Saoirse. Saoirse. Are you ever going to make a bad movie? This is getting silly.
Aw, thanks!
Now, you must be... The outdoors. Every film, you're surviving the outdoors. You must be
an expert now.
Listen, throw me out in the woods with 10 years olds to look after for a few weeks when
World War III breaks out. You'll be fine.
I can't believe this bit. You're 19, so could you give a 19-year-old's top tips for surviving
the great outdoors?
A typical 19-year-old or an experienced one like myself?
What do you need? Lipgloss?
I'm not into lipgloss, even though I'm wearing it right now. I'm a bit uncomfortable with
that. I suppose you need a pen knife. I always like a cup of tea in the morning. So, cup
of tea, you know tea bags and a kettle. That's always very important. Some beans. And a thick
knit? A thick knit. Jumper. A brush. Keeping up appearance, you know.
I spoke to your director of this film, and I said what I liked about certainly the first...
I liked it all, but the first half was how comfortable the sweaters looked, and he actually
said you took one of them home with you.
No, I didn't. Did I? The nice one... No, he didn't give it to me. I wanted it, though.
He's... He's telling you porky pies. Is he? No, they didn't give me that, but I did get
other clothes. Um, I wish I had gotten the jumper.
That was the most comfortable jumper I've ever worn, though. So I would really like
it if I could. But yeah, we had great clothes in it.
Now, your character is someone who is trying to make sense of the world. I think part of
the theme of the movie is the fact that sometimes nothing makes sense. No. Life is chaos, which
she kind of embraces. Do you think there's a similarity between an actor's life? Because
you must just go into projects going well, I hope they're good. I don't know if they
will be.
Yeah, you don't know. I actually think that movie life is less chaotic than real life.
Real life can be totally nuts, but when you're on a film, you're told this is where you're
going to be, what time you're going to be picked up at. You know, things like that.
Everything's got a routine, and it's quite nice. And I guess as well, I've been doing
it since I was quite young, so it's like second nature to move into that environment for a
little while. But I really enjoy it. But yeah, that's kind of the risk that you take with
everything. You never know, even if it's a great director, even if it's a huge film and
it's got like $100 million behind it, you still don't know if it's going to be any good
or if people at the time are going to be interested in that kind of subject or you know, there's
a lot of things that need to add up I think.
Do you always look for edgy projects though? Because it does seem like the things you do
seem to have more critical weights toward them. I don't know if that's something you
choose.
Well, I want yeah... I mean, I want them to be good I suppose. I want to do things that
I think are good and I don't think I could really give myself to it 100% if I didn't
believe that it was a good project, you know. But I guess it's just a personal thing for
me, and I've been lucky that I've gotten to work with great directors like Kevin and Pete
and people like that.
Well, that was the other thing. I just wanted to remind myself to ask you that you've worked
with very famous actors and well-known directors, but you've obviously by your performances
never seemed phased. And I just wanted to know if there's if there's anybody that you
were initially like oh okay I'm out of my depth and then you get over it.
I don't think so. They've all been great. Almost everyone that I've worked with has
been so fantastic to work with. I don't think there's been anyone that's made me feel that
way. You know.
I've been lucky in that way. However, if Kristen Wiig was in the room and I was supposed to
do a scene with her, I think I'd just have a huge grin on my face the whole time because
I think she's wonderful.
So you love her, but you think I'd be wicked to be in a film with her as well?
It'd be amazing to be in a film with her, but I probably wouldn't do anything. I'd just
gaze at her.
Comedy? A bit of comedy?
Yeah, I'd love to. I mean, I don't know if I'd be any good at it, but that's my favourite
genre. It's my favourite thing to watch, and I've grown up with really great comedy in
my life because my mum and dad are into it as well, so I'd love to do something like
that. Definitely yeah.
Can I ask you about Ryan Gosling before I go?
Yup.
You are working with him?
I've worked with him already, yeah. It's all done? It's all done. Done and dusted.
Now, he's got that whole too cool for school thing. Is he actually cool?
Yeah. He's really cool.
Now, he seems quite serious.
Not really, no. He's not. I mean, he's... Ryan's a goofball. Ryan's great. That's all
there is to it. He's lovely, and... I mean he takes his job seriously and he took what
we were doing very seriously, but he's the best to be around. He's so much fun with you're
with him.
Can I ask very quickly, did you have friends texting you going, can I come out and see
you? And you're like no, I'm busy.
No. Well, I was in Detroit, so they didn't want to come there in case something happened
to them. Detroit isn't as bad as everyone thinks. It's great. But I remember I told
one of my best friends and she'd always said to me if I ever worked with Robert Pattinson
or Ryan, she needed to come with me, and I so I told her... Guess what? I'm working with
Ryan Gosling, and she grabbed my wrist like that really right. She's like, I'm going to
kill you. That was her way of being really happy for me, so she's excited.