Saoirse Ronan Says Her Next Film ‘Bad Apples’ Is Coming Next Year: “It’s a Sort of Dark Scandi-Brit Comedy”

Bad Apples is an upcoming comedy thriller film directed by Jonathan Etzler in his English-language debut and written by Jess O’Kane, based on Rasmus Andersson’s debut novel De Oönskade. It stars Saoirse Ronan and Jacob Anderson.

The movie follows Maria, a primary school teacher doing her best to inspire a class of 10-year-olds, but is stifled by one unruly and chaotic student. With her career in question and the child’s behavior spiraling, she makes a series of bad decisions that lead to her accidentally taking and locking this “bad apple” in her home.

Maria tries desperately to backtrack, but when the class starts flourishing,g and the staff and parents are thrilled with the improvement, she finds herself in a very complicated predicament.

Ronan had her breakthrough role as a precocious teenager in Atonement (2007), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her career progressed with starring roles as a murdered girl seeking closure in The Lovely Bones (2009) and a teenage assassin in Hanna (2011), and the supporting role of a baker in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).

Ronan received critical acclaim and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a homesick Irish immigrant in 1950s New York in Brooklyn (2015), the eponymous high school senior in Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird (2017), and Jo March in Gerwig’s Little Women (2019). She also won a Golden Globe Award for Lady Bird.

Now, Saoirse Ronan is ready for her next film as she opened up about her return to the big stage in the upcoming dark-comedy Bad Apples.

Do you know what you’re filming later this year or next year? Are you going back to the stage? What’s coming up for you

RONAN: I can’t film anything this year. I’ve got too much to do with promoting these two films. So I won’t be filming anything. I have a film called Bad Apples that will come out next year, which is a sort of dark Scandi-Brit comedy. I don’t know what I’m doing next. I have a few things in development, but nothing solid to start next year.

I actually wanted to talk about Bad Apples just for a second. I read the synopsis, and it’s pretty crazy. Could you talk about what it’s about?

RONAN: It’s essentially about this teacher who’s overworked and incredibly stressed, and it’s all because of this one pupil in her class who is kind of classed as a “bad apple.” He makes her life and all the pupils’ lives a living hell. Through a series of unfortunate events, he ends up in her basement. She keeps him in there, and it’s about the aftermath of that.

The ripple effect of him being removed from the system, as it were. So, it’s a real commentary on corruption, I think, the education system and abuse of power, really. But it’s also hilarious. I saw it the other day, and it’s excellent, so I’m excited about that one.

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