Saoirse Ronan was ‘pitted against' another actress in early career: 'There's space for all of us now'
Saoirse Ronan admitted that she was pitted against fellow actresses during the early years of her career.
The Irish actress, who has been nominated for four Oscars,
started acting as a child
growing up in
Dublin
. Her father, who was also an actor, got Saoirse started in
small TV roles
but before long she had graduated to films. She got her
big break in the 2007 film Atonement,
and even received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
But the early years weren't as easy as she made them seem, and Ronan found herself pitted against other actresses who were a similar age. Ronan told ELLE for the magazine's Women in Hollywood issue, 'For a while, it was me and Dakota Fanning.'
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'And I would love for Dakota and I to work together. She's one of the reasons why I got into acting in the first place, because when I was really young, she was working from such an early age, and
I used to watch her stuff,
' she continued.
Dakota Fanning, who is the same age as Ronan, started her acting career at just five years old, starring in the hospital series ER. After appearing in films like I Am Sam, alongside Sean Penn, and Uptown Girls, with Brittany Murphy, Fanning was an instant star all before the age of 8.
Dakota Fanning starred alongside Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds in 2005
(Image: (Photo by Jun Sato/WireImage))
She became
one of the most recognizable child stars of the early 2000s,
and continued to have huge success throughout her teen years too. At the same time, Ronan, who had a similar height, build and hair color, was also nabbing roles in some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters.
However, according to the
Brooklyn
actress, the competitive nature of the acting world seems to have faded for her, over the years.
'To feel like, oh, there's space for all of us now, where there's still healthy competition,' she said, 'I think it's great.'
Fanning, who starred in
a horror film set in the west of Ireland last year,
has a younger sister Elle who is also an actress, and previously told Elle there was never any competition between the siblings growing up.
"We have really different personalities too, so I think that's also helpful. We like different things," added Fanning.
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