Saoirse Ronan says she was often pitted against other actresses in Hollywood when she was a rising star.

“For a while it was me and Dakota Fanning», the four-time Oscar nominee, 30 years old, said SHE for the magazine’s Women in Hollywood issue.

“And I would love it if Dakota and I worked together. “That’s one of the reasons I got into acting, because when I was really young, she was working from a very young age and I would watch her stuff,” the Irish actress continued.

Ronan was 13 when she broke out in the 2007 film Atonementfor which she received her first Academy Award nomination. The perfect couple Star Fanning, who is also 30, began her career as a child actress and starred in films like 2003’s The One. Downtown Girls with Brittany Murphy and 2005 War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise.

“To feel like there’s room for all of us now, where there’s still healthy competition, I think it’s great,” Ronan continued.

Ronan is generating even more Oscar buzz for his two new films: Blitz And Overtaking.

The drama of the Second World War Blitzfrom director Steve McQueen, features Ronan as a single mother in London who is separated from her son George (Elliott Heffernan) when she sends him to safety in the countryside as the Germans attack.

In Overtaking — which she made with her husband, Slow horses star Jack Lowden34 years old – she plays a recovering alcoholic who returns home to the small Scottish farm where she grew up after living on the edge of London.

THE Little women the star said SHE she was excited to play someone who isn’t “likeable.”

“Because I was able to shape it creatively, I cared less about whether things were acceptable. I really responded to Lena Dunham’s characters in Girlswho are sometimes assholes, but we all have the capacity for that,” she said.

“I just started watching Tips“- the HBO comedy with Jean Smart as a brutal comedian and Hannah Einbinder like its author of intriguing jokes – “and I say to myself: “These girls are selfish”. They get involved themselves. They have huge egos, but they still have redeeming qualities,” she continued.

“We have gotten into the habit of filtering our personalities so much, reducing them to a line on Instagram or Twitter. And having the opportunity to say, “Look, this person can be fully formed and have shitty qualities and also redeeming qualities, and let’s honor all of that” — I’m at the point in my life where I’m like, “C ‘is what I want to see on screen,’” Ronan said.

She, Fanning’s younger sister, 26, is also an actress. Dakota said E! News in May, they “were never competitive growing up” when it came to applying for roles.

“We also have very different personalities, so I think that helps as well. We like different things,” added Fanning, who earned her first Emmy nomination for the series this year. Ripley.