Saoirse Ronan knows LittleWomen is the performance of her career
The 25-year-old, three-time Oscar nominee has just completed an introduction to cooking course she took with a friend in Edinburgh, shortly after wrapping production on ““Have you ever chopped garlic and it just gets stuck in your hands? If you run your fingernails down the safe edge of a steel knife under hot water, it comes right out,” Ronan tells Variety with an easy smile.It’s not a huge revelation, she admits, but the actor says she needs to keep herself occupied between jobs.
“Before we even started shooting [‘Lady Bird’], she was scared,” says Gerwig. “I drove her around everywhere, because she had to go to doctors’ appointments and different things to get cleared to film. She was really worried. I always knew she would be great, but she was really concerned she wouldn’t be able to find the character. With Jo, there was an extraordinary softness to her. She just knew she could do it.
At the end of the new film, Gerwig invents a twist that Ronan executes to a T — a tribute to Alcott’s trailblazing spirit in which she clashes with a stuffy and chauvinistic editor over the publication of her book. As Jo, Ronan demands concessions and refuses to back down. It’s an emotional moment of pride that diverges from the finish of Alcott’s novel to focus not on love and marriage but on a woman who demands power in both art and commerce.
The idea of artists in general, and women in particular, retaining rights is not as evolved as one might think. Pascal notes the ordeal of singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, who is embroiled in a messy copyright battle with emerging mogul Scooter Braun, who purchased the back catalog that made her a star in her late teens and early 20s. Swift has shared her struggle to reclaim the songs she wrote, taking her appeals as high as The Carlyle Group, which financed Braun’s acquisition of her music.
“I felt the same way when I went to talk to Amy Pascal and Sony about how I had to make this film,” Gerwig says. “It was before I directed ‘Lady Bird.’ I was not at the top of anyone’s list, but I was so sure that I had to do it. I am not taken to showing up in offices and telling people they have to hire me.
“I’ve never encountered anyone so preternaturally talented in my life. It was very weird,” says Wright of the day he sat at his desk watching Ronan’s audition. “Her performance was transformative even on that little tape.” “I think I could see even then, on some subconscious level, that there was more longevity in films that had more grown-ups in them,” she says. “I was an only child who was around a lot of adults my whole life, and that becomes your safety.”
“We had the best boys in the world on that job, but when they would be in the room with us, we would get quiet and none of us would really speak,” says Ronan. “It wasn’t them, but that’s sort of the role you take on automatically. We need to relearn that and shake that off a bit.” As Jo’s petulant but purposeful sister Amy, the women have the most electric dynamic in Gerwig’s script, two girls who boil over with rage as quickly as they embrace one another with urgency. Pugh says she was shocked by how normal Ronan was, knitting in between takes or preparing a traditional English Sunday roast for her costars when Chinese takeout would not deliver to the remote location shoot in Concord.
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