Death Defying Acts

Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan

released: 2007 Sep 13   duration: 1:36:55

When famous escape artist Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) arrives in Edinburgh and offers a $10,000 reward to anyone who can contact his mother from beyond the grave, a beautiful but deceptive psychic (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her young "sidekick" daughter (Saoirse Ronan) take the challenge. As Houdini spends time with this mysterious woman, he is beguiled by her charms, and what begins as a con evolves into a far more complicated and dangerous affair.

At 1:25:29, Saoirse Ronan juggles 2 balls, on and off, for nearly 30 seconds.

On November 5, 2015, AOL news reported the following:

Ronan is fazed by one thing: her inability to juggle. Ronan doesn't measure up, even after her turn in 2007's "Death Defying Acts."

"I can't juggle to save my life. And that's sharing a lot about myself. That's a big part of myself that I swore I would never share. Years ago I did a film about Harry Houdini and I played this little Scottish girl from Edinburgh," she says. "We were these con artists. I had to juggle in a scene. I just could not. I still can't do it."


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