Saoirse Ronan has said she feels "fortunate" that she would be able to step away from her Hollywood career to have children without having to give up acting for good.
The 30-year-old, who grew up in Ireland and has been nominated for an Oscar four times, reportedly tied the knot with her Mary Queen of Scots co-star Jack Lowden earlier this year in Scotland.
Ronan told British Vogue: "I became successful when I was quite young. So it meant that, actually, by the time I found my partner, I’m now at the stage where if it happened, I would like to have a kid.
"I feel fortunate enough that if I step out of this for a minute, I’m hopefully not giving it up forever. But, yeah, I’ve always wanted that."
Days before her #BritishVogue interview for the November 2024 issue, news broke that #SaoirseRonan and her long-term partner, #SlowHorses star #JackLowden, had tied the knot in an intimate ceremony in Edinburgh. Although the cover star is still getting used to calling Lowden her… pic.twitter.com/kC8OuLZx9t
— British Vogue (@BritishVogue) October 16, 2024
She has worked with Slow Horses star Lowden when he produced 2024’s The Outrun, which explored alcoholism.
The Brooklyn and Little Women star has recently starred in the World War II drama Blitz, directed by Steve McQueen, as East End mother Rita, who decides to send her nine-year-old son George (Elliott Heffernan) to the countryside from war-torn London.
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Ronan said of working alongside Elliott Heffernan in the film: "One thing that pretty much every young performer has in common is that they’ll never say no, because there’s the need to please that comes from being a performer and also being a child.
"You want to be good, and you want to be liked, and you want to be loved and accepted.
"We needed to acknowledge that constantly, daily, and remember that it was up to us to remind Elliott that if he didn’t feel completely comfortable or safe, or didn’t feel like he was getting the rest that he needed, or didn’t feel right about doing certain things, that he had a voice to stop that."
A riveting silver screen presence since her early teens, when #SaoirseRonan commits to a part, the world takes note. Her latest? Playing the single mother to an evacuee son during the Second World War, in director #SteveMcQueen's history-remaking #Blitz. As she makes her debut on… pic.twitter.com/cMauPTN7y2
— British Vogue (@BritishVogue) October 16, 2024
She also said she has been asking to meet and audition for McQueen for "years", until Blitz happened.
Ronan said of the film: "As soon as (Steve) started to explain to me that it was going to follow this mother-son relationship and that we were staying back home with everyone else, I was completely hooked."
Source: Press Association
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