Saoirse Ronan has opened up about dealing with “incredibly chauvinistic” people in the film industry.
The Oscar-nominated actress spoke to students in Scoil ChaitrÃona in Glasnevin during a Penguin Talks session on Thursday night, where she talked about her experiences dealing with sexism on set.
She said: “I mean, I’m more aware of it now. I will say, that for me in my work, I’ve been very, very lucky that I’ve been around a lot of grownups – men and women – who were just very supportive and encouraged me to actually speak and ask questions.
“But I have noticed, even with a couple of things that I’ve been on recently, I’ve worked with a couple of people that are incredibly chauvinistic.”
The Carlow native explained: “You could be on a film set every single day and know the story inside and out and you’re going to ask to a question about the next camera set-up with the director, and the cinematographer will be talking over you, and won’t stop talking. And I’d be: sorry, can you just? I was just in the middle of?’”
“It has only happened a handful of times but it does happen, and it is a bit mind-blowing when it does.”
“Generally, everyone is wonderful but every now and again you do get a bit of that, and it’s times like that where I go ‘I know this doesn’t happen for the boys on set’”.
