Saoirse Ronan feels “so lucky” to have an ongoing collaboration with writer/director Greta Gerwig.

The Irish actress first worked with the Barbie filmmaker on her solo feature directorial debut, Lady Bird, in 2017 and they teamed up again for Gerwig’s second film, 2019’s Little Women.

Ronan, who received Oscar nominations for both films, reflected on her “one-in-a-million” partnership with Gerwig in a cover interview with British Vogue.

“We still say that whatever we’ve found is so precious,” she said. “I don’t know why it is that it works, but it just does. That is like a one-in-a-million experience, to find that with someone who works in your world. We feel so, so lucky that we found that with one another.”

Gerwig told the publication that she and Ronan are so in sync it often feels like they’re “sharing one brain”.

Citing an example, she wrote via email, “With Little Women, I remember I wrote a line that I heard her say in my head. I had a complete, imagined experience of the performance. Then a year later we were on set and doing the scene, and about four takes in she did the line just as I had dreamt it, without me ever explaining it to her.”

Ronan wanted to continue their working relationship with Gerwig’s smash hit movie Barbie last year, but she couldn’t play a Weird Barbie because she was filming her new drama The Outrun. However, she has expressed her desire to appear in Gerwig’s upcoming film adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia book series.

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