“For both of us, one of the things that we identified with when we both got to know Lady Bird was that she’s the person we wanted to be,” she says. Gerwig hails from Sacramento and while some have said it is a semi-autobiographical piece, Ronan ventures the character of Christine, aka Lady Bird, “rhymes with the truth”. Ronan says they forged the on-screen persona together. “She’d been doing 20th Century Women and had flaming red hair - we read through the script together and that was it.” Ronan was attending Toronto International Film Festival in 2015 for Brooklyn when she and Gerwig met. But when I did read it and saw how much fun you could have with a role like that, I was really excited.” I kind of knew I wanted to do it before I’d even read it. He put us together and sent over the script. He’s a really big supporter of people in his world, he championed Greta and has been great with me. I had signed up to do The Crucible, which Scott Rudin had produced, and he’s great. “I was such a huge fan of Frances Ha, in particular. “I knew of her and I absolutely loved the work that she had done before,” Ronan says. The producer brought her into Gerwig’s orbit as the latter lined up her feature directorial debut. The actress admits she had no idea what Rudin looked like until they were introduced on The Grand Budapest Hotel. In person, Ronan is anything but the Hollywood celebrity, diving straight into the chat, chuckling about “schmancy” press junket hotels and heaping praise on Gerwig and producer Scott Rudin. Lady Bird, and Ronan’s performance in it as a precocious college-bound Sacramento teen, has become a staple of awards-season conversation and the actress just earned an Indie Spirit female lead nomination. The drama erupted onto the scene at Telluride and Toronto (where On Chesil Beach, in which Ronan also stars, premiered) and scored the highest per-site average of 2017 so far when it opened in the US on November 3 via A24. The talk about town is a third will come for the storm she whips up in Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut Lady Bird. At the age of 23, the Irish actress is in high demand and already has two Oscar nominations to her name. Saoirse Ronan emerges onto a West Hollywood hotel balcony looking every inch the film star, a convivial torrent in shades, platinum top and salmon-pink trouser suit.
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