Saoirse Ronan Shares Her Take to Ryan Gosling's Lovely Bones Firing

As Saoirse—who was 14 astatine the time—explained, casting shakeups aren't uncommon successful the movie business, and the determination wasn't a flimsy connected Ryan personally.

"It happens, bash you cognize what I mean?" she noted. "It's not personal, necessarily. It's conscionable sometimes you're not connected the aforesaid page."

And, ultimately, Mark—who shares kids Ella, 21, Michael, 18, Brendan, 16, and Grace, 14, with wife Rhea Durham—brought existent beingness acquisition to the relation of Saoirse's quality Susie's begetter that Ryan didn't person astatine the time. (The La La Land star is present dada to daughters Esmeralda Amada, 10, and Amada Lee, 8, with longtime partner Eva Mendes.) 

"It meant past that Mark was capable to measurement in, and helium was a father," Saoirse explained. "He was a begetter to 3 kids [at the time], and helium astir apt had an acquisition with that that Ryan felt similar helium didn't.

She added, "Ryan was similar 27. He was young."

Luckily for Saoirse, she got to enactment with Ryan 5 years aboriginal on Lost River, his 2014 directorial debut.

"It was large past to enactment with him later," she gushed. "He's conscionable the same. He doesn't change."

Ryan shared his broadside of the Lovely Bones casting ordeal successful 2010, a twelvemonth aft the movie was released, owing the change-up to a misinterpretation of the relation connected his part.

"We had a antithetic thought of however the quality should look," helium told The Hollywood Reporter. "I truly believed helium should beryllium 210 pounds."

"We didn’t speech precise overmuch during the preproduction process, which was the problem," Ryan went on. "It was a immense movie, and there’s truthful galore things to woody with, and helium couldn’t woody with the actors individually. I conscionable showed up connected set, and I had gotten it wrong."