Irish actor Saoirse Ronan returns to Fresh Air to talk with contributor Ann Marie Baldonado about her two new films (The Outrun and Blitz) as well as her experience as a child actor and her collaboration with Lady Bird and Little Women director Greta Gerwig. Also, Carolina Miranda reviews the Netflix film Pedro Páramo. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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Our guest is four time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan.
The star of Little Women, Late Lady Bird and Atonement stars in two very different new films, the Outrun and Blitz.
She spoke with fresh airs and Marie Boldonato.
Saoirse Ronan's performance as a precocious young girl in the war drama Atonement got her her first Oscar nomination.
She was only 13 at the time and three other nominations were to follow, one for the 2015 film Brooklyn, about a young Irish woman in the 1950s, torn between her new life in the US and her homeland.
She got two nominations for the film she made with Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird in 2017 and Little Women in 2019.
Her other movies include the Grand Budapest Hotel, the Lovely Bones and Mary Queen of Scots.
This fall, she has two films in theaters.
In the movie Blitz by the director Steve McQueen, Ronan plays a mother living in London with her young son and elderly father, all trying to survive the German bombing campaigns during World War II.
And in the film the Outrun, she plays a young woman whose life is derailed because of her addiction to alcohol.