

'The Holiday' Turns 14: See Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet & More Then & Now 'Ammonite' Trailer: Saoirse Ronan Falls Deeply In Love With Kate Winslet In New Romance - Watch 'Titanic' Cast Then & Now: See How Leo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet & More Have Changed 23 Years Later Search Hollywood Life Search Trending Navigation Trending “She’s willing to look as ridiculous as possible in order to get a certain shot or be cold and wet in the rain for as long as it takes to get a good take.Latest Hollywood Celebrity & Entertainment News Primary Menu Menu Close Menu “She’s ready to do everything for the job,” says Saoirse. The actress was impressed to see Kate plunge bravely into the icy sea. It’s actually the perfect hangover cure as well.” “So cold water is something I’m really drawn to. “I love cold water and grew up next to the River Slaney, which is where I learned to swim,” she said. “So much communication at that time couldn’t be in physical gestures – it was in quiet looks and glances.”īizarrely, Saoirse felt most alive in the crashing cold waves of Lyme Regis, Dorset, where she filmed fossil-hunting scenes with a wetsuit beneath her Victorian gown. “That didn’t come naturally to me at all,” she said. Kate, who trained for months to ensure she was a convincing fossil-hunter on screen, also had to rein in her usual energy to portray quiet paleontologist Mary. “Just the clothes that she had to wear and how restrictive they were, I found that very restraining,” she said.
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She had to learn how to play the piano and sew – and then there was the wardrobe that came with an introspective Victorian woman. Ammonite proved a challenge for her in many ways. Saoirse, whose first name – pronounced ‘Ser-sha’ – means “freedom” in Irish, has spent three years living in Greystones, County Wicklow.


I don’t read anything.”īut such dedication has its rewards – she is now worth an estimated £7 million. “When I’m working I can’t really do anything else. For me, that was being on a film set so I worked a lot. “When you’re a teenager you want to belong to something. “I’ve never felt young,” Saoirse confessed. Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in Ammonite Atonement made her a Hollywood star at 13, after she was home schooled.

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Saoirse made her acting debut on Irish TV series The Clinic at nine. The film is the latest in a career of challenges embraced by Saoirse, now 26, who is the youngest actress to have four Oscar nominations – for Atonement, Brooklyn, Lady Bird and last year’s Little Women.īorn in New York’s Bronx to a construction worker and nanny from Ireland, she moved to Dublin with her Catholic family at the age of three and grew up in County Carlow in South East Ireland. Their fossils can be found on our shorelines – buried like the women’s passion. The two were close friends in real life.Īmmonites were sea creatures that evolved over 400 million years ago. The gay women I know say there’s an intimacy you can experience with another woman and that’s what I paralleled.”Īmmonite – due to open here on March 26 – explores the fictional 1820s passion between famed fossil hunter Mary Anning (Kate) and Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse), who had lost a baby. “It was such a great opportunity to be quite creative with the sex scenes to explore the intimacy between two people who hadn’t been touched in a very long time,” she said. It was revealing for Saoirse too after director Francis Lee gave the pair the go-ahead to improvise their lovemaking as they saw fit.
