan with three of her best friends. ‘That will be so cool,’ she giggles. ‘I wouldn’t even mind a tent in the mud, I so want to go!’
Like most 17-year-olds she’s music-mad, and is all set for an adventure that has become a rite of passage for teenagers across Europe. That is, if work doesn’t get in the way.
Because while her mates will be fretting about exam results and part-time jobs this summer, Saoirse (pronounced Seer-sha) will be on the other side of the world from her native Ireland making a blockbuster movie. With a CV that’s the envy of many twice her age (including an Academy Award nomination for Atonement), she’s on course to make the tricky transition from child success to genuine grown-up star, like, say, Jodie Foster, the Oscar-winning actress she is often compared to.
Last month, Saoirse and director Joe Wright sat down with the LA Times for an interview – you can have a read at the article below. A handful of outtakes from a photoshoot that they did during the interview have been added to the gallery.
Shortly after she received an Oscar nomination at the tender age of 13, “Atonement” star Saoirse Ronan needed a new movie. Despite a drama background, she was intrigued by the title character in “Hanna,” an ethereally beautiful teen who also happens to be a ruthless assassin. But the project was stuck in development at Focus Features; filmmakers like Danny Boyle had come and gone.
Ronan had a simple solution: “They said they didn’t have a director,” the Irish actress (first name SER-sha) recalls. “So I said, ‘Why don’t you just ask Joe Wright to do it?’”
Wright was a strange choice, to say the least. The British filmmaker was best known for his cinematic adaptations of “Atonement,” Ian McEwan’s revered novel, and the Jane Austen classic “Pride and Prejudice.” He had won highbrow prizes. He didn’t watch many action movies, let alone direct them. A killing machine played by a teenage girl wasn’t much on his mind.
Unless, that is, it was a certain teenage girl. “If Saoirse hadn’t been involved I wouldn’t have given it much attention,” Wright says. “But because she was, I thought I should take it seriously.”
The result of that unlikely chain of events — “Saoirse hired me,” Wright says, only half-joking — is this coming weekend’s “Hanna.” The release is a Jason Bourne-like fugitive story, if Jason Bourne were an adolescent girl and “Bourne” director Paul Greengrass had spent years adapting period novels.
The New York Times released an article yesterday about Saoirse and her Lovely Bones co-star, Rose McIver. There was an adorbale new picture to go with it, which you can see in the gallery. Click the link to read the full article.
She and Ms. McIver developed a fast friendship on the set. As they walked into the observatory, they held hands, leaned into each other and talked. Following them were a publicist for the film, Ms. McIver’s agent, Ms. Ronan’s parents and the girls’ hairdresser (hey, it never hurts to be prepared).
Like a schoolgirl on a field trip, Ms. Ronan stopped at the first exhibit and dutifully read the explanatory plaque. Then, with her cheek resting on her fist, she stared at the pit and the pendulum whose swing would knock down a peg every seven minutes.
