Irish actor Saoirse Ronan returns to Fresh Air to talk with contributor Ann Marie Baldonado about her two new films (The Outrun and Blitz) as well as her experience as a child actor and her collaboration with Lady Bird and Little Women director Greta Gerwig. Also, Carolina Miranda reviews the Netflix film Pedro Páramo.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
What films is Saoirse Ronan currently promoting?
This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross. Our guest is four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan, the star of Little Women, Lady Bird, and Atonement, stars in two very different new films, The Outrun and Blitz. She spoke with Fresh Air's Anne-Marie Boldenaro.
Saoirse Ronan's performance as a precocious young girl in the war drama Atonement got her her first Oscar nomination. She was only 13 at the time, and three other nominations were to follow. One for the 2015 film Brooklyn, about a young Irish woman in the 1950s, torn between her new life in the U.S. and her homeland.
She got two nominations for the film she made with Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird in 2017 and Little Women in 2019. Her other movies include The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Lovely Bones, and Mary, Queen of Scots. This fall, she has two films in theaters.
In the movie Blitz by the director Steve McQueen, Ronan plays a mother living in London with her young son and elderly father, all trying to survive the German bombing campaigns, Thank you.
She tries different things to get sober, going to rehab, moving back to Orkney, Scotland, to help her bipolar dad tend to his goat farm, and then to an even more remote island off the coast of Scotland, where she spends most of her time alone working on nature conservation. Here's a scene from the outrun. Rona is waking up after a bad night of drinking.
She doesn't even remember what she's done, but both she and her boyfriend, played by Papa Esiadu, are both hurt and bandaged up. He's had enough and wants to break up. What did I do last night?
You don't remember.
Dana, I'm so sorry. Whatever I did... I'm not drinking anymore. I'm sorry. I'm so tired of hearing you say that.
I can't hear you say that again.
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