“Saoirse Ronan’s Bold Response to Male Co-Stars’ Jokes: A Call to Arms for Women in Hollywood!”
The Irish talent delighted fans when she sat down for an interview on The Graham Norton Show last Friday (October 25) with Paul Mescal, Eddie Redmayne, and Denzel Washington.
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At one point, Eddie discussed playing a professional assassin in the thriller series The Days of the Jackal.
The Oscar winner revealed that training for the role involved learning self-defense from a specialist combat expert, and one of the tricks he was taught was to use his phone as a weapon to hit an attacker in the neck, Bored Panda previously reported.
“Who is actually going to think about that? If someone actually attacked me, I’m not going to go ‘phone,’” Paul quipped, gesturing as if to take a phone out of his pocket.
Saoirse tried to speak up, but her colleagues continued to joke, with host Graham miming that he was checking his phone in his pocket.
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“Sorry, Mom, one second – bang,” Paul continued.
“That’s a very good point,” Eddie conceded.
While the audience laughed, Saoirse finally interjected: “That’s what girls have to think about all the time.”
After a moment of silence, Saoirse added, addressing the audience, “Am I right ladies?” Her comments were met with a round of applause as a Threads user praised the actress: “Not enough people are discussing the fact it clearly took Saoirse Ronan a beat or two to be able to get a word in, as women also aren’t used to just taking up space in conversations.
