Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan Meet Again—and Remember the “Magic” of ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Little Women’

What’s your favorite performance of the other person?

Chalamet: Am I allowed to have been in it? [Laughs] I could make it about Brooklyn because I love Brooklyn too. But there was something so magical in Little Women. She just tapped into something. It’s the scene in the attic that I’m not in; it’s with Laura Dern, where she just tapped into something extraordinary.

Ronan: I think it’s the same for me. I loved you in Call Me by Your Name as well, so much. But there is something very special, I think, about Jo and Laurie and Little Women. It’s magic.

Is there a specific movie genre that you haven’t yet explored but you would like to?

Ronan: A musical.

Chalamet: Oh man, you’ve got to do a musical. What musical would you do?

Ronan: Wicked. [Laughs] I can’t stop thinking about Wicked. Maybe an original. I would like to do a biopic of someone. I’m not going to say who it is. I don’t want someone else to steal it.

Chalamet: Is she alive?

Ronan: Yes.

Chalamet: Do they know you want to do it?

Ronan: No. I’m curious what you want to do?

Chalamet: I don’t know. I don’t think in genres. There’s great directors I want to work with.

Like who?

Chalamet: It’s probably still Paul Thomas Anderson. He’s the dream.

If your respective characters from Lady Bird were real, what do you think they would be doing now, in 2024?

Chalamet: Oh my God. I was reading about this recently. People that think an armageddon’s coming, they buy these properties—you can give a certain amount of money a year to be part of a program where, if a doomsday comes, you can knock on the door, and they’ll give you a bed for however long our armageddon is.

Ronan: What would Lady Bird be doing? I mean, she’s loosely based on Greta, so she’d be directing. She met Margot Robbie at an award show and made Barbie.

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