Saoirse Ronan has been praised for her sizzling chemistry with on-screen love interest Domhnall Gleeson.
The Oscar nominee will been alongside the Star Wars actor in new film Brooklyn, which will be released next year.
And Irish author Colm Toibin – who wrote the book the film is based on – said it was fantastic to see how she brought the role alive.
He said: “It’s very, very emotional. It’s the first time I suppose she’s doing a part as a lead actress as an adult on her own and she’s absolutely extraordinary.”
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It sees Saoirse playing a young woman named Eilis – who moves from an Irish rural town to Brooklyn, in New York, to follow her dreams.
After arriving in America, Eilis is immediately homesick – but soon sees her life changing for the better after falling in love with an Italian plumber, played by Emory Cohen.
But Saoirse then has to decide whether she should return to Ireland to be with Domhnall Gleeson.
And Colm told Newstalk: “I thought, maybe this is for people who remember emigration.
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“But all the young people who came from the publishers and agency in London, they were all in tears of the choice she had to make.
“Was she going to stay in Ireland or was she going to go back to Brooklyn and the guy, the American actor Emory Cohen plays it as pure charm. He’ll do anything to win her.
“Domhnall Gleeson in Ireland plays it the other way around [to love rival Cohen].
“He is just so sincere, so honest, so decent that he would mean pure stability and he sort of needs her and she can see that every word he says is true.
“So they’re playing the opposite ways against each other and she has to decide which way to go.”
