Susan Sarandon, Christian Ashdale, Peter Jackson, and Saoirse Ronan at The Lovely Bones premiere in New York City, on December 3, 2009. Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com. “I didn’t even recognize you!” Susan Sarandon said to an Alexander Wang-clad Saoirse Ronan last night before the lights dimmed at the New York City premiere of the film The Lovely Bones. In the movie, which is based on Alice Sebold’s 2002 novel of the same name, Ronan, 15, plays Susie Salmon, who is murdered in 1974 and watches from heaven as her family tries to track down her killer. Sarandon plays Susie’s booze-bag grandma who helps the Salmon family cope with the tragedy. “It’s great as a young actress to get to be in the company of such great actors who have been around for a very long time and who are extremely comfortable on set,” Ronan said of her Oscar-winning co-stars Sarandon and Rachel Weisz, along with Oscar-nominated Mark Wahlberg and two-time Golden Globe winner Stanley Tucci. Ronan herself was nominated for an Oscar for her spooky portrayal Briony Tallis in the 2008 drama Atonement. “I would do something like a comedy,” Ronan said yesterday evening. “The first movie I did was a romantic comedy, so I would like to go back to that. I’m always joking and trying to be funny.”

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