The mother and daughter in
Lady Bird are Christine and Marion. Christine, who goes by the name Lady Bird, is played by Saoirse Ronan. Lady Bird is a senior in high school, and she just wants to get out of Sacramento and move out to the East Coast, go to any school that is not close by to her family and her parents, who she just feels so misunderstood by. And Marion is played by the amazing Laurie Metcalf, who you’ll know from
Roseanne as Jackie, Roseanne’s sister. And the two of them embody that really frustrating relationship that you can have as a teenager with your mother, that sense of wanting so much to connect, and yet not being able to connect.