Saoirse Ronan has praised the way Derry Girls deals "so brilliantly with humour" with The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
The Mary Queen of Scots star spoke about how she fears Brexit will have a negative impact on the Irish border.
"I was watching RTÉ News and they were talking about the border – and it’s such a feckin' mess," Ronan told Harper's Bazaar.
"One of my best friends, Eileen [O’Higgins, the actress, who she met on the set of the film Brooklyn], is from Down, in Northern Ireland; even I didn’t fully appreciate what the reality of it was."
She continued, "Derry Girls handles the situation so brilliantly with humour; you have the girls going, 'Och, there’s a bomb on the bridge and I can’t get my nails done now!' And I asked Eileen if that’s what it was really like – soldiers coming on the bus? She said, 'Yes, yes it was.'
"And I think no matter what side you’re on in the North, nobody wants to go back to that."
Ronan is currently on the cover of Harper's Bazaar, and the text featured along the bottom of her image has been causing some issues on Twitter.
It reads, "The Spirit of Great Britian."
Ronan's interview is advertised separately to this on the magazine cover, but Twitter users are noting the use of an actress born in America, raised in Ireland, and portraying Mary Queen of Scots on screen, to accompany the magazine issue's theme.
Saoirse Ronan features on Harper’s Bazaar ‘Spirit of Great Britain’ cover. I FUME! (I don’t really fume) https://t.co/fzndqw4W09
— 🥃Donald Clarke📽 (@DonaldClarke63) January 3, 2019
"The spirit of Great Britain"
— Richard Chambers (@newschambers) January 3, 2019
Oh no. Oh no... pic.twitter.com/RcIq3DzTPi
So Harper’s Bazaar have the wonderful Saoirse Ronan on their cover, with the headline "The spirit of Great Britain" to accompany it. Nothing factually wrong. But certainly not the best idea. Just going to put this under ‘things that were not meant in 2019, but did anyway’..... pic.twitter.com/h6JQQJXZP6
— Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@OxfordDiplomat) January 3, 2019
