I’ve uploaded the file of Saoirse’s interview with Miriam O’Callaghan to the video archive.

Interview Link:
01.31.10 : Miriam Meets (Radio Interview)

This Sunday 31 January at 10am on Miriam Meets….. presenter Miriam O Callaghan interviews actors Saoirse and her father Paul Ronan, both in Dublin to celebrate the Irish premiere of Saoirse’s latest film The Lovely Bones.

Attention from the paparazzi is still new and Paul explained a recent incident in Tokyo:

“We were followed in Tokyo. The driver noticed that we were being followed by a white car and two taxis. Very skilfully, as he was used to doing it, he pulled in at a point in the road where the other cars had no choice but to keep going, he then pulled a U turn and went another way. They found us and asked for photos, but because Saoirse was a little bit unsettled by all of this, we said no.”

Saoirse commented:

“It is something that freaks me out. You can’t avoid it, but you can also draw attention. Maybe because I am not the type who will be going out to parties all the time, they will leave me alone.”

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The Oscar nominations are being announced on Tuesday, 2 February and Saoirse is hotly tipped for a nomination in the Best Actress in a leading role:

“It’s something that is hard not to think about, but I try not to. If it doesn’t happen, you are going to be disappointed, there’s no two ways about it.”

On the role of Susie Salmon in The Lovely Bones:

“These are the types of roles I like to play. They are challenging and very satisfying to pull that emotion out and please the director.”

The Lovely Bones is the story of 14 year old Susie Salmon who is raped and murdered by a neighbour. The film tells the story from the point of view of Susie Salmon who speaks to us after her death. Paul answers criticism of allowing Saoirse play a role like this:

“We would never put Saoirse in any danger, or in emotional danger. That script was vetted.”

Miriam asked Saoirse if she had to pinch herself sometimes when she thinks of how her life has changed in the last few years:

“From time to time, I think I have worked with Peter Jackson, I have shaken hands with Steven Spielberg, I have worked with Vanessa Redgrave. I am so lucky that so early in life I have figured out what I love to do and that love has grown over the last few years, and I don’t think that that love will ever weaken. I think it will grow stronger and stronger.”

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OMG!!!! Two new outtakes from Vanity Fair shoot has just surfaced. Saoirse looks stunning.

Here’s an gorgeous new shoot of Saoirse from her visit to Japan that just surfaced. Also, two more pics from the first Japan photoshoot have been added to the gallery.

Video Link:
2010 : Paris Press Junket Interview

Saoirse was spotted outside of the Merrion Hotel in Dublin with her parents.

TV3/Xpose released an interview they did with Saoirse at the Dublin premiere.

A statement from Guardian.co.uk.

We apologise to the staff and pupils of Kilkenny College, a boarding school in south-east Ireland, for mistakenly identifying it as a school that Saoirse Ronan left because teachers and ­students were giving her a hard time (A name to reckon with, 23 January, page 16, Weekend). Contrary to what we stated, Saoirse Ronan was never a student at Kilkenny College. We ­accept that Kilkenny College guards the interests of its pupils and regret any implication to the contrary.

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Here’s another shoot Saoirse did in Japan.

Saoirse attended The Lovely Bones Dublin Premiere last night. I only found three images so far, hope more will surface. EDIT: More images added. We now have 8 HQs and 35 MQs in the gallery!

BAFTA-nominated actress Saoirse Ronan finally arrived in Dublin last night for the premiere of Peter Jackson’s film ‘The Lovely Bones’ and said it was the one she was most looking forward to.

After spending the last few weeks at first nights of the film in Sydney, Wellington, Los Angeles and London, the 15-year-old star found herself outside Dublin’s Savoy theatre having her name shouted by photographers.

“I’ve been all over the world with this film but the Irish premiere was the one I was most looking forward too. It’s really important because this is my home, where my family and friends live. To be here and share a film which I care about so much is really wonderful,” Ronan told the Irish Independent.

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Wearing a vintage black moschino dress despite the winter chill, the actress, already nominated for an Oscar for the 2007 film ‘Atonement’, said she considered as “hype” speculation that she could be up for another Oscar when the list of nominees are announced next month.

“It may happen, it may not, at the moment it’s only hype. I really don’t know what way it’s going to go,” she said.

While on her recent Bafta nomination she said: “I was delighted to be nominated, and very happy for Stanley (her co-star in the film Stanley Tucci). I thought he might well get the nod, but it was a genuine lovely surprise to hear I had got one too.”

Organisers of last night’s premiere had hoped that co-stars Stanley Tucci and Susan Sarandon, along with Rachel Weisz, who plays her mother in the film, would attend the Irish night but it wasn’t possible.

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There’s a video of the premiere, screencaps already been added to the gallery.

Video Link:
01.27.10 : “The Lovely Bones” Dublin Premiere