No amount of magic can make him forget that he missed the train to Hogwarts: Saoirse Ronan, whose career has since taken off, brought up the subject during a recent appearance on set. Jimmy Kimmel Live. The Oscar-nominated young woman has really talked about the roles she would like to take on, and losing the role of the eccentric Luna Lovegood, played by fellow Irishman Evan Lynch, in the Harry Potter saga was an experience she has never forgotten. , even after so many years.
“There are things that you miss and then they come back and you’re like, “Oh my God, that was a mistake on my part.”” he said (via Entertainment Weekly ). “But I think what stuck with me over the years is that I didn’t say no, I just didn’t get the part. I lost it again. This is a recurring theme for me, years ago I auditioned for Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter.“
He continued: “It was an Irish character, so they cast all the Irish. Half of Ireland came and auditioned.” Saoirse Ronan However, he admitted that he knew he wouldn’t get the role because he was “very young“But there was still an opportunity to read the scene”Coolest thing ever“.
Luna Lovegood was featured in the fifth installment of the film franchise, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, in 2007. Evana Lynch He made his debut in the desired role in the same year Saoirse Ronan She shone in the war romance, Come Back to Me, in which she played the role of Keira Knightley’s younger sister. A blessing in disguise since the role earned her her first Oscar nomination at just 13 years old.
initial, Saoirse Ronan She’s been nominated four more times at the prestigious ceremony and now headlines again with her new drama The Outrun, in which she plays a woman trying to come to terms with her troubled past. Speaking to Jimmy Kimmel, he joked that he was “Defeated four times“At the Oscars and the fact that her husband Jack Lowden (Dunkirk), who was nominated for Slow Horses, also lost at the Emmy Awards this year.
“We are the house of losers“- he joked. “I think I’m so used to losing now that I’m like, “Okay, you’re in the second category, so when you lose, we’re going to go to the bar – because it’s bound to happen – and we’re going to go. We’ll get popcorn and have a good night, and it doesn’t matter if we both lose.”
As for whether or not Jack Lowden was offended by this assumption: “He knew he was going to loseRonan said with a laugh. “We have very low expectations of ourselves.“
The Outrun, which hit our big screens on October 2nd, is currently available in theaters.
Watch Saoirse Ronan’s interview in full in the video below:
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