Saoirse Ronan had challenges filming tough movie The Outrun: Its personal to me

Drugs involve friends, partners, dad’s disorders, mother’s prayers in Michael Barker and Tom Bernard’s Sony Pictures Classics’ “The Outrun.”Saoirse Ronan, playing an alcoholic, brings hospitals, addiction, sobriety onto Scotland’s small far-off Orkney islands.Retreating from London into cold, bleak, bracing, heavy gales that setting begets healing.First-time producer Saoirse, who’s had four Oscar noms, wanted in on this best seller.

“Huge challenge.We shot in July.

Lambing season.Suddenly I’m birthing baby lambs.

A choreographer worked when I’m playing drunk, sober, nervous, on how to stage this character.“In Papay, our last location, desperate for peace, healing and recovery, we spent a whole day in the ocean with the seals.“In one scene you see an animal giving birth and I’m singing to the sea.A Celtic tradition.

But I haven’t eaten a lobster since.“Tough movie.But I was right for it.

There was improvisation and lots of my own things.A combination of what I know went into it.

It’s personal to me.I even went to a farm to see lambing.

Lots of blood.Watching the sheep going into labor, pulling the baby out, I was terrified.

Scared.Later that same lamb then chased me to the ground.”Must’ve had help chasing her because at the Cinema Society screening she was inside a floor-length evening gown.November brings Tripp Whetsell’s Applause Books bio of Norman Lear.It says Carroll O’Connor (Archie Bunker in “All in the Family”) argued with creator and producer Lear throughout the CBS show’s eight-year run.

Even rewrote its pilot in pencil.And in NBC’s “Sanford and Son” egomaniacal Redd Foxx caused chaos and wore a gold coke spoon around his neck.Journalist/p.r.rep Jesse Nash is shopping Whetsell’s tome “Norman Lear: His Life & Times” for a miniseries or biopic. Agreed New York City is slithering down the toilet:However, Ellen’s Stardust Diner, facing the Winter Garden Theatre, delivers millions...