Saoirse Ronan Talks Hanna

Saoirse Ronan, the 16-year-old actress who received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for playing Briony in Atonement and is reteaming with director Joe Wright on the 2011 Focus Features movie Hanna, recently sat down with Kyle Buchanan of New York magazine's Vulture blog.

She talked about a handful of her upcoming movies, including Hanna, and below is an extract in which she discusses her continuing creative partnership with Wright. (You can also read Wright's perspective on their collaborations here.)

So how has your relationship with Joe Wright changed since you made Atonement together? I think like any relationship, it just grew. We know each other better now, and we're closer. We have a very good working relationship and we seem to be quite in sync. Also, this time, I'm sixteen and before, I was eleven or twelve.Was he already treating you like a sixteen-year-old then? I don't think he's ever really labeled me with an age, which I'm glad of. He's always just treated me as Saoirse. I think when we started to work together on this, he got a bit of a shock that I had grown up since we'd last worked together -- mentally and physically, you're going to grow a lot in four years -- so he may have been like, "Oh my God, Saoirse's not a little kid anymore." It was quite funny for me.

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