Saoirse Ronan is reflecting on one of her hardest productions ever: 2015’s “ Brooklyn .” The period piece was directed by John Crowley . Former child star Ronan credited the feature for being her first production as an “adult,” but that meant it also came with more than a few growing pains.
“I wanted to leave home but I was very homesick,” Ronan told the Los Angeles Times . “I found it really hard, but I didn’t want to go back — it was literally ‘Brooklyn.’ I hadn’t had anyone push me in the way [John] did before.
He treated me like an adult actor and that took me a minute and left me with a bit of a bruise.” Of course, the plot of “Brooklyn” seemed to mirror Ronan’s personal ordeal. Based on Colm Toibin’s novel of the same name, the film centers on Eilis Lacey (Ronan) as she emigrates from Ireland to New York City in the 1950s.
Ronan went on to receive an Oscar nomination for her performance. “Brooklyn” director Crowley, whose upcoming feature “We Live in Time” is already receiving festival buzz , added that Ronan gave a “level of emotional vulnerability [..
.] on set daily” for the role. “It was like watching somebody going out on a tightrope ,” Crowley said.
“And she made it look easy. Of course, it’s not easy. It cost her.
But I think she felt that she was truthfully expressing something of herself in the role and that’s why it yielded so beautifully in her hands.” He added of “The Outrun” actress, “She coul.
