Actor Saoirse Ronan was fresh from the Emmys red carpet, where she made an appearance with Jack Lowden, who she recently married.
Ronan and Lowden met on the set of a movie in 2018 before wedding this summer so it feels natural that they would once again work together. Ronan co-produced The Outrun with Lowden and she said it was a “great experience” to work together.
“When you have a personal relationship with someone, and you’re also in the same field, and you respect one another, and you’ve got the same taste, and you expect the best from yourself, to have that other person there believing in you but also pushing you is great,” she said.
“He was my eyes and ears, really, when he was on set. He was able to keep an eye on what I was doing because so much of it was improv. To have Jack there, to just go, ‘you’re going down the right path’ or ‘don’t do that’ was great because I just completely trust him.”
Bundee Aki on being Irish
Rugby star Bundee Aki opened up about recently becoming an Irish citizen. The Irish rugby payer, who moved to Galway in 2014 to play for Connacht, became an Irish citizen this week and said it was an easy decision after how much he and his family were welcomed here.
“The way they’ve treated me and my family, obviously in Galway but around the country too, how lovely people are, how welcoming they are with me and my kids,” he explained.
“You can honestly feel how proud they are, and I feel the love they’ve given me and for me to be able to get granted the citizenship was no better feeling than to be able to get that chance to be able to say, I can now embrace the Irish culture.”
Rylan on the Spice Girls
Presenter Rylan Clarrke joined Patrick Kielty to discuss his new Paramount+ series Dating Naked UK. He spoke about iit varied career and revealed he was fired from. hairdressing role when he asked Spice Girl Geri Halliwell for her autograph.
“I started out as a colour therapist when I was 16, 17 and I was a massive Spice Girls fan,” he said. “Geri was my favourite. I always played Ginger Spice in the playground.
“On one of my first ever jobs as a trainee, Geri walks in and I was like ‘I can’t breathe’ and she was having her hair done. I brought her a coffee and said ‘I’m so sorry, can I have your autograph?’ and she was like, ’absolutely’. Loveliest woman ever.
“She signed her autograph and left, didn’t complain or anything, but my manager was an arsehole and he sacked me on the spot, saying you never ask a client for their autograph.
“Anyway, he sacked me and fast forward to now and Geri is one of my good friends and I have sleepovers at her house so fuck you.”
Snow Patrol on how ‘Run’ saved their lives
Snow Patrol are back with a new album, The Forest is The Path, and the Northern Ireland band revealed their hit song Run saved their lives.
“Before we wrote Run, we were playing to 20 people a night and dreaming of a life in music, working in bars and working in a call centre for a day and a half,” said lead singer Gary Lightbody.
“We didn’t think it was going to happen for us and it took ten years for us to be an overnight success. Then we wrote Run and everything changed. It’s the song that changed our lives forever.”