Another interview with Saoirse and Rose talk about the filming of The Lovely Bones. Screencaps will be up soon.

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01.22.10 : Nick Maslow Interview

I found a video of The Lovely Bones Tokyo Press Conference. You can now view 110+ screnncaps of Saoirse in the gallery.

Congrats to Saoirse, nominated for British Academy Film and Television Awards.

LEADING ACTRESS
CAREY MULLIGAN An Education
SAOIRSE RONAN The Lovely Bones
GABOUREY SIDIBE Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
MERYL STREEP Julie & Julia
AUDREY TAUTOU Coco Before Chanel

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I’ve uploaded photos of Saoirse from The Lovely Bones press conference in Japan to the gallery.

Trailer Park Movies posted a new clip of Travel Around the World with Saoirse Ronan.

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2010 : Travel Around the World with Saoirse Ronan (Part 4)

‘Lovely Bones’ star relies on family as fame comes fast

An afternoon with Saoirse Ronan is enough to spark some serious parental soul searching.

Sure, she looks like a typical teenager, with her multicolored Nike high-tops, skinny black jeans, and shoulder-length blond hair, which she nervously tucks behind her left ear. The 15-year-old star of Peter Jackson’s “The Lovely Bones,’’ which opens Friday, even sounds like a typical teenager from time to time. But then she makes it clear that, despite her youth, she knows a thing or two about responsibility and commitment.

“I don’t find the balance between work and being a teen to be that difficult, because when I’m with my friends I can be really hyper and silly,’’ Ronan says. “Of course I need to be professional when I’m working. I need to make sure to concentrate – I’m a perfectionist, or at least I try to be.’’

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The Irish actress, whose first name is pronounced Sir-sha (“rhymes with inertia,’’ she explains), was nominated for an Oscar for the 2007 film “Atonement,’’ where she appeared in a supporting part opposite Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. Now there’s talk of another nomination for her role as a murdered teen in “The Lovely Bones.’’

“It’s all happened quite quickly,’’ says Ronan, sipping water at a hotel restaurant. “Sometimes it feels like being famous is part of me now and it doesn’t feel out of the ordinary. But sometimes I stop and realize I just did a movie with Peter Jackson and I think, wow, this is actually happening to me.’’

In the film, Ronan plays 14-year-old Susie Salmon who has been killed by her neighbor (Stanley Tucci). Susie narrates the story from somewhere between heaven and earth as she watches over her family and her murderer.

Rose McIver, 21, plays Susie’s younger sister in the film, which spans many years. McIver says she initially worried about the disparity between their on-screen and real-life ages, but fortunately, Ronan helped quell those concerns.

“She was so confident in her ability to pull it off and that was reassuring to me,’’ McIver says by phone from Dallas. “It’s really hard to believe she’s only 15 – she’s just so wise and so mature and so hard-working.’’

The film’s underlying sadness periodically took a toll on Ronan, who says she cannot fully imagine the trauma experienced by abducted children and their families. But she managed to push away the underlying sense of tragedy and loss by focusing on the challenge of her performance.

“I’m able to separate – I just like doing dramatic things – it comes naturally to me,’’ Ronan says. “Maybe because it’s complete escapism from my happy, good life.’’

When she’s not working on a film, Ronan’s life does, in fact, sound fairly idyllic. She lives in a small town in southeastern Ireland with her parents and her beloved border collie, Sassy. It was her father, a television actor in Ireland, who encouraged her to get into the business when she was about 8, she says.

“Dad has always believed in me,’’ she says. “He thought I should get into acting because I’ve always been entertaining. Really, I think I was doing things that almost every other kid does, but Dad thought I was something special.’’

When she is on the road, her parents come along to make sure their daughter is well cared for and to watch her perform.

“They come everywhere with me, and they’re a huge part of keeping me grounded,’’ says Ronan, who seems surprised to learn most 15-year-olds don’t enjoy being trailed by their parents. “And living in the country in Ireland, which is so far away from the Hollywood scene, keeps me from getting caught up. Nobody where I live is interested in that side of things, really.

“I mean, when I told people I was working with Rachel Weisz [who plays her mother in “The Lovely Bones’’], nobody knew who she was. Sometimes I feel like, how can you not know that? But in the end, I think it’s good for me.’’

Something else that keeps Ronan from becoming a self-important Hollywood starlet is watching the bad examples set by some of her young acting peers.

“I won’t name names, but I wouldn’t want to be like those people. The choices they make, the people they hang out with, are just wrong,’’ she says, shaking her head. “You have to use people as examples of what not to be like, and then try and steer away from those kinds of people. The majority of time I actually feel sorry for them, especially because some of them are quite talented and it’s a shame that it’s all down the toilet.’’

Still, as she stands at the cusp of true stardom, Ronan realizes her low-profile life is at risk, and she worries that she might not be completely ready to become a full-blown celebrity.

“I don’t think it’s something you can prepare yourself for,’’ she says. “At the New York premiere, for the first time, I was papped [besieged by paparazzi]. That had never happened to me before. Photographers have followed me in Dublin, which is fine – I mean, it’s only Ireland. But it’s a completely different game in America.’’

These days, life is not even the same in small-town Ireland, Ronan acknowledges. She is wary of people’s motives for trying to befriend her and even suspicious of the young suitors who vie for her attention.

“I have a pretty good instinct,’’ she says. “I’m able to feel people out quite quickly after meeting them, but I always question what they want in the back of my head. Even with boys I think, do you want to go out with Saoirse Ronan the actress or the actual Saoirse?’’

But she doesn’t lose sight of the upside of her success. Having grown up in a home where her parents struggled financially, she is happy to be in a position to help out.

“I know what it’s been like for them, so I appreciate everything I have,’’ she says. “I try to be sensible about what I buy.’’

She does admit to having recently splurged on a $200 leather jacket at a New Jersey factory outlet store. When asked what she liked about it, she shrugs, apparently having reached her quota of questions about her wardrobe.

Maybe there’s a teen in there after all.

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Not every 15-year-old girl gets “Oscar-nominated” placed before her name, but Saoirse Ronan does.

Ronan was nominated for best supporting actress as Briony Tallis, whose lie sets off a series of tragedies in 2007′s “Atonement.” She has a bigger role in “The Lovely Bones,” Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Alice Sebold’s well-loved novel, which opens Friday. She plays Susie Salmon, the girl who, killed at the beginning, observes her family’s life without her from the In-Between. Ronan spoke recently (in an Irish accent; born in New York, she grew up in Ireland) about the film and the book.

Question: It’s an obvious question, but had you read the book?

Answer: No, I hadn’t. I waited till after I made the movie to read the book. I was about 13 when I started to make it, and I had been told that, in particular, the first chapter was a tough read. Everything I needed, really, was in the script. I just wanted to focus on that form of the story. . . . I just didn’t feel like it was the right time for me because of what it was about, and I knew there was more in the book.

Q: When you read it later, did you picture yourself as Susie?

A: Yeah, I kind of did, actually. I’m not really a fast reader, but I read “The Lovely Bones” in three days. I could picture Susie’s bedroom, because I know what it looks like. I was picturing me as Susie. I think I was more connected to it as well, because it almost felt like it was happening to me.

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Q: Were you nervous about playing a character in such a well-known book?

A: Yeah, I was nervous when I was making the film because I was hoping people would like what I was doing and how the film was. It was always something that was in the back of your mind. I wasn’t as aware of it back then, but “Atonement” was such a success as well; I mean the book was. So a lot of people said beforehand, “No way it’s going to be as good as the book.” We kind of proved them wrong.

Q: Did you want to do another movie based on a well-known book?

A: It was kind of coincidental, really. I didn’t mean to pick those type of movies, or even dramatic movies. I would like to do comedy and things like that as well. It just happened that, at the time, the quality scripts I was reading were those. I think it’s always so great to have lots of color, to experiment with those kind of things, and in “Atonement,” especially, we did that a lot.

Q: There is a fair amount of computer-generated imagery in the film, of your character in the In-Between. Is it difficult to act when you can’t see what the audience will later see?

A: It wasn’t too difficult, actually, I think because Pete has experimented with blue screen and CGI before. And this is in no way a CGI movie, either. Well, I don’t think it is. The likes of “Lord of the Rings” and “King Kong,” an awful lot of it was about the action. It was very big, whereas “The Lovely Bones” is a bit more emotional, I suppose. It’s more about the emotions than anything else.

Q: You get the chance to play a lot of emotions.

A: I’m alive, I’m dead, I get to be in a fashion show. She’s not moping around, and she’s constantly trying to contact her father in particular and convict her murderer, and try and come to terms with the fact that she’s dead and watching her sister grow up before her. There’s an awful lot going on while she’s stuck there.

Q: What’s it like to see yourself on-screen?

A: For me it’s been different for every movie that I’ve watched. For some that I didn’t spend as much time on, or maybe didn’t like as much as another one I did, it wouldn’t be that hard to just sit back and accept it as a movie. With “Atonement,” surprisingly – and this wasn’t because I disliked it or anything – I found it very easy to accept that this was Briony Tallis, and this was a film and I could sort of forget that it was something that I worked on. I don’t know why that was. When I saw “The Lovely Bones” – I’ve seen it twice now – although I really was blown away by it, it was beautiful, it was very strange for me to sit back and watch because I had spent so much time on it.

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Young Hollywood released another clip of Travel Around the World with Saoirse Ronan. The clip included some behind the scenes of two photoshoots. As we can see, Saoirse is a busy girl.

Finally, I found a small clip of Saoirse accepting Best Young Actor/Actress on Critics’ Choice Movie Award. Thanks to green for getting the video for me.