Good news! After many, many years of following Saoirse Ronan’s career, I’m finally able to spell her name from memory. I’m a historically bad speller, so this is my accomplishment of the month. Now, pronouncing her name? I still struggle, as most non-Irish people probably do. The best way to think about the pronunciation is just to ignore the letters and say “Ser” (pronounced like “kir” in kir royale) and “sha”. Ser-sha. Well, no one thought to tell Dennis Quaid, because he Adele Dazeem’d the crap out of poor Saoirse’s name yesterday at the Golden Globes announcement:
That was bad. I go back and forth on this – he probably didn’t think to prepare, which is on him, but seriously – everyone mispronounces her name! For the longest time, I thought her name was pronounced with a “w” sound. Like, I kept saying Sworsha. She’s a relative of Thwor.
Anyway, Ser-sha has had a great week. She got SAG and Golden Globe nominations for her work in Brooklyn, and most critics have her on the shortlist to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination. She’s also won a handful of critics’ awards too. So where was she when she learned of her Golden Globe nomination? She was at home in Dublin, at the salon, getting her nails done. She told E! News that she just happened to be getting gold nail polish put on when her phone rang: “I finally answered it and it was my publicist but I said I couldn’t talk because I was getting a manicure. But then he told me. Everyone in the nail salon cheered and we had champagne.”
Saoirse also chatted to E! about her connection to America – she was apparently born in the Bronx, and then she just grew up in Ireland. She probably holds dual passports/citizenship. E! News asked her about that experience and the story of Brooklyn (that of an Irish immigrant in 1950s NYC), and she ended up slamming Donald Trump for all of his horrible fascism. Saoirse said this about Trump:
“What an idiot. I think he needs more than Brooklyn to sharpen up his mind a bit. Thank God not everyone thinks like that man. To have a film coming out around this time where there are so many immigrants that are just being so kind of thrown into the one group and being tarred with the one brush, it’s unfair and it’s prejudice. If you can take a story like this and look at one immigrant story and make it something that’s individual and personal, hopefully people can then be more empathetic with all these people who are literally giving up everything they know and everything they have to have a better life, to have a life.”
That’s one of the things that bugs me the most about Donald Trump, actually. I mean, he’s a total douchebag and yes, a fascist, but I literally cringe when I see that he’s making headlines outside of America. What does Ireland think of him? What does the UK think of him? What does India think of him? It’s the worst. He’s the worst. And I hope Saoirse continues to speak her mind about this and everything else.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Great actress! Great comment!
Yes I agree on both points.
A lot of my family live in Europe and a couple in Asia and Austrailia, we are on a what’s app group. We all are baffled that Trump can say such abhorable things and is popular. We agreed that if you put the word Jew in each of his sentences instead of Mexican, blacks, Muslims, Asians etc would everyone react differently and the media would be more serious about this and treating his words as hate speech and as hate crimes.
I treat all the religions with equal contempt and respect.
He said some obnoxious things to Jewish group recently, too … suggesting they were “good negotiators,” only interested in money, etc. Needless to say, his stereotypical “jokes” were not appreciated.
The only group Donald Trump likes is the hairs on his head and the only individual Donald Trump likes is Donald Trump.
Really??? A celebutard calling a self-made billionaire stupid? LOL!!
Oh wow a billionaire!
Just curious: was that before or after he filed for bankruptcy four times?
LOL! Can you really call someone “self-made” when they inherited hundreds of millions of dollars? You can make money off of money by not even doing anything with it (interest).
I love jokes as much as the next person, I tend to enjoy dark humour so I have a wide breadth for jokes. But he has taken it out of the “joke”realm and it’s comfortably in the hate speech areana. If he said Latinos are good negotiators and Muslims like money I’d side eye it, but he’s not saying that, he’s saying Latinos are murderers and rapists and to ban Muslims from the U.S., I won’t go on cause it’s sickening.
How does this sound Jews are murderers and rapists and Jews should be banned from US.
It’s disgusting regardless of which group he talks about!
Self-made? Didnt Trump get a million dollars from his daddy to fund his ventures?
The irony of that statement is that if Donald didn’t do anything with his inherited wealth and just let it sit in the bank accruing interest he would today be worth just as much as his is now with all that so called “sharp business insight” of his. The guy is the biggest fraud on the planet. Self made billionaire? Please!
@Neil–actually, he would be worth MORE. So rather than a self-made millionaire, he’s someone who has made himself worth less than when he started.
@qhnnn — ‘celebutard’? Wow, you are definitely in a particular, peculiar demographic. And how kind of you to portmanteau your way into being offensive towards two categories of folk.
Most people in the UK think he’s an idiot (there has just been a petition with over 500,000 signatures to ban him from the UK on hate speech grounds). Even people like David Cameron and Boris Johnson addressed his idiotic claims about the UK (he said that there are areas of London that are no-go zones for the police, which is patently untrue).
Spot on – he is a figure of ridicule here in the UK. I think the petition has been the most popular ever on the government site.
This is a good read if anyone is interested …http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/08/donald-trump-famous-muslims-us-history
Thank you! I shared on Facebook. 🙂
Hooray english people, good job!
Most people in the United States think he’s an idiot too.
Actually, I don’t think he’s an idiot. He’s brilliant, calculating, and cartoonishly evil. Like Hitler crossed with Lex Luther. He won’t be president but I worry he’ll be far more powerful. He has unlimited resources and the media, even the media he doesn’t own, gives him headlines for sneezing. Whichever Democrat we end up electing will be asked repeatedly throughout their term(s) to respond to Trump’s latest insane comments. He’ll become just as powerful in influencing public opinion as our elected leaders. This man is no idiot.
Nah. I mean, I agree with you in the sense that I think he’s brilliant at getting headlines but his perspicacity ends there.
I absolutely, unequivocally do not believe he holds any real power beyond the domestic influence he has here in the States–which let’s be honest, isn’t all that much.
Truthfully, nobody outside of the US takes this guy seriously. He has ZERO international presence outside of the fact that people hate him. All in all, he’s pretty useless in terms of influence really.
If he was brilliant, he would have researched the details of policy by now and would be able to articulate it other than saying “I’ll be great”.
By the way he talks in vague terms, he really seems clueless on anything involving international terrorism, domestic policy, constitution, what the president actually does, etc.
It’s such a trip that he was considered a joke the last time he ran for president and now so many people are listening to him as though he’s saying anything worth consideration.
I agree with you guys that he’s too stupid to understand policy, but his brand of evil genius still makes him dangerous. Personally, I don’t even think he’ll get the Republican nomination. But I don’t think that’s even his goal. My guess is he’s angling to be a one man Fox News, like Rush used to be only more omnipresent, maybe with his own network. What does a narcissist who already has everything want? More attention.
Many people in the United States think poorly of Obama. Trump hasn’t figured out how to get his point, valid it may be, across diplomatically.
He’s the court jester, he’s there to distract us and make the other Republican candidates look better than they are.
Here’s what I don’t get..I cannot imagine under any circumstances an American celeb being asked their opinion of any European political campaign..in fact, if you asked them, I bet the vast majority couldn’t tell you who was running where (unless they had a home there). As a registered independent, I know trump is a thin-skinned bully and would never consider voting for him..but honestly..sometimes I get a kick over all the heads exploding whenever he opens his mouth😉
True but it’s not like Trump’s comments are strictly about the U.S.
Whether it’s implying that all Mexicans are rapists and all Muslims/Indians/Asians are terrorists that need to be banned there’s a very global aspect to his ignorance.
Most politicians are smart enough to focus their platform on their own regions so asking a U.S. celeb about a referendum or speech on Scotland wouldn’t carry much impact.
Being told that your death or deaths of your loved ones were your fault for not carrying guns however reverberates all the way across the globe.
This. Of course he is an idiot. But it frightens me that I understand completely why so many people are behind him. The climate is perfect for fearmongering against immigrants because the US is extremely vulnerable right now. San Bernadino brought ISIS into my backyard.
Totally agree with Eternal Side-Eye. Also, politicians (in the UK at least) are not shy about correcting US candidates when they get things about the UK wrong. I still remember Mitt Romney’s disastrous UK visit just before the Olympics in 2012.
It is because Americans are so American centric. It is not a compliment.
The news in other countries cover the world. In the US the only time we hear about the rest of the world is when the US gets involved in its next war or the designated enemy state of the time (like Iran, Russia, North Korea etc.) does something.
The thing I hate about Trump is that he’s gifting that right-winger Clinton the presidency by making her look like a moderate. When she wins expect another government of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%.
Dangles, true but the other side of that coin is that he’s making the Repugnicans look like ass clowns. As I said above, though, he won’t be the nominee, so Hillary won’t get that bump from him. Not that the other contenders are much better. (And whose to say Hillary has a lock on the Democrats?)
I just get the feeling that everything is falling into place for her even though I hope Sanders wins. Although even if he does win I won’t get my hopes up after being let down by Obama.
I”ll believe in change when I see it.
You’re not going to see any meaningful change unless the Democrats control at least two branches of government. It blows my mind how people criticise President Obama for not getting things done when the Republicans, who have explicitly said they will block everything he tries, control the House and the Senate.
Republicans control both the House and the Senate because the voters were sick of HRH Obama and wanted to get him under control.
I don’t think that the people who were expecting change from President Obama were the ones voting for the Republicans in the midterms. They stayed home, making voter turnout in 2014 the lowest since WWII.
MORE SAOIRSE!
For once we agree on an actor/actress! 🙂 She’s SO talented!
+2
It’s interesting that’s how she pronounces her name. I am Irish living in Ireland and we would go by Seersha! So glad her career is taking off, she’s a phenomenal actress.
So true, and I really like the diversity of her choices. I really enjoyed the little Byzantium (with Gemma Arterton, another one I really appreciate) and The way back.
So, with her competing against Blanchett, it’s a Hanna reunion at the Globes!
I knew an Irish woman with the same name who pronounced it Seersha as well.
Yes my previous landlord named her daughter Saoirse and she pronounces it “Seersha” as well. I also have a friend who just named her daughter that. It’s not an uncommon name around Boston with all the Irish descendants. It’s sort of like the new “Siobhan” which was an incredibly popular name for girls when I was growing up.
When I’m not sure how to pronounce a name, I always check it on You Tube. It helped me with Chiwetel Ejiofor as well as Saoirse’s.
As noted above, it was pronounced as “Seer-sha” with three syllables.
I don’t know much about Saoirse, but glad to see she’s not only pretty and talented, but smart as well. Trump is an idiot and I’m appalled that so many Republicans buy into his blatant bigotry.
She does go by Seer-sha but she pronounces it slightly differently when she is in the states for some reason. I remember seeing her interviewed a while ago when she discussed her name.
Is that not how she pronounces it? I thought “kir” rhymed with “Seer”?
More Saoirse, please!
She does such consistently brilliant work, it’s lovely to see her name back on the shortlists.
As for Trump, most of us here in the UK tend to just laugh/sigh at how someone who doesn’t have a pair of brain cells to his name, has declared bankruptcy three times (?) and is quite clearly morally bankrupt himself is even in the running for President.
Occasionally tinged with a slight pinch of fear that people might actually vote for him.
I’ll just leave this John Oliver clip here — http://youtu.be/oDPCmmZifE8
LOVE John Oliver!
I’m glad people don’t praise Trump, he has said the most disturbing stupid racist things during the presidential campaign that I’m surprised he’s still in the running.
I’m slightly concerned about how attracted I am to John Oliver.
The Last Week Tonight is basically my homepage now.
@Amelia omg me too! him & Steve Carell. In my defense Steve Carell has been looking mighty fine lately.
@Kaiser
I really don’t know if it’s comforting or annoying but the majority of the countries outside the U.S. hate this man like poison. Many places want to ban him and as for Scotland they’re stripping him of his titles and awards. I hope all his business in other places of the world ends up drying up and shriveling because this man…is disgusting.
He’s horrid. I’m disgusted with anyone who doesn’t immediately dismiss him as the nasty joke he is. He’s proving himself to be much too similar to another loud-mouthed, fascist, hate-mongering monster who’s initials are AH. If he makes it past the primaries I’m moving.
LOL @Shambles. I said the same thing when it became known he was running on the GOP ticket: I’m out of here if he wins!
When GWB was (s)elected president, there was a worldwide outpouring of people offering us dissenters a spare bedroom, a couch, a mattress on the floor, an attic room, etc. as refuge. Will our non-American CB friends do that this time? Please?
He’s a national embarrassment. He won’t get the nom, but if he did, I’d uproot my entire family, move, and relinquish my citizenship. He’s a vile, dangerous slug.
Everyone who wants to move – and who can blame you – if you believe at this point it’s more than venting in frustration, then it behooves you to look at your options. Other countries have their own rules about taking people in, and it’s not likely any American at this point – at this point – could claim refugee status. The best thing to do is narrow your choices based on your ability to get work, employ your assets there, etc. Look at your language abilities and your portability. Who would want you and why? What would be your timeline? What would you have to do first, second, third?
As for relinquishing US citizenship, be sure you have another one first. That could take some time. If you do apply to relinquish, they’ll check that you’re not doing it for tax reasons, plus the fees have been raised.
Meanwhile, we all have the option of fighting like crazy for other candidates who fit under the bell curve, as well as for Congressional candidates who have actual working hearts. Gerrymandering has worked out exactly as planned for the right wing.
Thanks for that! Best news I heard all day. I despise Trump and still cannot fathom people are supporting his blatant fascism, racism and prejudiced remarks. Saw him with Bill O’Reilly and he still would not answer any direct questions, just kept going back to his ridiculous catch phrases “build a wall” or “make American great again”…..It is disgraceful that there are Americans in this country that support this idiot! It’s like he has tapped into all this latent racism that still exists and it has exploded. UGH! Great comment by Saoirse! People need to keep talking out against this man.
Completely agree! I’m Canadian and most of the people I know, both Canadian and American, think Trump is the epitome of the “Ugly American”…a loudmouth, narcissistic bully, rude, racist, the list goes on… If he won, I might have to move to Europe. Canada feels too close! Love Saoirse! I think she’s a very good actress.
That’s what I’ve heard too … Canada is still too close and too dependent on the USA. At least leadership is changed and there is a somewhat lower chance of blind ly following US foreign policy. Somewhat. Time will tell!
Trump’s picture is in the dictionary next to the word “lout.”
If he wins (and I am finally old enough to NOT vote for this fool), I’m moving in with Littlestar–even if I have to bring my own blow up mattress.
I am from Ireland, and I agree with everything you say, he just repeats the same thing, the wall, make america great, how great his poll numbers are , how rich he is. I dont like him, and hope he doesnt become president, but I do find him very entertaining and it will be something if he goes up against Hillary in the election. I have to say all my family are constantly talking about him and they couldnt name another republican candidate, so he is definetly in my opinion getting international regognition whether good or bad.
Believe me, I don’t know why he is not hated by all my fellow Americans also. The people who support him, why? Don’t they understand he is a blowhard, full of jingoistic statements that have no place in real world politics? Apparently not. I cannot imagine a world in which he is president.
He’s hated by most Americans as well.
Only 25% of our population support this dude. Don’t get me wrong, 25% is still an astoundingly high number of people, but it’s certainly not the majority.
I love her name. It looks beautiful in print and I am happy to finally know how it is pronounced.
The sad thing about Trump supporters is the enjoyment they take in his bullying. His ‘facts’ are proven wrong and THEY DON’T CARE. He promises things that are illegal or unconstitutional and THEY DONT CARE. He says one thing then says he didn’t even when it is proven otherwise and THEY DONT CARE. They don’t care that he has not provided any substance about policy or how he will actually accomplish anything if elected. Apparently Trump saying he will make America great again is enough. They find him entertaining, that he says what they are thinking and that he represents what America has been lacking. Which appears to be an unfiltered, bombastic blowhard.
The people who support him are jingoistic blowhards themselves, so he makes them feel validated.
@SusanneToo
If you don’t mind cold and snow up here in Canada, you’re welcome to my spare room. We just got rid of our paranoid, right-wing, lunatic leader, so I kinda know how enlightened Americans feel right now.
@Kitten,
Not exactly. 25% of registered Republican voters support him. That group only makes up like 7-8% of the general population. Still alarmingly high for someone like Trump, but not quite as terrifying.
Here’s an article by Nate Silver that provided me with some comfort yesterday 🙂
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dear-media-stop-freaking-out-about-donald-trumps-polls/
Thanks um hogtowngooner (cool…somewhat baffling…name). The press is doing a lousy job of keeping things in perspective because they just want to sell ads and get clicks. Shame on them.
Oh thank you for clarifying. I realized after I posted that I got the 25% based on the percentage of Americans who support Trump’s immigration proposal.
“However, at least 57 percent Americans reject Trump`s proposal. The survey found that 25 percent of Americans support the proposal and 18 percent have no opinion or are ‘not sure’ about it.”
http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/only-57-americans-against-donald-trumps-anti-muslim-agenda-guess-who-is-intolerant_1833302.html
But thanks again for giving me hope! 😉
@who are these people, hogtowngooner is an Arsenal fan (gooner) from Toronto (Hogtown). Nicknames everywhere.
Well, he is an idiot, so good for her.
I’m of English and Irish descent and I would never have gotten that pronunciation out of the spelling of her name. Same with Siobhan, which I think is pronounced She-Von? But he should have prepared.
I worked with a woman named Siobhan, and yes, you have it right.
she had this super-Irish first name and a REALLY super-Italian last name. always gave people a “HUH?” moment when she introduced herself.
How do they get that pronunciation from those letters? Lol
From my understanding, Trump is fairly well-known in the UK due to a massive dispute he’s had in Scotland. Long story short, Trump wants to try to force some Scottish farmers to sell their land so he can build a luxury golf course and they’ve been resisting him and he’s been using some underhanded tactics to try to force the sale. But it’s been sort of a thing in the UK, so they are fairly familiar with him from that.
(If you’re curious, there is a documentary about the Scottish Trump fight called You’ve Been Trumped. It is well worth a watch)
Sam, I watched that documentary, it shows what a horrible man he really is.
Embarrassingly, I don’t know how to pronounce kir royale, so I am still confused as to how to pronounce her name.
But, Donald makes headlines in Australia. But general consensus is that he is crazy. And at moments like this I am grateful for my dual citizenship so I can have a say.
Every time I see her name, I think “Swor-see” in my head which is so completely wrong. Ser-sha, ser-sha, ser-sha. Someday I will remember. It’s a really cool name too.
She is a super talented actress, hoping to go see her new movie next weekend.
I loved her and Eric Bana in Hanna. She was also good in The Lovely Bones.
Trump is not crazy or idiot. That would be too easy. He is a very smart calculating bully and sociopath.
And the fact that so many Americans support him is not just outrageous and embarrassing but scary.
The fact that this person so popular in the country which currently rules the world is telling and Americans should take responsibility not only for what is happening in their own country but also for what they’ve done to the world.
Not as many as you might think. The polls and the news don’t show the conservatives who are disgusted by him too. My mother is a die-hard Republican who would rather gouge her eyes out with a teaspoon than vote Democratic. But she’s willing to do it if it keeps Trump from being President.
The fact that people keep parroting this notion of Trump being popular in the US shows what amazing PR this guy has. His campaign is f*cking brilliant in that sense.
The reality is that we’re at the point where we have people in his own party denouncing him. His politics are problematic and the majority of Americans know it.
However, I’m still horrified that ANYONE would vote for this dude. I noticed that when Trump-supporters are asked what they see in Trump it’s always some version of the same vague response: “I like his ideas” or “Finally someone I agree with”. In other words, I can’t help but feel that he’s preying upon the most politically ignorant portion of GOP voters. Like, these are the people who call Pres. Obama “uppity” and “arrogant” but think GWB would be a “cool guy to have a beer with”.
TBH, every single one of my Republican friends agree that Trump is a joke. Then again, all my friends are smart as hell so there’s that…
Agree with you both. Every time I panic, my husband reminds me that 30% of the most conservative people in the country approve of him, not 30% of the country. That means (obviously) that 70% of the most conservative people in the country won’t vote for him.
If eligible voters under the age of 40 give enough of a sh*t to vote, I seriously doubt an idiot like Trump will get elected. I have doubts that the Republicans have enough extremists in the party make him their candidate.
If he does get nominated, I think it will solidify a Democratic victory, since he’s so divisive. The majority of Americans don’t buy into his message of nationalism and bigotry.
On a related note, is anyone following the Humans of New York stories of the Syrian refugees? They have been a wonderful antidote to all of Trumps hateful rhetoric.
I panicked when Bush started the Iraq war. And everybody else was going rah! rah! rah! We are the best!
And it turned out my panic was justified.
The consequences are not always immediate. For Donald to happen there had to be Bush and McCain and Chaney and Rumsfeld and others. It is a progression.
And even looking at the Dems side, both Obama and Hillary are such political animals. There is no ounce of sincerity in them. They do whatever their donors and puppeteers want them to do.
Obama promised transparency. Where is that? Instead we have CIA which is absolutely out of control and does whatever they want. I think Obama is afraid of them.
I think Trump’s popularity is WAY exaggerated. I live in the Deep South, and he goes too far for even the hardcore conservatives that I know. He just gets played by the media like he’s a thing, because it’s clickbait and crazy sells in the day and age.
I also live in the South of the US. And I heard my kids teachers talk about him in a positive way to a group of parents. I was shocked.
What scares me is that there’s not a lot of policy differences between him and the rest of the Republican field (especially Ted Cruz). Trump just speaks more bluntly than the rest of them.
@ Farhi: It’s scary that an educator would see Trump as anything positive. Thankfully, I have not seen much support for him where I am. I would probably pull my kids from that class, hahaha. I would look askance at how well that teacher is shaping young minds, especially with nurturing critical thinking and diversity, while supporting someone like Trump.
@ Tina: YES. Say it. No idea what happened to the Republican party. I feel like any choice in this election is between: “batshit crazy liar mcliarsons who want us to be corporate slaves and destroy the environment” and “slightly less batshit crazy liar mcliarsons who will at least attempt some rationality, even if just for show”. Not a good choice, all around.
I read this yesterday and have shared it with my friends.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/its-not-chaos-its-trumps-campaign-strategy/2015/12/09/9005a5be-9d68-11e5-8728-1af6af208198_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumpmethod-750pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
It seems to follow something called the Overton window. Wikipedia is where I found the definition.
He is a politic opportunist .He is outrageous and provocative but I don’t buy that he believes in what he says .I am pretty sure that he was even surprised by his new politic success and that he understood that a (very conservative) part of USA is frustrated by Obama’s 8 years ( he is black skinned,clever,popular and democrat.Gay marriage…)
We have the same problem in France with Lepen’s women
There’s an element of truth to what you say — he used to be a Democrat. I don’t think he’s crazy, either. I think he is whipping up the crazies, however, and that’s dangerous.
She’s the pretty girl from the Lovely Bones that now has lovely bones and is spot on in regard to the Trumpster. He makes my skin crawl.
Trump is stoking the flames of nativism, racism and sheer idiocy.
I wrongly predicted that he would be out of the race by now; I underestimated just how stupid and gullible some people can be.
If polls are to be believed, it’s just Republicans that buy into his message — and not even all of them. I can only hope that this will strengthen the Democratic voting numbers with the independents and non-party affiliates that can see how dangerous his rhetoric is.
Yes, it’s definitely only Republicans, and as a Democrat, it’s fine with me if they nominate that clown.
It is not only democrats. There are plenty of unaffiliated people who are buying what he is selling. It is very similar to the gun control discussion dynamics.
I honestly wonder if many would be resigned to vote for the party line just so they didn’t vote for a democrat.
Now *that’s* a frightening thought.
But, as I said before, it’s not a majority of Republicans – it’s only around 30%.
I grew up in a community of Republicans and NRA members and can confirm that they will never vote for a Democrat, no matter how idiotic the Republican is.
Remember the time Donny and Marie Osmond (I know, I’m old) introduced Fionnula Flanagan at some awards show?
Donny, bless his heart, gargled it around and came out with “Fee-onn-you-walla,” after which Ms. Flanagan smiled graciously and said in her lilting Irish accent, “It’s ‘Finn-oo-la.'”
Bless you for bringing up Donny and Marie. As a kid, I loved those variety shows, especially the country music ones like Hee Haw and Mandrell Sisters.
I know, my standard for viewing pleasure was really low back then… sheesh.
Wait till Fox hears about this. You in danger, girl.
Wait till Trump hears this.
We all know how he likes to lash out and target anyone who dares to criticize him.
AND she’s a woman! Daring to criticize The Donald!! Bet he can’t pronounce her name so he won’t say anything lol.
PS: Canada loathes him as well. I think he’s a source of fear and ridicule for most people who like to think.
We need to see more of her, she’s such a great actress and in learned something new today, if someone asked me to say her name I would have done some injustice to it. Is that a common name?
Love the eye makeup in the first picture, not everyone can pull that off
It’s an Irish name and it’s not overly common, but everyone has definitely heard if it in Ireland. I know a few. It means ‘freedom’ in Irish.
Kaiser – Trump is making headlines in my country, and I’m from Argentina, especially after his statement regarding Mexicans and latin americans. The worst part is that some people take Trump as some common denominator and believe you’re all the same.
What I really can’t get my head around is the fact he hates inmigrants so much when he a) married 2, b) his children are half foreign, and c) unless he is Native American all the way, he is the product of inmigration. It seems there’s only one acceptable kind of inmigrant – he s/he is white.
No, not only white. Syrians are white.
An only acceptable type of an immigrant for him is Christian, white, beautiful and rich and knows his/her place.
^^Nailed it^^
👏👏👏👏👏
So basically his future wives?
Farhi – I meant exactly that. Ameicans have a certain definition of white from which Syrians are excluded. Even I am excluded because I am latin american, regardless of my german and celtic ancestry.
Yeah, Americans are weird and sensitive about who they define as white. They don’t seem to include latinos, people from the middle east… but technically speaking, unless a person is asian or black, he/she is white.
Except that hasn’t always been the case, lila fowler.
There is no “technicality” involved at all.
‘White’ has always been a fluid term that, depending on the political climate, has been inclusive when it has benefited the wasp majority. Jews (ashkenazi) until recently were not ‘white’, neither were the irish like Saoirse, italians were definitely not considered white either…I could go on but you get the point.
It wasn’t until very recently middle easterns and some “hispanics” mestizos were considered ‘white’.
“Race” is a social construct that really means nothing unless it is to gain power and privilege.
Right now ‘whites’ need the numbers so they are starting to include hispanics, even the mestizo ones with obvious black/african heritage.
LOL, everyone in Ireland and the UK already thought Donald Trump was an idiot in Ireland long before his bid for presidency. How can anyone wit that hair be taken seriously?
The “problem” is that since always,Trump is entertaining,without filter has humor on himself .
She’s my new hero. Rock on lady!
I’ve had a dumb crush on Saoirse for a while now, and it’s like very year that goes by it does not get better. I already had a thing for Irish girls and she is like the epitome of irishness. n a showbiz where the offspring of famous and wealthy people is taking over, her upbringing actually has seen its fair share of struggle, being the daughter of undocumented, working-class migrants in the Bronx (of course, not as bad as the same for people of color, but there is still street-cred there). Her parents seem to be very protective and sharp, which is exactly what a child star needs to be normal. And on top of that she is well-read. To stop with the gushing, please, please let us have more of her.
P.S: She’s made good friends with Brie Larson, so I see an actually interesting group of friends burgeoning there. Brie uploaded a picture of her and Dame Mirren in her IG.
Bwahahahaha! Love it.
Sersha?! God damn. This whole time I read it as “Sears” lol.
So glad for her. Gorgeous and absurdly talented.
Well, some people here in Brazil actually wish for him to be president. A few days ago he was making headlines for not wanting any muslims to enter the US and people commented that they agreed with that. It seems to me that they don’t realize that after banning muslims, he will ban latin americans, them included.
I have relatives living in Western Canada. They love Trump! I think there’s a lot of people who agree with what he says but don’t have the guts to come out and admit it because of backlash. My nephew lives in New Orleans and says there’s a lot of support for him there as well. Personally I’d be embarrassed to have this guy running for leadership. Can you envision Trump and Putin sitting in a room together? Two massive egos. Scary
I really hope that she (or Brie Larson) win all of the awards. Anyone but the insufferable Cate Blanchett.
Ms. Ronan is a spectacularly talented actress but I’m getting a bit tired of celeb political statements. I don’t care for Trump, but I wish celebrities knew enough about politics to mention also that candidates like him, and the FN in France, and the Sweden Democrats, have been given their opportunities by establishment parties who do as they please once they’re elected and ignore voter concerns the rest of the time.
The political scene is a complex and shifting one. I’m tired of celebrities throwing out simple one liners. Should the unthinkable happen and Trump win the nomination or elected office, Ms. Ronan will basically also have called millions of Americans idiots.
Why don’t celebrities think things through more before spouting off?
If Trump wins the election, I’d be calling millions of Americans idiots, too.
I am reminded of this classic Daily Mirror headline: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushdumbpeople.htm
Loved her in every single film I’ve seen her in. Effortless acting and perfect accents – and sorry to hate on Kate Winslet so much but – Kate Winslet and other I-can-see-you-trying-to-emote actors need to check this young lady out. The effort and deliberateness isn’t right there on the screen for you to see. She just does it.
I once compared Trump to the kid running for class President that promises all the vending machines will be free.
His statements are disgusting and any American that supports him should be ashamed of themselves. If you replaced Christian with any other race or religion he’s demoralized the outcry would be deafening.
It’s sir-sha like inertia.
Some girls called Saoirse pronounce it seer-sha, just not Saoirse Ronan.