Saoirse Ronan reads messages from ordinary people who overcame extraordinary odds. Academy Award Winner Steve McQueen's new film Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan, is now playing in select theaters and streaming November 22 on Apple TV+ https://apple.co/_Blitz
Sir Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.
Written and directed by Academy and BAFTA Award-winning McQueen, the film stars Academy and BAFTA Award nominee Ronan and newcomer Heffernan, with Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clementine, Kathy Burke, Paul Weller, Stephen Graham, Leigh Gill, Mica Ricketts, CJ Beckford, Alex Jennings, Joshua McGuire, Hayley Squires, Erin Kellyman and Sally Messham rounding out the cast. McQueen’s Lammas Park produces alongside Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films, Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan and Michael Schaefer for New Regency, with producers Anita Overland and Adam Somner.
McQueen reunites with production designer Adam Stockhausen (“12 Years a Slave,” “Widows”), costume designer Jacqueline Durran (“Small Axe”), and composer Hans Zimmer (“12 Years a Slave”), with cinematographer Yorick Le Saux (“Little Women”) and makeup designer Naomi Donne ( “Spectre,” “Skyfall”).
Sir Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.
Written and directed by Academy and BAFTA Award-winning McQueen, the film stars Academy and BAFTA Award nominee Ronan and newcomer Heffernan, with Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clementine, Kathy Burke, Paul Weller, Stephen Graham, Leigh Gill, Mica Ricketts, CJ Beckford, Alex Jennings, Joshua McGuire, Hayley Squires, Erin Kellyman and Sally Messham rounding out the cast. McQueen’s Lammas Park produces alongside Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films, Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan and Michael Schaefer for New Regency, with producers Anita Overland and Adam Somner.
McQueen reunites with production designer Adam Stockhausen (“12 Years a Slave,” “Widows”), costume designer Jacqueline Durran (“Small Axe”), and composer Hans Zimmer (“12 Years a Slave”), with cinematographer Yorick Le Saux (“Little Women”) and makeup designer Naomi Donne ( “Spectre,” “Skyfall”).
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00:00Hi, I'm Saoirse Ronan and I play Rita in Blitz.
00:04Today I'm reading real letters from ordinary people who experienced the Blitz during World War II.
00:11These are the days to be alive in, written by Carol Brann.
00:15These are the days to be alive in.
00:18These days, now.
00:20They are hard, unhappy, lonely, wasted, infuriating, terrifying, heartbreaking days.
00:30But they are history.
00:32And in them we are a part of history.
00:35We are lucky to be living now.
00:38Saved by the Bus, written by Joan Varley.
00:42I remember I was travelling on a bus late at night.
00:45We were driving down the street when we heard bombs coming down.
00:49And we knew that they were just a bit ahead of us.
00:52We were driving towards the bombs, not knowing if the driver was going to be able to avoid them.
00:58The man at the front of the bus walked down, sat next to me and held my hand.
01:05Neither of us spoke a word.
01:07And once we were through the bomb area and were back onto the route,
01:12he silently moved back to the front seat.
01:15A moment I'll never forget.
01:17Midnight Meals, written by Frances Goddard.
01:20This one's quite funny.
01:22Everybody had their crafty ways of getting extra black market food.
01:26It was the only way you could survive.
01:28My wife was working in a really good restaurant.
01:31Salmon, pheasants, turkeys, steaks, roasts.
01:35And she brought it all back in her knickers.
01:38She'd come home and wake me up.
01:41And she'd empty her purse out and pour out the tips.
01:45And out would come a piece of tissue paper.
01:48She'd undo it and there'd be two nice pieces of cold cooked steak.
01:53Which is so amazing.
01:54And I feel like that's exactly what I would do.