The first major awards show of 2025, the Golden Globes, is taking place tonight in Los Angeles. But missing in action is The Outrun and Blitz actress Saoirse Ronan. Despite both projects garnering significant hype, Ronan didn’t receive any Golden Globe nominations, nor did the films. She was among those who outlets considered snubbed for the ceremony.
Ronan was last photographed out on December 18 at BFI Southbank London, where she participated in a conversation with A Complete Unknown star Timothée Chalamet, who she worked with in Little Women and Ladybird.
For ELLE’s Women in Hollywood issue, Ronan spoke about being pitted against other young actresses. “For a while, it was me and Dakota Fanning,” she said. “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….So to feel like, ‘Oh, there’s space for all of us now,’ where there’s still healthy competition, I think it’s great.”
She also explained her decision to not be on social media, even if it has affected what roles she has gotten in the past. “I like that people don’t know my business,” she said. “I just fundamentally believe that they don’t need to. I’m an actor, and the side of me that’s out there that I want people to see is in the work.
“I also think I was very lucky that when I was coming up, it was right before social media really took off. I can see, with the slightly younger generation, how they’ve felt the pressure to have that presence. And to be honest, that is justified, because I’ve been in audition rooms where I haven’t gotten a role because I didn’t have enough Twitter followers or whatever.
“And in the end, I was like, ‘Okay, well, I don’t want to be in a movie like that, anyway.’ But when you’re coming up and nobody knows who you are, and you’re trying to make a name for yourself in the world that we’re in now, I can understand how you can give that too much importance. I was lucky that I just got past that. It doesn’t make sense to me why I would share my personal life with people I don’t know.”
