Ronan sobbed at Lady Bird

Saoirse Ronan “sobbed hysterically” when she watched ‘Lady Bird’ for the first time. The 23-year-old actress was “so nervous” about seeing her leading role in the coming-ofage drama and she thinks director Greta Gerwig has made a “beautiful” movie. She said: “I watched the film for the first time with my best friend in October. We had a couple of glasses of beverages before we went in because I was so nervous, but we had our arms wrapped around each other. “Even though I knew what was going to happen in the film, I was laughing one moment and sobbing hysterically the next. It’s about the beautiful struggle of being a teenager, growing and changing and getting to know yourself, and having the realization that relationships change.” And Saoirse admitted she identifies a lot with her titular character in the film. Speaking to the director in conversation for the Sunday Times, she said: “I identify with a lot in ‘Lady Bird’. The great thing about how you’ve written the character is that she doesn’t know how great or special she is. And there’s a huge sense of the importance of belonging, belonging to a place, a time in your life.” The award-winning actress admitted it was unusual for her to enjoy the finished film so much because she normally works on a project to hang out with “brilliant” people. She said: “The crew are the people I want to hang out with when I’m working, and that’s why, usually, I actually don’t get anything out of watching the final cut of a film. Most of the time, as cheesy as it sounds, I’m not doing a movie for that, I’m doing it because I get to work with these brilliant people. I think there’s definitely an Irish thing in my head that tells me not to take up all the oxygen in the room, too.”