She said it was very “intense.”
Saoirse Ronan has opened up about her early years of acting, saying that she used to work so hard that she sometimes wouldn’t feel like herself.
Speaking to the Independent, the actress explained that it was quite a whirlwind: “Everything was kind of changing for me and it felt like I was just sort of floating above my body.
“There was so much work, more than I’d ever done, and finishing it, and having the work turn out to be good, I was kind of like, ‘Okay, that’s the baptism of fire.’”
However, in the interview she noted that Irish people don’t let themselves become big-headed. “I don’t think anyone’s let lose the run of themselves at home,” she said.
“If I ever hear anybody Irish who, as a producer said once, gives themselves a great welcome, I’m like, ‘Ah lads!’ It’s sort of like the thing with women in film where you’re like, ‘We can’t mess up because we’re the minority, so whenever we produce anything or we’re exported somewhere else, we need to do it better.’”
“We have some of the best actors in the world, like Cillian Murphy and Daniel Day-Lewis and Charlie Murphy, Sarah Greene, all these brilliant people, and we’re very supportive of each other because we come from a small place and we know how big a thing it is to, like, go out there.”
Saoirse is currently promoting Little Women which she stars in alongside Emma Watson and Meryl Streep.
