'Jessie Buckley is such a beautiful person': Alisha Weir on star encounters and her new film 

Irish actress Alisha Weir is just 16, but she has already clocked up quite a CV, writes Esther McCarthy. Her latest outing is charming animation The Land of Sometimes 

Irish actress Alisha Weir at the Critics Choice Awards recently in California. Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Alisha Weir has even more reason to be excited than the rest of us about Jessie Buckley's success at the Oscars. After all, Buckley played the teenager’s movie mammy in the 2023 drama Wicked Little Letters, and the two formed a close bond on set.

She is delighted with what the Kerry actress has achieved. “She's obviously this incredible actor, but she's such a beautiful person, and when I got to work with her, she taught me so much, and we got so close,” says the 16-year-old.