Irish star Saoirse Ronan ‘dating’ Mary Queen of Scots co-star Jack Lowden
The pair play lovers her new film, Mary Queen of Scots, with Saoirse in the title role, and the Scottish actor as Lord Darnley
SAOIRSE Ronan has seen her on-screen love life spill over into reality, as she is reportedly dating Jack Lowden.
The pair play lovers her new film, Mary Queen of Scots, with Saoirse in the title role, and the Scottish actor as Lord Darnley.
She was previously linked to Jack’s brother, Calum, who is a ballet dancer.
But now it has been reported it was actually the Dunkirk star who she has been in a relationship with after they were spotted cosying up at the after-party in Tavern on the Green in New York on Tuesday.
A source told Page Six that even their fellow co-stars had no idea they were together until that night.
“We don’t know when they got together, we only found out on Tuesday night when they rolled up together - but they seem very happy and sweet.
“Jack was following her all over. He even followed her to the bathroom and was waiting outside for her. They were very close.”
Before they started working together, Jack said: “She’s lovely. I can’t wait for that it’s going to be fun.”
He has even met her mother Monica, who was also at the party.
The film is being released in the US before it opens in Ireland next year.
It stars Margot Robbie as Queen Elizabeth I and the cousins clash after Mary makes a bid for the crown.
But Saoirse dismissed any idea that there was “drama” between the two leading ladies.
“Men say that it can be too much drama to have actresses working together. That’s bollocks! I’m doing “Little Women” with Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen, and we love being together. And the way we are, it’s not the perception people have of a girl: We’re filthy, not prim and proper.”
The 24-year-old is now the toast of Hollywood after her third Oscar nomination earlier this year for Lady Bird.
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But she said there was a time when she was being offered the same thing over and over again.
“I definitely felt that when I was in my teens, because there was nothing like “Lady Bird” around where the movie was just about a girl’s experience. I got to play that as a kid, and I didn’t see why that had to change when I was in my teens, because those years were even more turbulent and interesting. The fact that nobody seemed to want to document that was confusing to me.”
And she told the New York Times one piece of advice stuck out: “The best piece of advice I got on this was from John Crowley, who directed “Brooklyn.” He said, “Don’t ever do something because you should do it, only do it because you want to do it.”