Chicago Sun Times: Ronan, "Hanna wouldn't give up, would she?"

In her interview profile for the Chicago Sun Times (“Saoirse Ronan trained at breakneck pace for Hanna”), Cindy Pearlman interviews the film’s star about the little ironies in being a teenage action hero. While Hanna may be a killing machine, Ronan can’t get behind the wheel of driving one: “I want to learn how to drive a car, but we’re not legal to drive in Ireland until we’re 18. No fair!”” Ronan also speaks about the grueling conditions that she made seem so exhilarating in the movie:

Eric Bana and I had to shoot on a frozen lake. It was minus 30 degrees out there, and I didn’t have proper clothing on. I could only wear bits of fur. I was shot running across a frozen lake. I sprinted for 400 meters and thought I was going to die. Then our director Joe said, “Can we do it one more time?” I walked back and sprinted again to the point where I thought I was going to die twice. I did almost faint because it was so cold. I just kept thinking, “Hanna wouldn’t give up, would she?”