Today, Saoirse Ronan’s new film Brooklyn has its limited release in theaters. The film has been earning rave reviews and it looks like the film will put the Irish actress on the road to bigger things.
On Oct. 25, Ronan appeared at the Savannah Film Festival, presented by the Savannah College of Art and Design, after a screening of the film. She spoke with The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg about her career and why Brooklyn was important to her. She noted that most of the women characters in the film are actually helpful to her character, Ellis. This provides the film with unusual relationships between women, at least in the film world.
“The women in this - apart from Miss Kelly [Brid Brennan’s character] - help her and they’re not bitchy and they’re not catty And they’re not stabbing each other in the back,” Ronan said. “That’s something that we’ve just kind of accepted in film. That women have to be competitors with each other, not for jobs or anything like that necessarily, but for the attention of men. And we’ve just got used to seeing that on screen and accepted that as the norm.”
In the first part of the discussion, Ronan focused on how she started in Hollywood and her family’s unique journey.
Later, the discussion focused on Brooklyn.
Brooklyn was directed by John Crowley and stars Ronan as an Irish girl who travels to the U.S. during the 1950s. She falls in love with an Italian man, but her family and friends in Ireland think they know who she should end up with. You can read our review right here.