-Not only Margot Robbie, but in "Mary Queen of Scots"
you also have -- I guess there's four actresses
who were your ladies in waiting.
-Yeah. Four Marys.
-Yeah. The four other Marys.
Did you get to be, unlike Margot obviously,
pretty much all -- so many of your scenes were with them.
-Yeah.
-Did you get to be close with them?
-Yeah, we're so close.
We're really, really good friends.
We basically -- The more time we spent with each other,
the more we realized, like,
we're basically the renaissance Spice Girls.
-Oh, wow. [ Laughter ]
-'Cause there's five of us and I was Ginger Spice, obviously.
She's the best one.
And we had a Sporty Spice and a Baby Spice and all of that.
And we used to like, full out -- full on, perform "Wannabe"
on set in our corsets and with our massive head pieces.
♪ If you wanna be my lover ♪
-This is your range as an actor. -Yeah.
-Which is one part of you as an actor as like to Margot,
"I don't want to see you until we shoot the scene."
-Yeah, yeah.
-And then the other part of you is like,
"Hey, let's be Spice Girls." -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
Yeah, duality. That's Saoirse. -Yes.
You have to speak French in the film.
-Yeah. -You learned it.
I'm very impressed because I would have thought,
based on seeing it, that you knew French.
-Yeah. I heard your mother was a -- was a French teacher.
-Yeah, she was a middle school French teacher.
-So how's your -- -It's not good.
-It's not good. -And she was my teacher.
So, you know, it reflects badly on her.
-Oh, well, that's why then. -Yeah.
-That's why you aren't good. -Yeah.
I do think it's why I'm not good
because she was pretty --
she was pretty forgiving with the old grades.
-Right. Okay. Okay.
Did she draw little smiley faces next to your grades?
Or like -- or like, "pick you up at 3:00 p.m., darling"?
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Like little hearts.
-It was bad 'cause the other kids would see it.
You know? It would come back.
And they'd see that all my answers were wrong.
But there were just smiley faces.
-Terrible. Terrible.
-Oh, yeah. [ Laughter ]
-It was -- it was a bad scene. I think --
-So I could probably out-French you, then.
-Yeah. How do --
-Bonjour. -Oh, very good.
[ Laughter ]
[ Conversing in French ]
[ Laughter ]
[ Conversing in French ]
-But you -- you got to go --
[ Conversing in French ]
-That's Italian. [ Laughter ]
-French is this. -French is that.
[ Laughter ]
French is -- -French is --
-It's a reverse Italian. [ Laughter ]
-You -- This is very exciting.
Greta Gerwig who, obviously, directed "Lady Bird."
You just finished working with her again on "Little Women."
That is a thrill, so exciting
that you guys teamed up for that.
Was that a book you were familiar with, "Little Women"?
-Yes. I'm very familiar with it.
I read it all the time when I was a kid.
And there's been, you know, so many versions of it.
So I grew up watching all of them --
the Winona version, the Liz Taylor version.
And yeah. We wrapped yesterday.
-Oh, man. -So it's kind of mental.
But we had an amazing time.
And she's -- she's just so smart, Greta Gerwig.
-She's so smart. -She's really smart.
-And one of the things she talked about the last time
she was here is no cellphones on set.
-No. -Was that the case again?
-Yeah. I mean, I'm the same. I hate having phones on set.
-Yeah.
-It's so -- It's just really distracting.
And also, you know, we're in the 1800s.
And they didn't have iPhones then.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
They had flip phones. -They had flip phones.
They had Motorolas or something.
-Yeah, yeah.
-It was like -- like the big brick phones
that you had to plug in to your Lamborghini.
-Yeah. -They had those.
-Yeah.
-The March family shared one of those.
-Yeah. It was bad. -They were very poor.
-That was the thing. Yeah.
Families back then would have
one cellphone for the whole family.
-Yeah. It was tough. It was tough.
-And very limited minutes. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like 100 minutes a week or like 50 texts or something.
-You're going to Ireland for Christmas?
-Going to Ireland for Christmas. Yeah.
-Exciting. Is your shopping done?
-Shopping's all done.
I do everything online now
because shops just stress me out anyway.
-Of course.
-And I'm -- I don't know what you're like.
But I'm a sitter more so than a stander.
So I don't like standing for prolonged periods of time.
-Gotcha.
-And in shops, there's a lot of like...that for a bit.
And I'm just not into it.
So instead I just sit on my couch and do that.
-Yeah, that's way better.
You might have noticed. For a -- I sit for a living.
-You sit for a living. You've gotten very good at it.
-I like sitting so much I said --
I said I need a desk job every day.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you -- Do you spin?
-What do you mean?
-Do you ever -- do you ever kind of think like, "You know what?
I could do more with this."
-Is -- Oh, you mean like --
-Do you ever spin around or go back?
-When the show is over and everybody leaves,
I give it one big spin.
-Just one big spin? -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
And just see how long I can go, and then whenever it stops,
I go home, yeah.
-All the lights are out. -All the lights are out.
-Have a little cry. -Yeah, 35, that's my record.
-35, that's pretty good. That's really good.
-Thanks for being here.