Saoirse Ronan Says Her ‘Little Women’ Character Might Be Queer
December 22, 2019In a recent interview Saoirse Ronan said that her Little women character Jo March could identify as queer, ‘Gay Times’ report.
Her interviewer asked her whether, if the story took place in a modern-day setting, the character could identify as LGBT+.
“This the first time in any adaption of the book that [her sexuality has] even in some way been addressed,” Saoirse explained.
“It wasn’t something that I was aware of in Louisa [May Alcott, the author of the book] until we started to do research for the movie and Laura [Dern, who plays Marmee March] in particular did so much research on like the letter she had written to her mother and diary entries and things like that.”
Referencing back to the character, she says: “That moment when she’s in the attic and she says, ‘I want to be able to love freely.’ That actually comes from Louisa’s words.
“And what I did really love about her is that she didn’t sort of put a lid on it. It was something that she was willing to acknowledge and I think she was self-aware enough to know that like there was something different about her.
“And something that made her sort of different from even her other sisters. And I think if she had had the language or even a term that she could use to go ‘oh maybe this is how I feel’ or ‘this is what I am and that’s okay and there’s a safe space for this.’
“And I could see her definitely experimenting with her sexuality for sure.”
Little Women is scheduled for release in the UK on 26 December 2019.
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