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Irish Daily Star
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Star
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.' Read More Related Articles Donald Trump branded 'disgusting' as he honors Pope Francis in 'baffling' way Read More Related Articles Trump loses the plot as he compares tariff flip-flop to running through a wall '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. For the latest local news and features on Irish America, visit our homepage here .
South China Morning Post
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Why pleats have endured from ancient Greece to modern fashion in designs by Chanel, Issey Miyake, Fortuny and Robert Wun, and worn by Sofía Vergara, Greta Lee and Saoirse Ronan
From cocoon-like Issey Miyake separates to preppy school uniforms, pleats are ubiquitous when you really pay attention. For recent A-list examples, see Greta Lee and Saoirse Ronan , who each donned a pleated The Row gown in Los Angeles at the Lacma Art+Film Gala and at Elle's annual Women in Hollywood event respectively. On the Emmys 2024 red carpet, Sofía Vergara was a vision in a red, micro-pleated custom gown by Dolce & Gabbana. Greta Lee looks graceful in The Row draped pleats at the LACMA Art+Film Gala. Photo: AFP Advertisement While fashion has zigged and zagged as usual over the last decade, pleats have endured: remember Pieter Mulier's hit spring 2025 collection for Alaïa, shown at New York's Guggenheim Museum, which referenced the late Azzedine Alaïa's love of pleating? Or the baby blue pleated Prada gown Lupita Nyong'o wore to the 2014 Academy Awards, which planted her firmly on many a best-dressed list? Or further back, with Marilyn Monroe's famous pleated ivory halter dress in 1955's The Seven Year Itch, and French couturier Madame Grès' signature Hellenic draped gowns made in mid-century Paris, which inspire countless designers (Alaïa and Mulier included) to this day? Saoirse Ronan has worn pleats on several high-profile occasions – such as the Elle Women in Hollywood celebration in LA. Photo: AP Big picture, decades are a blink of an eye; in a way, humans have almost never not worn pleats. According to New York-based fashion historian Ruby Redstone, pleated fabrics can be traced back to Ancient Greece, when togas were the pinnacle of style. While people once assumed that the Greeks were simply manipulating fabric and belting the pleats in place, studies done in the 50s through to the 70s revealed that they used egg white paste to fix the folded fabric, Redstone says. 'They'd use the paste to create the organic-looking rippling pleats that would fall down to the ground, but [the fabrics] would dry really stiff. The stiff togas we see in marble sculptures are actually probably more representative of what the dresses looked like,' she explains.
