Hollywood actor Saoirse Ronan has told how she's tired of being labelled "an activist" despite championing movements like #metoo.
The Carlow star has recently been making the headlines because of her strong comments and actions.
The 26-year old Golden Globe winner has raised her voice on many issues, and is passionate about her ambassador role for the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
The Little Women actress opened up about being considered as an activist during a virtual master class at the Toronto International Film Festival.
She said: "I don't consider myself an activist. It would be unfair to say that, given the very small amount of work I've done with people who really dedicate their lives to it".
Saoirse was in Toronto to promote her latest movie, Ammonite, a period romance where she plays Kate Winslet’s lover.
During the same chat, Saoirse Ronan said that being a mouthpiece for the people that actually know what they're talking about is really how she has always felt about it.
She said that she has met a lot of people that support incredible causes and are unbelievably passionate about it.
The actor revealed that she knows many people who are incredibly hardworking in terms of getting the message out there and she’s kind of like everyone else in saying, “oh, what do you need me to do to spread that message out there?”.
Saoirse opened up on playing troubled Briony in Atonement aged 13, versus her performance as a 20-year old in Brooklyn.
She said: "I was absolutely a wreck, the difference between the way I was as myself and as an actor on Brooklyn, versus the way I was on Atonement.
"I was 20, so the hormones were hanging all over the place anyways. It's an intense time for anyone because it's usually when they move away and get a job or go to college or whatever."
Then she tackled Brooklyn in the middle of transitioning from being a teenager to becoming a young woman in the celebrity spotlight, in her native home town.
She recalled: "I went back not even to Dublin, but where I grew up and I hadn't been there in years, and that represented an important, yet an older path in my life, that I will always remain connected to, but I was moving past that by now."
The need to get Brooklyn right had the star filled with terror and worry.
She revealed: "I had never been aware of the camera in a negative way or had it paralyze me.
“But I was feeling that a bit on Brooklyn, in terms of what am I doing with my face.”
But the worry paid off as her performance in Brooklyn sealed her career in Hollywood as an A-list contender.
She added: "It ended up being such a special film for me to do. That film gets to me in a way that nothing else I've done has."
