However, the actress adds that she thought the reasons why the actor and director Peter Jackson parted ways on the 2009 film were "totally valid."

Saoirse Ronan recently appeared on the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast and remembered the dramatic casting switch that occurred during the making of Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones." The director originally cast Ryan Gosling as the father of Ronan's protagonist,

It's like sometimes you're just not on the same page." In 2009, a then-14-year-old Saoirse Ronan starred in Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones, based on Alice Sebold's 2002 novel of the same name. Mark Wahlberg played her father,

Saoirse Ronan is revealing her true feelings about Ryan Gosling’s firing from her 2009 thriller The Lovely Bones. Gosling was originally cast to play her dad in the film, but was let go the day filming was to start and replaced by Mark Wahlberg.

Fifteen years after the release of “The Lovely Bones,” Saoirse Ronan is reflecting on the movie casting that almost was. The four-time Academy Award nominee starred in the 2009 film adaptation of Alice Sebold’s supernatural novel as Susie Salmon,

Saoirse Ronan recently shared insights on the last-minute casting change in Peter Jackson's 'The Lovely Bones'. Originally cast as the father, Ryan Gosling was replaced by Mark Wahlberg days before shooting began due to creative differences over Gosling’s weight gain.