A new clip and two new stills from Hanna have just released. Thanks to M for the tip!

A new poster of Hanna has just released. Thanks again to M for the heads up.

Saoirse is currently attending Irish Film and Television Awards where she is nominated for Actress in a Supporting Role. Edit: Congratulations! Saoirse WON the Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in The Way Back. And two new pics added.

Thanks a lot to M for point out! I’ve added the screencaps to the gallery and the trailer to the video archive. Enjoy!

A new still of Hanna has been released!

I’ve added the scans of the editorial from Flaunt magazine February issue and you can read the article below. Saoirse looks amazing in it! Thanks to Holger for the heads up.

The Delicate Attitude of an Irish Fox

Saoirse (sear-shuh) ronan has a knack for saying the right thing. But that’s what these eager, fame-hardened beauties do; that’s Hollywood’s mega-machine—not a lot of room, or, in her defense, time, for candidness. So between flights at Charles de Gaulle, over a miserable connection, the Carlow-born Irish lassie speaks cordially and cleverly self-censored about her travels, her favorite Irish tea, her role in Peter Weir’s new film The Way Back, and all things air-tight for an interview, though alien to your average 17-year-old.

In The Way Back, Ronan (who’s seen the spectrum from brilliant, Oscar-winning page-to-screen adaptation, Atonement, to the cloying mess that was The Lovely Bones) plays Irena, a Russian teenage runaway who fibs her way into tagging along with a group of WWII Russian gulag-escapees. Her arrival inspires goodwill and sentimental stirrings within the trodden collective (Colin Farrell and Ed Harris included), surviving on bugs and the occasional piece of raw meat. Oddly, though, her company creates no stirring in the pants of gents who haven’t seen a female in months or years. “Irena is really a child essentially,” Ronan says, “and all the characters are very decent men, and so when she comes along she introduces this new energy and light.”

That’s funny—considering the papery, blue-eyed sexiness veiled beneath her Soviet rags. Watching, you’re ready for Colin Farrell to pounce on her. But we must consider Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Dead Poets’ Society) who like all masterful directors, made specific choices in his new film. The humanity, or decency in this case, portrayed by The Way Back reveals a redemptive vision for an unforgiving physical and political environment. The group lugs Ronan’s character across the desert while she starves, dries up, and eventually dies, all while wearing some pretty fabulous fox fur slippers.

Ronan lauds Weir’s intelligence and shares an anecdote from their relationship. “I remember one day we were in the forest and I was telling him how I might like to write and direct. I asked him, ‘How did you actually get into it? Did you go and study somewhere?’ He said, ‘I just picked up a camcorder and started shooting.’” Not exactly a crash course, but considering this young lady’s chutzpah, it may be enough to kick start grander ambitions.

More recently, Ronan wrapped a role as a cold-blooded hit girl in Hanna, filmed this past year with Cate Blanchett. Shot in several exotic locals, Ronan’s passport got a workout. She explains that bringing along her parents wherever she goes has made the process easier, especially because they pack some Barry’s Tea (Irish breakfast flavor) for the road. Noting New Zealand as a favorite destination—saying, “[It’s] a slightly more tropical version of Ireland”—and New York as her oft-traveled-to birthplace, Ronan seems pretty at ease with her constant workload and its jetlag inducing pace.

So, Miss Ronan, are there any disadvantages to working with big-name directors or making large-scale films that require such intense immersion? “No,” she says. “I’ve been so, so lucky with my directors.” And of travel, for young people, she says, “[It] really broadens your mind.” Indeed. Her maturity, if only a survival net for a girl on the brink of significant stardom, seems tailored to fit.

The first poster of Hanna is out! I’m so excited right now. And thanks to M for point out.

Here’s a little article about Saoirse and her role in Hanna . Thanks to M for the heads up.

SHE might be known for her fragile and ethereal charm, but it was a whole new departure for Saoirse Ronan in her latest role as an “innocent” young killer.

The Irish actress had to put in some serious physical training — including weights and knife fighting — in a gruelling schedule of four to five hours every day to prepare for her part in the film, ‘Hanna’, co-starring Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett, which marks her reunion with ‘Atonement’ director Joe Wright.

“It was bad-ass — really cool,” said Saoirse, explaining she plays a teenage killer trained as an assassin by her dad from birth.

“But she’s kind of innocent,” she added.

Her own father, actor Paul Ronan, who accompanied his daughter to the launch in Dublin yesterday of the Irish Film and Television Awards, told reporters he was very impressed by the work his daughter had put into the role.

“She was really well prepared,” he said, explaining that she had trained with a Hollywood stunt man and went to LA for further training.

“Maybe it means I can stop following her around at some stage in her life,” he laughed.

Saoirse, meanwhile, said she hoped the new movie would be something new and different from what has previously been out there.

The 16-year-old actress — dressed like any other teenager in a striped breton top, grey cardigan, khaki trousers and red studded Converse boots and wearing her blonde hair loose — has been nominated for an IFTA for her role in ‘The Way Back’, about escapees from a Siberian gulag who walk 4,000 miles overland to freedom.

Saoirse, who begins the gruelling round of publicity work for ‘Hanna’ in the US in March, is not currently shooting a movie.

Instead she is enjoying some much-deserved downtime at home in Carlow, hanging out with her friends and her beloved dog and going bowling with her family as well as making trips to the cinema — “normal stuff” her father said.

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Saoirse was at yesterday’s IFTA announcement. Here’s a pic from the event.