Notably, Saoirse Ronan was a frontrunner to play Yelena Belova, a far grittier and more action-oriented role than her usual fare, before her Little Women co-star Florence Pugh was cast.

Saoirse Ronan has had a diverse career this far, but now she has revealed that she wants to work on a musical! She also shared that she has been loving the Wicked film adaptation.

“Blitz,” loosely gripping, doesn’t tap into our collective idea of what a war film is so much as it does the youthful, perilous journeys through 19th century Britain of Charles Dickens.