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Saoirse Ronan Says She Was Often Pitted Against Dakota Fanning for Roles: 'There's Space for All of Us Now'

Saoirse Ronan says she was often pitted against actresses like Dakota Fanning when she was coming up in Hollywood. 'There's space for all of us now,' the four-time Oscar nominee added.

The World War II drama Blitz, from director Steve McQueen, features Ronan as a single mother in London who is separated from her son George (Elliott Heffernan) when she sends him away to safety in the countryside as the Germans attack. In The Outrun — which she produced with her husband, Slow Horses star Jack Lowden, 34 — she plays a recovering alcoholic who returns home to her small Scotland farm where she grew up after living life on the edge in London. “I just started watching Hacks ” — the HBO comedy starring Jean Smart as a blunt comedian and Hannah Einbinder as her scheming joke writer — “and I’m like, ‘These girls are selfish.

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