Add farm animal birthing aid to the list of Saoirse Ronan’s acting resume.
In the “Ladybird” and “Little Women” star’s Sundance 2024 entry “The Outrun,” based on Amy Liptrot’s memoir, she embodies a character based on Liptrot named Rona, who returns to her native Orkney Islands to cope with her past and try to overcome her drug and alcohol addiction. In one scene, Ronan as Rona fully helps a sheep give birth. She detailed the training for the experience in an interview at TheWrap’s Sundance Portrait and Interview Studio presented by NFP.
“I had been in Australia shooting another film and I came back, had a couple of days at home, and then flew up to Orkney because the lambing season starts at a slightly different time to mainland Scotland,” she said.