Movies Verse | Joshua on Instagram: "Saoirse Ronan and Greta Gerwig first met each other at the Toronto Film Festival in 2015 when Ronan was promoting Brooklyn (2015) and Gerwig was promoting Maggie's Plan (2015). Ronan had already read Gerwig's script and instantly connected with the title character. When both of them discussed the script at length in Ronan's hotel room, and she read the essential part aloud, Gerwig knew she had found her "Lady Bird.""