Defender of independent cinema and with a long career behind her despite being only 30 years old, Saoirse Ronan The need to go to the cinema in a country like the United States is currently being discussed. A concern that focuses on arms control and that, historically, has already been the thematic center of tragedy in several rooms of the new continent. Now, at the gates of a new application by the Academy thanks to her latest film, the Irish actress wanted to express her concern to the media, emphasizing that due to the danger implicit in the possession of weapons, even the stands cannot be a safe place in America.
Nominated four times At the Oscars, Ronan recently explained in an interview that for her, American movie theaters are “horrible” because of the commerce and the ease with which anyone in the country can get a gun. In the past, shootings have occurred in movie theaters during screenings such as The Dark Knight: The Legend Rises (2012) or and suddenly you (2015), in addition to the public threat of a mass shooting during the premiere of joker (2019). Fortunately, this latest threat came to nothing. The performer was actually born in the United States and moved to Ireland when she was three. It wasn’t until she was 12 that she landed her first role in Atonement, beyond passion and a very early nomination by the Academy. Currently Saoirse Ronan is promoting blitzwhich could be a new consideration in the female actress category of the red carpet. And of course, with the presidential elections approaching, the actress was asked about the political fight between Kamala Harris and Donald Trumptouching on the subject of guns and the apparent sense of unease Ronan feels in all 32 states across the country.
Saoirse Ronan: ‘I don’t feel safe’
In blitzSaoirse Ronan plays a mother desperately searching for her son in a war drama set during World War II. The filmmaker’s new film Steve McQueen who has already shone at the 2014 Oscars with 12 years of slavery.
Produced by Apple TV+, the film will arrive in the platform’s catalog next November 22while in the United States, the story is available in cinemas today. A space that, based on her words, we don’t think the actress will enter (that doesn’t seem like a good promotion, though).
“I don’t feel safe going to the movies because I don’t know if someone is going to pull out a gun. “It’s horrible,” Ronan began on the podcast. Awards circuit of Variety. The star then pointed out that she had people close to her who no longer felt safe and could no longer go to New York because they were randomly attacked on the street by a simple viral content or TikTok challenge. He then fully enters into the theme of the North American elections: “The United States plays a very important role in the functioning of the world. If you fall, a vast majority of us will fall. Don’t stay undecided. “The undecided will influence these elections one way or another. »
His love of independent cinema
At the end of the podcast, Saoirse Ronan also shared her love for independent cinema, but she doesn’t want it to be ignored either. catalog as an artist who only responds to this type of production:
“I also take into account that I’ve done a lot of independent films, which I love, but I don’t want to be pigeonholed as just an ‘independent girl’. I also want to do big things. The older I get and the richer my personal life becomes, the more I have to think about saying yes to a job (…) I think that the older I get, the more experience I have, the more I want to be pushed, the more I want to be in demand as an actress. “It’s always been there, but I feel like the more skills you have, the more you want to be tested.”
Apart from blitzRonan recently released the acclaimed British film Overcoming. In the future, we will see her starring in the adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia that Greta Gerwig is preparing for Netflix. blitz This could be the fifth nomination for the muse of independent cinema.
