For his film debut in "Blitz," Elliott Heffernan had a tall order. He had to perform in perilous scenes that found his ...

This will no doubt be the first of many amazing roles,' says director Steve McQueen of the actor making his film debut in the ...

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

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

Ultimately, that there is a war on in “Blitz” may not be its defining feature. The London under siege in McQueen’s film is as ...

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

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 ...

In Steve McQueen’s moving World War II drama “Blitz,” Saoirse Ronan puts an entire life into a song. -- Moira Macdonald, ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Steve McQueen, right, writer/director of “Blitz,” poses with cast ...

“Blitz”: Award-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen goes old school, in a way, with his breathtakingly filmed World War II ...

“I didn't know if he existed and then I discovered Elliott.” Courtesy APPLE TV+ McQueen knew that Heffernan, a fellow Brit, had never acted before and that he would have to carry much of ...

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 ...