Sinead O'Connor was 'in talks for huge star' to play her in movie before tragic death
ok.co.ukFollowing the phenomenal success of Elvis, Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman, the late Irish superstar Sinead O'Connor was planning her very own big-screen biopic based on the 2021 memoir Rememberings.
Almost a week on from the Nothing Compares 2 U singer's funeral, which unfolded in County Wicklow, The Sun now reports that Indecent Proposal's Demi Moore, Raised by Wolves actress Niamh Algar and The Grand Budapest Hotel's Saoirse Ronan had all been attached to play Sinead - 56 years old at the time of her passing - across different periods of her life. "Sinéad was keen to explore making her memoir into her film and she had a raft of ideas about how it would look on screen," revealed a source. "She had a huge amount of respect for Demi and thought Niamh was a real rising star after she saw her in her TV series The Virtues.
Sinéad, too, thought Saoirse was fierce and loved her from her film Brooklyn in 2015 when she played an Irish migrant. "Her early ideas for the film saw her leaning towards a triptych-style film, featuring three different actresses which would fit with a satirical reference to the Catholic Church’s father, son and Holy Ghost.
It was clear Sinead had given real thought to the biopic and seemed keen to get involved in the script." OK! has reached out to the late musician's representatives for comment.
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