Lady Bird
Fly away home.
Country
Production
Budget
$10 000 000
Box office
$78 965 611
Website
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Evelyn O'Neill, Lila Yacoub
Camera operator
Sam Levy
Composer
Artist
Chris Jones, Courtney Fain
Audition
Allison Jones, Jordan Thaler, Heidi Griffiths
Editing
Short description
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.
What's left behind the scenes
- Producer Scott Rudin, after receiving the script from Greta Gerwig, discussed it with Eli Bush for eleven hours, after which he gave Gerwig the green light to film.
- The events of the film take place in 2002-2003. During this time, the film's director, Greta Gerwig, graduated from the Catholic School of Saint Francis in her hometown of Sacramento (California, USA).
- Saoirse Ronan and Greta Gerwig first met in 2015 at the Toronto International Film Festival. Ronan had read Gerwig's script before this meeting and decided to play the lead role. They discussed the script in a hotel room, and Ronan acted out the main character by reading the text. It was then that Gerwig realized she had found the perfect Lady Bird.
- The first draft of the script was 350 pages long. That's roughly a six-hour film.
- In the film, Lady Bird applies to Columbia University and later learns she was not accepted. Timothée Chalamet, who played Kyle in the film, attended the university in real life, but left to focus on acting training.
- Although the film doesn't explicitly state which New York college Lady Bird was accepted to, the colors of the application package (white with blue) and the location (Upper Manhattan) suggest it was Barnard College. This institution was also attended by the film's director and screenwriter, Greta Gerwig.
- The working title of the film was 'Mothers and Daughters'.
- The song 'As We Go Along' by The Monkees can be heard in the film.
- This is the second film in which Saoirse Ronan has played a character who insists on being called a different name than the one given at birth (Lady Bird instead of Christine). Previously, this was in the film 'By the Way, Meet Vera' (2013), where she asked to be called Daisy instead of Elizabeth.
- Saoirse Ronan used her personal memories of watching the TV series "Saved by the Bell" (1989–1992) as a teenager when filming her scenes in the American high school setting.
- Lady Bird is known in American pop culture as a nickname for Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson, wife of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon Johnson. This film has no relation to Johnson himself or his wife. However, it happened that the film was released in American theaters at the same time as the biopic about Lyndon Johnson, "LBJ," directed by Rob Reiner.
- After receiving the script from Greta Gerwig, producer Scott Rudin spent eleven hours discussing it with Eli Bush, after which he gave Gerwig the green light to film the movie.
- This is already the second film in which Saoirse Ronan has played a character who insists on being called by a name other than the one given at birth (Lady Bird instead of Christine). Previously, this occurred in the film 'How I Live Now' (2013), where she asked to be called Daisy instead of Elizabeth.
- While filming her scenes in an American high school, Saoirse Ronan drew upon her own memories of watching the series 'Saved by the Bell' (1989–1992) as a teenager.
- The events of the film take place in 2002–2003. At that time, the film's director, Greta Gerwig, was graduating from St. Francis Catholic High School in her hometown of Sacramento, California.
- In American pop culture, Lady Bird is known as the nickname of Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson, the wife of the 36th US President, Lyndon Johnson. This film has no connection to Johnson himself or his wife. However, it so happened that the film was released in American theaters at the same time as Rob Reiner's biopic about Lyndon Johnson, 'LBJ'.
- Saoirse Ronan and Greta Gerwig first met in 2015 at the Toronto International Film Festival. Even before this meeting, Ronan had read Gerwig's script and decided she wanted to play the lead role. They discussed the screenplay in a hotel room, where Ronan performed the character by reading the text. It was then that Gerwig realized she had found the perfect Lady Bird.
- In the film, Lady Bird applies to Columbia University, only to later find out that she was not accepted. Timothée Chalamet, who played Kyle in the movie, actually attended this university in real life, but dropped out to focus on his acting studies.
- Although the film does not explicitly state which New York college Lady Bird got into, the colors of the application folder (white and blue) and the location (Upper Manhattan) suggest it is Barnard College. The film's director and screenwriter, Greta Gerwig, is a graduate of this institution.
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