Saoirse Ronan was lined up to play a weird Barbie Entertainment

Saoirse Ronan was to play a “weird” doll in ‘Barbie’.

The 29-year-old actress was disappointed not to be working again with her ‘Lady Bird’ director Greta Gerwig on last summer’s blockbuster due to scheduling conflicts, and revealed that she had a particularly “weird” role to play in the film.

Speaking in the Variety studio at the Sundance Film Festival, she said: “I was definitely going to be a weird Barbie.

“I don’t know how to take it. If I was with Kate McKinnon, it would have been great. I had a scene but it never got done, and it wasn’t in the movie.

“It was weird. I think I’d be the weird girl who talked to herself and always had her pet dog with her and always talked to the dog and didn’t look at anybody.”

But Saoirse may get a chance to work with the director again as she was happy to hear that Greta is keen on a ‘Lady Bird’ follow-up.

She said: “It’s based on Greta so, does she make Barbie? I don’t know. We discussed when we were making the film that we’d love to revisit it,” she explained.

“I’ve heard she’s started talking about it. I’ll do anything with her as long as she stays with me.”

But next, the ‘Little Women’ star can be seen recovering an alcoholic Rona in ‘Outrun’ and she wasn’t afraid to get stuck in when it came to shooting in a sheep farm.

She said: “I delivered seven lambs. It was so terrifying. I didn’t know if I was going to kill the lambs or if I was pulling them out.

“When they come out there’s a lot of goo in their airwaves. So, you have to get hay and stick it up their nose so they can sneeze it. And you have to rub really aggressively to move the air through them. If you don’t, they will die…

“We did that for about three or four days. I don’t know how specific you want me to be, but you know which ewe will go into labor in the next hour. You have to identify the ewe. Maybe 40 in a pen and face it, Which is really hard.

“They’re really strong and don’t want to be held. I’ll put my foot on the knee and make sure he’s still and put my arm over him and pull his sheep out. I was totally prepared to do it, but I was really scared. I Grew up in the country, but not on a farm.”