Saoirse Ronan

Irish-American actress and Indie darling known for her work in movies like Atonement, Brooklyn and Ladybird as well as Greta Gerwig's adaptation of much awaited Little Women. What do you think of her?

Likely to go down as one of the greats.

Good actress, particularly touching in Brooklyn, The Lovely Bones, and Mary Queen of Scots. But just via interviews, I get a bit of bitchy vibe from her.

She's young, so hopefully she'll grow out of it.

R2 Where did you read that? I thought she was dating Hozier. Didn't she buy a house close to his in Ireland?

She's technically a very good actress, and technically quite attractive, and yet somehow...I'm unmoved by her. There's something cold and detached there, a weird lack of charisma or warmth despite her aforementioned attributes. She gives off zero sexual energy, either onscreen or off.

If she's closeted, that would explain a lot.

R1 She is good but I feel like she plays the same part over and over with little variation. The headstrong, opiniated girl who is here to break stereotypes kind of roles and while she is very good at them, I would like to see something else.

Also needs to work on her accents. The Irish always shines through no matter what.

R3 I haven't watched the lovely bones. What is the movie like?

R5 That is a very apt description! She has a lot of qualities but somehow the sum is less than whole.

R3 Really good, very depressing though. Based on a book, obviously

R8, she reminds of Ralph Fiennes. In his prime, he was so handsome, obviously a gifted actor, and yet there was a core of coldness and detachment to him that held one at a distance. I never believed him in any of his romantic roles; he was too icy to be credible as someone consumed by passion.

R10 But he was passionate enough to join the mile high club.

She’s... adequate. She should be so much more but there is something a little dead inside her.

'She's technically a very good actress, and technically quite attractive, and yet somehow...I'm unmoved by her. There's something cold and detached there, a weird lack of charisma or warmth despite her aforementioned attributes. She gives off zero sexual energy, either onscreen or off."

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I think she’s good. That “cold” quality works to her advantage in the roles she has been so good in. I don’t really see her as a big sappy romantic lead, but more of an independent, determined young woman, and there are plenty of such roles these days.

I think she’s charismatic.

Irish-American? I thought she was just plain Irish.

I like her - though she often doesn't pick films that I have much interest in seeing (Mary Queen of Scots, On Chesil Beach) although I enjoyed Ladybird.

R16 She was born in NYC, and so she is a U.S. citizen by birth. She was raised in Dublin.

R16 She was born in New York and then lived there for a few years before moving to Dublin.

how is such a vanilla mouse a starlet?????

What kind roles do you guys think she should play?

I would love to see her in something like Gwynnie's Emma.

R19 I don't think she is exactly aiming to be a star. She seems like the kind of actor who always does indies and rarely ever dabbles in big budget movies. Somewhat like Lucas hedges - who she did lady bird with.

Dakota Fanning gets her cast offs.

Dakota fanning still gets work?! The only time I heard of her in the past few years was last year ,when she got cast in Once upon a time in Hollywood.

Will Florence Pugh go neck to neck with her for roles now? Both have similar images - young, above average looking with a lot of potential and mannered acting skills.

Saoirse currently has a higher profile but Florence is gaining momentum and has the black widow movie next year. Both will be in LW too and they will be compared for sure.

R20 I don’t see her as Emma. Emma was a lady, and Ronan strikes me as more of a working class, salt-of-the-Earth type. I could see her in a My Fair Lady type of role, being elevated from street urchin to faux lady, maybe.

The new Kate Winslet. But I agree with R6 that there's not much varietyn in what she does. Worse, she's already started losing out to Florence Pugh who is simply better and more versatile (though seems even more insufferable irl).

I think the coldness vibe comes in part from her icy, light blue fish eyes. Ralph Fiennes has the same piercing gaze, same color eyes. They cut right through you

I like Saoirse, she's definitely one of my favorite young actors and could be great. Very talented, seems sensible and kind of no-nonsense which I like.

R26 yes, Florence is another young actor I'm looking forward to seeing in more stuff, what I've seen from her looks very promising!

I HATE HER HATE HER HER

Since Lovely Bones HATE HER

Fake little cunt, awful films, awful awful actory thing

R27 I don't think it's the colour. I mean look at Cilian Murphy - he has the most piercing blue eyes and he never seems cold to me. Saoirse and Ralph probably don't have very expressive eyes in the first place and colour has nothing to do with it.

[quote]But he was passionate enough to join the mile high club.

Yes, apparently quite the sex pig in real life - remember his epic affair with Francesca Annis? - but none of the heat translates onscreen.

What r29 said. Hate her name, exceedingly average talent and looks. Dull. If vanilla jello pudding had a human form, it would be her.

Florence Pugh? A bit hard-boiled, methinks. You'd never put her in a rom-com. I don't think they go up for the same roles at all. She's a bit bottom heavy as well. One bad career move and she'll be in the parking lot at Popeye's eating her own bucket of chicken and sharing a bottle of Scotch with Kirstie Alley.

She played that Albino type killer in HANNAH. She was really good in that movie.

What do you think happens to the family in Hanna in the end? R35

[quote]I don't think it's the colour. I mean look at Cilian Murphy - he has the most piercing blue eyes and he never seems cold to me

OMG! Are you kidding? Thanks for providing another perfect example. He has the same icy cold stare. He makes a great villain. Should be cast as a serial killer.

R34 Haven't you heard it's all about stars being "relatable" now? 😛

I am sure they would put Florence in a rom com and soon to show how " progressive" they are .

Dead eyed Ralph Fiennes. Same ice blue piercing gaze. Another one who makes a great villain.

Yes, the British family who were taken by Cate to interrogate R38

R37 I am not taking about still pictures! I am talking about his roles. He can easily convey emotion through his eyes despite them being so piercing and ice coloured. He seems like a crazy only when he wants to portray a crazy like in the Batman movie.

MY MOTHER has ice blue eyes and she is a GODDAMNED ANGEL!!!

Saoirse looks and sounds like a ferocious bitch, and she's so much overrated. MEH!

The old Hollywood bosses would have changed her name.

I thought she was on her way to becoming the next Kate Winslet, but she lacks Winslet's warmth and sensuality...

R42 Eons ago when McCain /Obama were running against each other a critic for the Washington Post, Stephen Hunter, was weighing the two candidates against each other in some fluff article. He suggested that McCain had a leg up because Cindy was supposedly this stunning beauty ( I'm not making this up ) and that made hetero guys admire him. To me, she looks like a fucking soul sucking ghoul from a Japanese horror film and her talentless big boned daughter is even worse. But you know what they say about eye of the beholder and all that.

I liked Saoirse Ronan until Ladybird, where she was so incredibly annoying (and the film so terrible) that I wanted to throw things at the screen.

I much prefer Florence Pugh now, especially for her vodka-and-cigarette soaked voice.

Some posters commented above that Saoirse and Florence are insufferable irl. Any instances or interviews you can recall? I haven't seen a lot of them outside their movies and they seemed alright.

Also where do the lesbian rumours come from??

Saoirse Ronan was born in the BRONX.

Random but I loved this look from the SAG awards. In all the interviews I've seen her in she's pretty open and funny. Not some catty bitch like many others.

r4 She's dating Jack Lowden.

R53 I heard she dated Jack then moved on to Hozier a couple years back. Or was it the opposite?

PS - Jack's Hot!!

She's a couple of years and a few bottles of booze away from a shitter thread.

r54 I think it's the opposite. I think she is definitely dating Jack now, the lucky b*tch.

I don't think she's a leading lady type at all. She needs to stick with being a character actress.

I think she looks cold because of the blue eyes and very aquiline features, but I think she's a terrific actress and she seems very natural and down-to-earth in interviews. Even though I didn't particularly like the movie, she was very good playing Mary Queen of Scots and certainly did not have an Irish accent. And the Irish accent she had in "Brooklyn" was actually quite different from her own particular Irish accent. In Ladybird she sounded completely American.

Woah R56 !! Jack's definitely hotter😍

R57 Who even is the leading lady type among the current crop?!

R58 Her accent was completely Irish in MQOS. She didn't sound even a bit Scottish😛. I was actually happy she didn't get the nom last year,she can do so much better and should win for a terrific performance only.

The accent was a little better in Lady Bird but she slipped in and out of it throughout the movie. Even in LW trailer I could hear Irish accent. Now it IS hard to get other accents right but a lot of actors seamlessly do it.

I normally can't stand over-rated pretty white things whom Hollywood shoves down our throats, demanding that we love them. However I have always liked Ronan. I found her very moving in Brooklyn. She made the loneliness and homesickness of immigrants in a foreign land very palpable.

R51 That dress looks like it was made from one of J.Lo's track suits from the 90's.

R7, I found the movie almost unbelievable and very calculated. The set-up was ridiculous and the ending preposterous. Not her fault, obviously, and she was good in the part, but I've never been tempted to see another movie with her in it. Then again, I'm...

Lovely Bones was a blunder, but that wasn't Saorise's fault. She was in a couple of blunders actually. Twice she was in Young Adult adaptations The Host and City of Ember. She may not be currently going for those super hero roles, but for a period of time there was money to be had in YA cinematic franchises.

That being said, she's never been more interesting than she is right now, and she's been interesting her entire career. I actually haven't seen Brooklyn, so I should get on that, but I love her in Atonement and Lady Bird, and am excited to see what she does in Little Women.

Despite being attractive, I agree with those who get no sexual heat from her, but I don't get the ice cold quality. She's quite funny and personable in interviews like the Colbert one posted above. She also successfully hosted SNL, which is an impressive thing to do. She takes her work seriously, but she's not above having fun at all, and I hope she does more comedies.

She’s so lovely, she made Margot Robbie look like a pock-marked, bald, freakish old lady in “Mary, Queen of Scots.”

I like her personality and think she's a decent actress, but I also find her somewhat dull onscreen. I recently watched Ladybird which was a nightmare, and her character was insufferable— it didn't so much make me dislike Saoirse, but, given that it was based on Greta Gerwig's life (despite the fact that she doesn't really acknowledge this), it makes me loathe Gerwig more than anyone. I think Saoirse has been touted as some sort of indie darling, but when you look at her filmography, she's really not—she mostly does studio films.

Indie, at this point, means you're not a part of the MCU.

Any 'indie' film that anyone knows about is a studio film, this has been true since the '90s, 'indie' now more refers to a type of film than financing or distribution...

Lol R67. Where's the lie😌

How come she isn't more popular on DL?! I am surprised.

R66 Greta Gerwig did admit the movie was based on her life - not frame by frame but in essence. Saoirse said the same during promotion. I didn't find her unlikable, she was a teen who wanted to be rich and popular... like every other teen.

She’s boring and I hate her dipshit name.

Maybe she doesn't seem to have any sexual spark in any of her movies because she's always with men in them. She'll be playing a lesbian in a relationship with Kate Winslet in Ammonite, about some Victorian era fossil hunters. We'll see if there's any more spark there.

Also, I know she's supposedly dating Lowden but are there any paparazzi pics of them doing anything couple-y that aren't either staged or of something that friends would do? I think they're both gay.

R71 I have only ever seen DLers call her a lesbian. She is very private and nobody really knows much about her. I have never seen her on pap walks.

What do we know about her background and how she got started?

She doesn't do an American accent well.

I don't think either are very much for pap pics. I follow Jack and he was on a holiday in Iceland and it's obvious she was with him though neither confirm it.

Yeah R75 .There was a backshot of Jack lying on a blanket in a sweater.Saoirse was lying besides him completely covered and you could only see her hair but it was definitely her.

There is a post about Tim-O-tay's chicken legs with almost a 100 replies. Wtf?!

She's getting less and less interesting as an actress - and more and more overshadowed by the supporting players in her movies.

I saw a YT video a few months ago of Ronan on Ellen. Ellen made her play a dating game. At one point, Ronan made a comment that made me think she would have liked some female choices whereas Ellen's team used only male.

R77 She usually turns in a fantastic performance but got overshadowed by Margot Robbie in her last movie. Let's see how Little Women is.

[R77] She usually turns in a fantastic performance but got overshadowed by Margot Robbie in her last movie. Let's see how Little Women is.

She might be overshadowed by Pugh in LW; Ronan has the plumb role - Jo- but based on the early screenings of the movie, the one EW, Hollywood Reporter and the like were talking about was Pugh. She might still get a best actor nod, but it sounds like Pugh will be the one getting the critical buzz.

She's a good actress, but as others have noted, she seems cold & plays the headstrong young woman over & over again. Once she ages out of those roles, it'll be interesting to see where her career goes.

"how is such a vanilla mouse a starlet?????"

It's mousse, darling. It's mousse.

Never underestimate the appeal of blancmange or vanilla junket.

R32, R70 I really don't see how she can be faulted on her name. Her parents gave it to her, and it's a common name in Ireland.

I just saw Brooklyn on DVD today (gray, drizzly dreary one) and I thought she was lovely in this sweet little film .... really nice cast ...

Ronan is terrific in LW, but Pugh steals the movie. Streep, incidentally, is in total tick-tick-tick mode (which kinda works for the character).

I have only seen her in atonement, interviews and a couple of trailers. In atonement I wanted to slap her all day, she's easily the most unpleasant child actress ever. A smug little bitch playing one. I was embarrassed by how ludicrously bad she and Robbie were in the trailer of their movie. In little women's trailer she was as phone-in and perfect cliche as is expected by young Americans. No brainer. She' s bland, dyky, sexless and obviously feminist, so perfect for her generation. In interviews she comes across as pretentious, entitled and cold. Pass.

Lovely Bones wasn't her fault. Fantastic book, shit adaptation. Jackson took all the heart out of the story to add more CGI

Lovely Irish girl with her feet on the ground.

You can be sure she knows if she acts up she'll get a fong in the hole in short order.

The Lovely Bones was an abomination. Peter Jackson needs his DGA card revoked.

The Lovely Bones was an abomination. Peter Jackson needs his DGA card revoked.

I like her. She is a good actress, has an austerely elegant face that is perfect for period dramas, though she is not conventionally pretty but has a fantastic profile, and when I've seen her interviewed she seems very down-to-earth, working class Irish (which her parents are). I like that she has unique, not pretty looks. IMO she has been good in everything I've seen her in.

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