SIMON: May I ask you - your performance in "Lady Bird" - I must say, my favorite film last year - was widely praised. You know, for me, because she was a musician and she had such a passion for that, that was where her fire came from.
And it was really just about me searching for that and finding it. Obviously, that was in the book, and that was in the script anyway. RONAN: I think, you know, with a character like that, a person who comes from that sort of class system in that time, you really want to make sure, even though they're quite reserved, that she's got a fire to her. SIMON: Saoirse Ronan, what did you want to put into Florence? MCEWAN: I would've made a much better Florence than you. RONAN: That was actually a running joke when we were rehearsing - that Ian secretly wanted to be Florence. RONAN: Could've been an extra in it if you wanted to. MCEWAN: So my visits were sort of more courtesy visits than anything else. There's nothing to do but eat bacon sandwiches all day. MCEWAN: I mean, when things are going well, Scott, there's not much place for a writer on set. RONAN: Ian and Dom and Billy and myself rehearsed for about a week before we started to shoot, which was very exciting for me because Ian and I had met 10 years prior during "Atonement." So it was great this time to actually - to feel like you're really sort of collaborating with the person who's created all of this for you, you know? So yeah, you came and visited set quite a bit, didn't you? SIMON: Saoirse Ronan, was the author on set? And you've got to find a way of getting the inner feelings of characters onto the screen, and I'm very lucky to have Saoirse and Billy in there.
So finding a language for them was an interesting challenge.Īnd then because time had passed, there was an opportunity to have some rethinks on one or two things - some scenes I wrote for the movie that I might have included in the novel had I thought of them at the time. It's very - written very much from inside their heads, the first half of the novella. There's no dialogue in the novel between these two characters. And actually, it was a fascinating process - lots of challenges. MCEWAN: It would be much more painful if I let someone else do it, I think, especially with this. SIMON: Ian, is it painful to render your own novel into a screenplay? Saoirse Ronan and Ian McEwan joined us from London. It stars Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle as Florence and Edward, a just-married young couple who spend what turns out to be their only marital night - actually, not even a night - in a hotel along the beach in Dorset, where the young lovers fundamentally and irreparably misunderstand each other with everlasting consequences. It's the first film directed by Dominic Cooke. Ian McEwan has done the screenplay based on his acclaimed 2007 novel. You might wonder, in this day and age, how interesting a film can that be? Very. "On Chesil Beach" is the story of an unconsummated love and marriage.
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