I don't know how Saoirse feels about this. It's been a great show. But I'll be happy she'll finally be able to rest her
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jlent — 9 years ago(July 31, 2016 10:53 AM)
Box Office for the Crucible run. Steady all the way through. Sold out one week, almost sold out a few others. Uptick in final week. Made a total of $11.7 million.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses/THE-CRUCIBLE# -
canvro — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 06:17 PM)
During an interview for the RTE Radio1 program "Inside Culture" director Ivo van Hove talks, among many other things, about Saoirse Ronan in the Crucible, I don't know if the link is permanent,
http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=b9_10634717_22498_17-10-2016_
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jlent — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 07:04 AM)
Stand back, canvro, this calls for a true obsessive who, without stenographic skills, would listen over and over just to get it right. I cleaned it up a little but this is just about verbatim.
The interviewer asked Von Hove to talk about Saoirse and Ciaran Hinds, "two of our best-known actors."
Von Hove: "Well, first of all, Saoirse, of course. It was her first play. She never was in the theater before. I knew her from the movies but it was a little bit of a risk, eh? (chuckles) because we didn't know.
"But, of course, her parents are theater people so she was almost born in the theater. You could feel it after two days. I always rehearse a play chronologically and her part, the first act she's there all the time then she's not there so much anymore, but the first act she's really there. So I had to rehearse all day the first days and after two days I said, 'Well, you're a natural, you know.'
"She really had a huge theatrical instinct. The difference between movies and theater is in the theater you have to design your own space. As an actor, it makes a lot of difference when you're in the back of the space or in the front of the space or left in the dark or in the light and she had a real instinct of where to be in that space.
"And also in movies, of course, you don't have to use your speaking muscle that much and here in the theater you have to and she really worked like a dog to make that work because it's also training. You have to train the muscle and it was every day for a thousand people so it's a huge audience.
"She was great. She was in the middle of the Oscar craziness but at the rehearsal, she was really there, totally with us and she was not looking at her mail or telephone calls or anything. She was there committed totally to us. She's a really hard worker, a great artistic spirit and an actress with a huge imagination." -
Steve7216 — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 08:13 AM)
That put a big
on my face jlent.
I was happy but certainly not surprised when I started to look at some of the tweets from the Time Out New York critic Joshua Rothkopf, someone who feels she is on the highest level in the film world today. She has always been a critics' darling, but it's nice to read praise from "professional" film writers who agree with us about her current standing in film. -
canvro — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 08:19 PM)
Of course mr. jlent
, it's fantastic you've transcribed it, and what a coincidence mr. steve, today is the 1 year anniversary of one of my favorite tweets, one of Joshua Rothkopf's about Saoirse and his fresh impression when he finished Brooklyn:
Joshua Rothkopf
@joshrothkopf
I don't know what awards are for, if they're not to give to Saoirse Ronan for that performance. Nothing else like it this year.
https://twitter.com/joshrothkopf/status/656262573277466624 -
Steve7216 — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 10:00 PM)
Great tweet indeed! I know this is not the right thread, but the following excerpt from Peter Debruge's review of Brooklyn (one of the major film critics at Variety) is one of the great compliments she has ever received:
But between the quietly powerful performance Ronan gives here and her other low-key starring role at this years Sundance, in the psychological drama Stockholm, Pennsylvania,
the former child star seems to have perfected an understated technique as emotionally devastating to audiences as icebergs are to transatlantic ocean liners.
On the surface, she may look doll-like, innocent and somewhat difficult to read, and yet we understand through the most minute touches a subtle crinkle around her eyes or a flinch in her smile the sheer depth of turmoil her characters must be going through underneath.
I've been thinking about this one lately because at some point in the future, I wish to post about how Saoirse has been a powerful emotional conduit for me, and his description of her stunning talent helps me focus on the most salient quality she possesses that has moved me so much when experiencing her work. The only problem is the difficulty I'd have in precisely explaining this in words and the personal nature of my experience.