Saoirse Ronan On Ryan Gosling’s Firing From The Lovely Bones

“Ryan came to us two or three times and said, ‘I’m not the right person for this role. I’m too young.’ And we said, ‘No, no, no. We can age you up. We can thin your hair.’ We were very keen,” she recalled at the time. 

“It wasn’t until we were in pre-production and we had the cast there that it became increasingly clear: He was so uncomfortable moving forward, and we began to feel he was not right,” she added, taking ownership of the casting issue. “It was our blindness, the desire to make it work no matter what.”