It's four days to go until the Oscars, and buzz is building for our gal Saoirse Ronan.

The Carlow/New York native is up for a Best Actress gong for her role in Brooklyn, but she's been getting just as much camera time outside of the world of film too.

Her instantly-recognisable face appears on the cover of Interview magazine's current issue which launched today, and she looks downright stunning.

The black-and-white cover, photographed by Mikael Jansson, is a more edgy Saoirse than what we're used to seeing on screen and at awards shows. Wearing a skintight Dior dress and with her hair and skin drenched in water, the 21-year-old is positively smouldering, in fact.

As part of Interview's Fashion Issue, which features four covers from four different stars, Saoirse chatted to fellow A-lister Jodie Foster, and the pair did some serious bonding over their similar Hollywood childhoods.

"I'm really close to my mom as well, and she came away with me up until I was 19," said Saoirse of her time away from home on shoots. 

"I'm a baby… But she always comes over for the first week to help me settle in. It's really important."

Having moved out of home and set up with her own place in London just two years ago, Saoirse admits the whole thing was a big learning curve.

"It was something that I needed and I wanted to do. I wanted to leave Ireland and have anonymity while I was young so I could be stupid and relaxed, I suppose.

"So I lived on my own and got used to paying bills every month and washing dishes and not leaving them in the sink for five days."

An Oscar-nominated star who washes her own dishes? Saoirse sounds like our kinda lady.