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The Outrun: Saoirse Ronan on learning lambing for new film

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Saoirse Ronan stars in The Outrun as Rona , the main character in the film.

Based on Amy Liptrot’s award winning memoir, it's about a young woman returning to her home in Orkney .

She had to learn a new skill - lambing - so learned to do it off-camera.

'I don't think you can fake that'.

"So every time we would go out on a boat, or film the seals and I would sing to them, everyone would get involved. "We’d all wild swim together, we all lived together. It was an incredibly immersive experience.”.