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[Percy]

Wow she got fat.

Cool tag.

 

[Atraveller]

Wow she got fat.

Don't be an ass.

 

[JaseC]

I'd say she's lost the weight she had put on, judging from the photos that surfaced as a result of her involvement with the Yes Equality campaign (there's an immediate difference between those and the photos of her from JDIFF earlier in the year), so good for her.

Anywho, as far as Fantastic Beasts is concerned, it's been said that A Fine Frenzy Alison Sudol is Yates' pick of the bunch for the role of Queenie, in which case Ronan's streak of bad luck is all but assuredly set to continue unabated. Regardless of how the cookie crumbles, at least the role of Tina went to somebody other than Kate Upton.

Edit: Filming on The Seagull started about a week ago.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

At least I like Alison sudol
https://youtu.be/CB7Pc0xPpSQ

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Aw come on. That's just, argh.

 

[JaseC]

And a trailer.

Edit: Fox has released snippets from Me, Earl and the Dying Girl here and there, so I assume Brooklyn will get the same treatment as its release date nears.

Edit edit: International version of the trailer.

Edit edit edit: New still:

 

[JaseC]

Saoirse is reportedly attached to star in a project that will explore the life of Irish female boxer Deirdre Gogarty:

Then, possibly as soon as next summer, production could begin on a movie to shed even more light on Gogarty’s life story. Rob Cawley and Screenworks Productions in Ireland will be working with an American company to produce it.

Actress Saoirse Ronan, who will be starring in the movie “Brooklyn” coming in November, is already reading Gogarty’s book and doing research on her life to prepare for the role. The search remains for the actor who’ll portray Williford.

Edit: Brooklyn will be screened at TIFF.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Exciting news.

 

[JaseC]

Saoirse's signed on for a lead role in a revival of The Crucible, a stage production, that will kick off next April:

Scott Rudin will produce a revival of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” slated for next spring in Broadway. The play is set to run a 20-week limited engagement, which will be directed by Ivo van Hove.

Saoirse Ronan, Ben Whishaw, Sophie Okonedo and Ciarán Hinds will topline the production. Whishaw stars as John Proctor, Okonedo as wife Elizabeth, Ronan as Abigail Williams and Hinds as Deputy-Governor Danforth.

...

“The Crucible” — set during the 1690s Salem witch trials — is van Hove’s second Arthur Miller classic slated for a Broadway revival this season. His first, “A View From the Bridge,” begins previews this fall at the Lyceum.

“The Crucible” will begin previews Feb. 29 ahead of its opening date on April 7, but no theater has been named yet.

This will mark the first time she's done theatre and follows an expression of interest back in 2013.

Also, she'll be a presenter at this year's Hollywood Foreign Press Grants Banquet, which takes place in just under a week:

Jane Fonda, Bryan Cranston, Jon Hamm, Halle Berry and Sharon Stone are among the all-star lineup of presenters that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has corralled for its annual Grants Banquet Dinner, which will be held Aug. 13 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

Other presenters slated to take part include Allison Janney, America Ferrera, Andrew Garfield, Benicio Del Toro, Brie Larson, Dakota Johnson, Elizabeth Banks, Ellen Page, Ice Cube, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Isaacs, Joe Manganiello, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Oscar Isaac, Randall Park, Saoirse Ronan, Sarah Silverman, Sophia Bush, Topher Grace and Ty Burrell.

...

To date, the HFPA reports, it has committed more than $23.9 million in grants, handed out over 1,000 scholarships and restored more than 90 films. Contributions made by the HFPA aid a wide range of projects, including the preservation of films, higher education, training and mentoring and the promotion of cultural exchange through cinema.

Edit: Brooklyn is also going to be at NYFF, it seems.

Edit edit: Photos from the aforementioned HFPA banquet (more here):

Edit edit edit: Brooklyn will also be screening at the Atlantic Film Festival.

Edit^4: Apparently she and her parents started up a production company last year and it turned a healthy profit.

Edit^5: She'll be featured in the upcoming issue of The Gentlewoman:

It hits on the 4th, apparently, but this edit is going to be my last update to the thread unless it's bumped by somebody as we're closing in on a month of me talking to myself.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

.

 

[Royal_Flush]

this edit is going to be my last update to the thread unless it's bumped by somebody as we're closing in on a month of me talking to myself.

You should consider making new posts instead of editing. I don't get a note in my subscription box from a edit.

 

[JaseC]

You should consider making new posts instead of editing. I don't get a note in my subscription box from a edit.

Well, I make new posts if I feel the news warrants a bump, such as earlier in the month when her involvement in The Crucible was announced, but since this thread doesn't see much attention, it's a bit of a delicate situation as I want to avoid it turning into a sea of my own posts more than necessary. Additionally, the primary function of this thread is to keep track of her professional career, which is why I don't bother posting things like candids as her personal life is nobody's business but her own. To drive the point home, threads that devolve into "_____ sure is looking good" are locked quick-smart, however the reason this thread still exists despite the dozens upon dozens of images is that I don't bump the thread with photos unless they're accompanied by interviews. I mean, I'd be lying if I said Saoirse didn't wear red very well, but the addition of things like the HFPA photos are asides to the effect of "Here's what else has happened" rather a suggestive "Damn yo, dem legs".

To be perfectly clear, I don't consider this thread my own little slice of GAF or whatever. People should feel free to contribute to the discussion here, positive or otherwise, without feeling as though they first need a green light.

Edit: This year's London Film Festival has been added to Brooklyn's ever-growing slate of pre-release screening venues.

Edit^2: Add VIFF to that list, too.

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

I haven't seen her in any new film since GBH.

 

[JaseC]

The first sneak peak at Brooklyn has been released. There's also a new still:

...and a new poster:

Plus Saoirse will be interviewed at the BFI LFF on October 11.

Edit: Brooklyn will be screened at the Miami International Film Festival. Might as well just release the thing on VOD services already.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

She looks so grown up in that poster, compared to when she was in Hannah and before.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Sad face. Sad fugee face.

 

[maquiladora]

That poster is terrible...

 

[Joni]

They pasted her facial features on Meryl Streep's head with that poster. It doesn't look anything like the still.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

They pasted her facial features on Meryl Streep's head with that poster. It doesn't look anything like the still.

I'm also pretty sure that there's a color change somewhere. Obvious photoshop is obvious.

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

I just saw a trailer for Brooklyn in cinemas November 6th.

 

[JaseC]

I just saw a trailer for Brooklyn in cinemas November 6th.

Transmission has yet to confirm an AU release date. All upcoming releases listed on its website are just "Coming Soon".

Edit: Saoirse attended the annual ISPCC luncheon yesterday. Nothing in the way of interviews, but there are a bunch of pics.

Also, scans of the Gentlewoman issue mentioned several posts above are floating around, but the feature is nothing more than a few photos and a couple of paragraphs explaining who she is.

Edit edit: Brooklyn will, fittingly, have its debut public screening in Enniscorthy (Ireland) on October 28:

AFTER MUCH negotiation over the past couple of months it has been confirmed that Enniscorthy will host the first public screening of the major motion picture Brooklyn, part of which was filmed in the town last year.

Despite the lack of a cinema in the town, Wexford County Council have managed to pull off somewhat of a coup by agreeing a deal with distributors Lionsgate UK to stage the public premiere in The Riverside Park Hotel on October 28 after its closed national premiere in Dublin.

There was news of a push to have the film premiere in Ennicorthy earlier in the year and it seems that, despite the initial doubt, just about everything worked out in the end (Dublin will play host to the actual premiere, as stated above, on October 22).

 

[JaseC]

NOW Magazine has posted a new interview online as part of its TIFF 2015 coverage, which is also the feature of the new issue that hit today.

Also, The Crucible, the upcoming Broadway production that she's in, has an end date:

Rehearsals will begin in January 2016 with a first preview currently scheduled for Feb. 29 at the Kerr. It will open April 7 and continue through July 17. Tickets go on sale Sept. 12 at 10 AM ET and will be available by calling Ticketmaster at (212) 307-4100 or by visiting Ticketmaster.com.

And finally, Brooklyn's festival run has been expanded for the umpteenth time to include two CIFFs: the Calgary International Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival.

 

[capitalCORN]

NOW Magazine has posted a new interview online as part of its TIFF 2015 coverage, which is also the feature of the new issue that hit yesterday.

Also, The Crucible, the upcoming Broadway production that she's in, has an end date:



And finally, Brooklyn's festival run has been expanded for the umpteenth time to include two CIFFs: the Calgary International Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival.

Save you a magazine JaseC? It has her on the cover. Did a double take, as I walked past it this morning in the stand.

 

[JaseC]

Save you a magazine JaseC? It has her on the cover. Did a double take, as I walked past it this morning in the stand.

Thanks for the offer, but since the interview has been posted online, there's no need.

Edit: The Crucible has a website.

 

[BananaPancake]

She is a really good actress, very good at accents as well. I have enjoyed a lot of her movies. She's lucky to have had a lot of great roles in a wide variety of movies and doesn't seem to have been pigeon holed in crappy movies like some women her age are.

 

[JaseC]

TIFF stuff:

More here.

More here.

More here.

More here.

More here.

More here.

More here.

More here.

There are only a few interviews at this stage, but I'm sure more will surface over the coming days, in which case I'll edit them into this post.

And finally, apparently she received a standing ovation. Go get that Oscar, Saoirse.

Edit: Cineplex interview and Andpop kindasorta-interview. Also, bits and pieces of the post-screening Q&A:

- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4
- Part 5

Edit edit: Variety interview and Vanity Fair interview.

Edit edit edit: Behind the Velvet Rope interview and BTVRtv interview.

Edit^4: ET Online interview that I forgot to move into this post and an "edited version" of her interview with Awards Circuit.

Edit^5: Smart Entertainment interview.

Edit^6: Nuke the Fridge interview.

Edit^7: DP/30 interview.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

TIFF: Sundance Sensation 'Brooklyn' Surges Back Into Awards Discussion

 

[JaseC]

The website for The Crucible has been slightly updated and now has an animated background that blends multiple promo images, but it seems to only play once. SRF has a gallery.

Edit: Brooklyn's US release date has been moved forward a couple of days, to November 4. Still no solid date for Australia. :sadcloud: Also, here's something random: 32 celebrities describe Donald Trump's hair colour.

Edit edit: Saoirse's thrown her support behind the 100minds fundraising program.

 

[JaseC]

I noticed last night that she's deleted her Twitter account for some reason. The internet being the internet, my first thought was that maybe harassment was to blame, so I searched for her name and went back more than a week, but nothing stood out -- the vast majority of tweets are effusive praise for her performance in Brooklyn. She generally didn't tweet often (once every few months or so) and said as much herself to ET Online, so she probably just decided that there was no point in keeping the account active if she wasn't going to regularly use it; although she was particularly active this year due to issues such as Ireland's referendum on same-sex marriage and in fact tweeted her support for the We the People campaign just ~a couple of weeks ago.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

That kinda sucks, but she never did tweet much.
Maybe if she gets an Oscar.

 

[UberTag]

And finally, apparently she received a standing ovation. Go get that Oscar, Saoirse.

I was part of that standing ovation. Those are always fun to be a part of.

Oscar, on the other hand, may be a little hard to come by. Saoirse was part of a 3-way logjam for the final two nomination slots for Best Actress heading into the start of festival season with Brie Larson (Room) and Lily Tomlin (Grandma) and the momentum is clearly with Room and Larson right now (even though I personally feel Saoirse's performance was easily better; Larson was constantly being upstaged by young Jacob Tremblay.

Of course, this is simply the nomination fight I'm talking about. The actual Best Actress trophy is more than likely going to go to one of the three established front-runners... Carey Mulligan (Suffragette), Cate Blanchett (Carol) or Jennifer Lawrence (Joy). The last of which could still presumably bomb and be awful but given David O. Russell's track record with Jennifer Lawrence (2 for 2 in Oscar noms and 1 Best Actress win) this seems rather unlikely.

 

[Dmax3901]

That glorious beard on Mr Gleeson!

 

[JaseC]

I was part of that standing ovation. Those are always fun to be a part of.

Oscar, on the other hand, may be a little hard to come by. Saoirse was part of a 3-way logjam for the final two nomination slots for Best Actress heading into the start of festival season with Brie Larson (Room) and Lily Tomlin (Grandma) and the momentum is clearly with Room and Larson right now (even though I personally feel Saoirse's performance was easily better; Larson was constantly being upstaged by young Jacob Tremblay.

Of course, this is simply the nomination fight I'm talking about. The actual Best Actress trophy is more than likely going to go to one of the three established front-runners... Carey Mulligan (Suffragette), Cate Blanchett (Carol) or Jennifer Lawrence (Joy). The last of which could still presumably bomb and be awful but given David O. Russell's track record with Jennifer Lawrence (2 for 2 in Oscar noms and 1 Best Actress win) this seems rather unlikely.

I'm feeling rather confident that she'll secure a nomination, but, yeah, I'm not going to get my hopes up and begin assuming she'll actually win, especially considering how much the Academy loves Lawrence. (To be fair, I've not yet seen Joy; who knows, maybe once I've done so I'll feel that she's actually deserving of an Oscar this time around.)

Edit: 30 signature celebrity dance moves (I cheated a bit and slightly edited the title).

Edit edit: Brooklyn will be at the Savannah Film Festival and the New Orleans Film Festival.

 

[JaseC]

New international/Aussie trailer for Brooklyn. Still no release date, which has me thinking it'll slip into 2016. You're not very good at this whole film distribution thing, Transmission. Also:

Kate Bowe PR
A wee tweet pic on behalf of the lovely #SaoirseRonan @Blue_Box_CLC #LoveTheBear Text BEAR to 50300 to donate €2

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

They have some awesome posters up for Brooklyn in my cinema now.

 

[Messofanego]

Wondering if JaseC will travel to here in UK for this as part of LFF

LFF Screen Talk: Saoirse Ronan (11th October 2015)

The versatile, Oscar-nominated star of Atonement, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Brooklyn joins us to discuss her acting career. Ronan is currently filming several new projects and takes time to join us to discuss her acting career in this Screen Talk.

 

[JaseC]

Wondering if JaseC will travel to here in UK for this as part of LFF

LFF Screen Talk: Saoirse Ronan (11th October 2015)

The versatile, Oscar-nominated star of Atonement, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Brooklyn joins us to discuss her acting career. Ronan is currently filming several new projects and takes time to join us to discuss her acting career in this Screen Talk.

Haha, sadly I couldn't justify travelling to a place I've little interest in holidaying in just to attend a film festival. I've mentioned once or twice before that I'd like to attend TIFF at some point, though and that's still something I hope comes to fruition one day.

Edit: The Irish Sun has posted some interview snippets.

Edit edit: Brooklyn will be screening at the British Film Festival.

 

[JaseC]

David Poland has uploaded his TIFF interview. Usually I'd just this into the TIFF post above, but Poland's ones are always particularly great.

Edit: Saoirse's thrown her support behind Irish film A Christmas Star.

Edit edit: There'll be a Q&A at the upcoming Savannah Film Festival.

Edit edit edit: Brooklyn will be screening at the Austin Film Festival.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

I was wondering when the next Poland interview would be.

 

[JaseC]

Jason Isaacs says Saoirse won a Cabeflax award. Honestly, Stockholm, PA, was, frankly, very disappointing, even considering its tiny budget; it should have been her Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Edit: Brooklyn will be at the Philadelphia Film Festival.

Edit edit: Bunch of new stuff. Firstly, some photos from a few recent magazine photoshoots:

More here.

Secondly, Saoirse's already pencilled in to win an award for Brooklyn:

Top contenders for the best actress, best supporting actor and best supporting actress Oscars will be honored at the 19th Hollywood Film Awards, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Brooklyn's Saoirse Ronan will receive the New Hollywood Award, Sicario's Benicio Del Toro the Hollywood Supporting Actor Award and The Danish Girl's Alicia Vikander the Hollywood Breakout Actress Award.

Additionally, Vikander's director Tom Hooper will pick up the Hollywood Director Award and the principal cast of Straight Outta Compton — O'Shea Jackson, Jr., Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell — the Hollywood Breakout Ensemble Award at the ceremony, which will take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Nov. 1.

And finally, said film is screening at another few festivals (St. Loius International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Virginia Film Festival and the Hamptons International Film Festival), and there are roughly a dozen new stills:

More here.

 

[JaseC]

NYFF stuff. I usually ignore candids, but to kick things off, a small dose of "Aw":

Saoirse Ronan tears up during loving #NYFF audience reaction to her amazing performance in the well-crafted, nostalgic, and thoughtful #Brooklyn

Other photos:

More here.

More here.

More here.

Not much in the way of interviews yet, just a couple of minutes of the Q&A and a brief article based on a few of the questions.

Edit: Behind the Velvet Rope interview. Also, here's the source of those snippets The Irish Sun published ~a couple of weeks ago (not a scan).

Edit edit: ArcLight interview.

Edit edit edit: Awards Daily interview.

Edit^4: Behind the Velvet Rope interview #2.

Edit^5: Examiner interview.

 

[JaseC]

BFI LFF stuff:

More here.

More here.

More here.

More here.

More here.

As far as interviews go, Press Association has uploaded two short videos (I knew the Irish Independent must have pinched them from somewhere ), Hypable has published a written one and Hey U Guys recorded the press conference, which runs for a good half hour. I don't know if the Screentalk (first photo set above) was recorded, but hopefully it was.

Edit: Hey U Guys interview.

Edit edit: Hypable interview #2.

Edit edit edit: BFI has uploaded the aforementioned Screentalk and Zoomin has posted a short video.

Edit^4: Premiere Scene interview.

Edit^5: Soho Picture Book interview.

Edit^6: Into Film Clubs interview.

Edit^7: Another AP interview snippet.

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In other news, there's a new UK trailer for Brooklyn and Saoirse will be a guest on this week's episode of TFI Friday.

Edit: New Childline promo video.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Holy crappy, some pictures make her look very grown up.

Thanks for the updates, Jase.

 

[JaseC]

I don't know if the Screentalk (first photo set above) was recorded, but hopefully it was.

It was! Runs for just under an hour.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

It was! Runs for just under an hour.

 

[Hex]

Wow she got fat.

Sometimes some of you stains on this board straight out disgust me.

 

[ugh_the_boot]

She was pretty cool on The Graham Norton Show as well.

 

[Shade]

She is looking good as always. Thanks for the updates JaseC! Hopefully she is in more movies this (and next) year.

 

[Brakke]

Does JaseC have fully a third of the posts in this thread wow good hustle.

 

[Dominator]

Jase's commitment to this thread is astounding.