“I didn't know if he existed and then I discovered Elliott.” Courtesy APPLE TV+ McQueen knew that Heffernan, a fellow ...

The World War II drama Blitz, from director Steve McQueen, features Ronan as a single mother in London who is separated from ...

McQueen, whose father died of prostate cancer in 2006, discovered that he developed a small tumor during one of his routine ...

Elliott Heffernan makes a stunning debut as the son of a factory worker played by Saoirse Ronan in director Steve McQueen’s ...

Saoirse Ronan and newcomer Elliott Heffernan dominate the film as a mother and son separated by war who must find their way back to each other as London is bomb ...

A title card for Steve McQueen’s harrowing and viscerally impactful historical war drama “Blitz” tells us that during the ...

Oscar-winning British screenwriter, producer and director Steve McQueen for “12 Years a Slave” (2013) has come up with a startling depiction of war-ravaged London during the blitzkrieg of 1940-41 as a ...

In the film, Ronan plays Rita, mother to George, played by 11-year-old Elliott Heffernan. Rita and George live with her ...

We meet 9-year-old George, played by Elliott Heffernan, in a cocoon of relative safety. He and his mother Rita, a munitions ...

Her character Rita, who works in a munitions factory, has just sent her 9-year-old son George (Elliott Heffernan) to the countryside for safety, away from the bombs falling on London; now she’s ...

The artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen has said he was inspired to write Blitz "after seeing a faded photograph of a black ...