Sit-down Sunday: The star with the unpronounceable name: Saoirse Ronan

Over tea and cake, she joked to me about how hardly anybody in LA could say her name, which means freedom in the Irish language. “They have the biggest problem in the world pronouncing my name."

Saoirse Ronan was only eight-years-old when she suffered her first (and only) rejection. She auditioned for a role in The Actors, a crime-comedy starring Michael Caine and the Dublin-born thespian Michael Gambon, which was shot in Dublin and released in 2003.

“She really impressed the casting directors, but she was deemed too young and didn’t get the par…