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“Men Need A Reminder”: Saoirse Ronan Praised For Shutting Down Male Guests With Honest Remark
Saoirse Ronan is being praised for leaving her male colleagues speechless with a powerful reminder about gender-based violence.
The Little Women actress sat down for an interview on The Graham Norton Show last Friday (October 25) with Paul Mescal, Eddie Redmayne, and Denzel Washington.
At one point, Eddie discussed playing a professional assassin in the thriller series The Day of the Jackal.
Highlights
- Saoirse Ronan highlighted the safety concerns women face daily after her male colleagues made a joke on The Graham Norton Show.
- The actress reminded Paul Mescal and Eddie Redmayne that women constantly think about self-defense.
- Saoirse's comments left the actors speechless and were praised by the audience and social media.
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.
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Saoirse Ronan had a fierce comeback to her male colleagues’ joke during an interview on The Graham Norton Show
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“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.
“Sorry, Mom, one second – bang,” Paul continued.
“That’s a very good point,” Eddie conceded.
Image credits: The Graham Norton Show
While the audience laughed, the Lady Bird actress 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.
The clip quickly made the rounds on social media, with thousands of female users thanking Saoirse for addressing the safety concerns women face on the street.
“This encapsulates men being ignorant of male privilege in a nutshell. The fact that these guys– nice guys, mind– are just so unaware is almost terrifying. Thank goodness for Saoirse, though because we all need a bit more attention drawn to this,” reads one message posted on X (formerly known as Twitter), liked over 63,000 times.
During the show, Eddie Redmayne and Paul Mescal joked about the idea of using their phones as a weapon to defend themselves from an attacker, which Eddie was taught for a role
Image credits: The Graham Norton Show
Image credits: The Graham Norton Show
“I like this clip bc these two are arguably some of the least toxically masculine actors, who have shown real intention to make space for female voices in their careers, and yet they are men, so they will never live in a woman’s skin and truly understand the violence we live with,” a separate user wrote.
“The definitive shift after she said that is palpable, actually making them think instead of letting it run as some silly thing with the audience,” a third person pointed out.
“Saoirse Ronan is a queen. Men need a reminder of what it’s like being a woman so they can appreciate their privilege. The silence after she said that speaks volumes,” somebody else agreed.
In the United States, 85% of men reported feeling safe while walking alone at night, compared to 64% of women, according to the Gallup World Poll.
When asked whether they ever “avoided or changed doing things they wanted to do to protect themselves from violence,” more than 70% of women responded affirmatively, according to a study published by the NIH. Over 20% reported carrying pepper spray, and nearly 20% carried a noisemaker, such as a personal alarm, for protection.
The Lady Bird actress left the men speechless by reminding them that women have to think about self-defense and deal with safety concerns daily
Image credits: The Graham Norton Show
Image credits: The Graham Norton Show
The 30-year-old actress is promoting her new film, Steve McQueen’s Blitz, where she plays Rita, a distraught single mother searching for her missing son during the German air raids on London amidst the Second World War.
The film is scheduled to be released in select cinemas in the United Kingdom and the United States on November 1. Then, it will be available on Apple TV+ on November 22.
“To be able to show this other side of what was happening in the war and how it affected mixed-race couples and mixed-race children—and children in general and women—was so fascinating,” Saoirse explained.
“I was so relieved when Steve told me that it was going to focus on a mother-son relationship, and that he’d follow the people back at home and the people on the ground who had been overlooked and weren’t really written about in history books as much. And what an interesting perspective.”
Saoirse is set to star next in Jonathan Etzler’s Bad Apples, a comedy thriller about a primary school teacher struggling with an unruly student. The film, which also stars Jacob Anderson, is based on Rasmus Andersson’s debut novel De Oönskade.
Saoirse was applauded for interrupting the men to give them and the viewers a powerful reminder
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What do you think ?
Ash 2 months ago
Men don't seem to realize that a lot of women walking alone at night already have their phones out, possibly to call emergency services, possibly already on a call with somebody (or pretending to be on a call to somebody) as a safety precaution. Your phone's already in your hand: knowing how to use it to physically protect yourself is actually really smart.
Giraffy Window 2 months ago
I used to go for a walk on a city trail with my then infant in a stroller. Nearly every day there was this one person sitting there in their old red car. Not dozing, reading, eating, smoking, looking at a phone, nothing. Just... Sitting there. Maybe they were completely innocuous, but I thought I could feel a WHOLE lot of vibe oozing from that person and their car. Paranoia vs instinct doesn't matter so much when you've got your small child with you; if you're worried something is up with someone, you give a WIDE berth and silently hope you're wrong. So it became my ritual thaf any day I saw them parked next to the trail, I'd have a conversation with my phone until we were well out of sight. Even if there really wasn't any risk, it still helped me feel calmer to play act and concentrate on how one side of a normal phone conversation sounds.
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Montanavanna 2 months ago (edited)
I wrote an op Ed piece in college about rape culture on campus. I opened it talking about my niece showing me around her first apartment on her own after she was done with her dorm year. Part of the tour included showing me the weak spots for possible break ins and what her strategy is if she were to be attacked in her home. At the end she said she feels safer there than in the dorms. You can ask any woman what is her plan if she were to be attacked and you will get a rundown of her strategy because we have thought about it more than we should have to. As a woman we just assume that at some point in our lives we will be attacked.
Tessa 2 months ago
That last sentence is exactly what it is. We assume it will happen at some point 😞
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J. Maxx 2 months ago
A lot of folks don't realize that a lot of feminine-appearing/acting Gay men have to do the same things as women when walking alone at night. There is a real problem within the cis het men's spere when it comes to attacking those they perceive as weaker.
Montanavanna 2 months ago
For sure, I understand that. Let me ask you this. Since the demographic you are talking about didn't start their lives as feminine appearing men do you think that they worried about such things until they were treated different because of appearing, as you say, weaker? What I am getting at here is just how ingrained the idea that for girls we must be aware that people, mostly men, will try to hurt you because of what genitalia you have. It is just awful that people of any gender have to worry about this.
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Ash 2 months ago
Men don't seem to realize that a lot of women walking alone at night already have their phones out, possibly to call emergency services, possibly already on a call with somebody (or pretending to be on a call to somebody) as a safety precaution. Your phone's already in your hand: knowing how to use it to physically protect yourself is actually really smart.
Giraffy Window 2 months ago
I used to go for a walk on a city trail with my then infant in a stroller. Nearly every day there was this one person sitting there in their old red car. Not dozing, reading, eating, smoking, looking at a phone, nothing. Just... Sitting there. Maybe they were completely innocuous, but I thought I could feel a WHOLE lot of vibe oozing from that person and their car. Paranoia vs instinct doesn't matter so much when you've got your small child with you; if you're worried something is up with someone, you give a WIDE berth and silently hope you're wrong. So it became my ritual thaf any day I saw them parked next to the trail, I'd have a conversation with my phone until we were well out of sight. Even if there really wasn't any risk, it still helped me feel calmer to play act and concentrate on how one side of a normal phone conversation sounds.
Load More Replies... Montanavanna 2 months ago (edited)
I wrote an op Ed piece in college about rape culture on campus. I opened it talking about my niece showing me around her first apartment on her own after she was done with her dorm year. Part of the tour included showing me the weak spots for possible break ins and what her strategy is if she were to be attacked in her home. At the end she said she feels safer there than in the dorms. You can ask any woman what is her plan if she were to be attacked and you will get a rundown of her strategy because we have thought about it more than we should have to. As a woman we just assume that at some point in our lives we will be attacked.
Tessa 2 months ago
That last sentence is exactly what it is. We assume it will happen at some point 😞
Load More Replies... J. Maxx 2 months ago
A lot of folks don't realize that a lot of feminine-appearing/acting Gay men have to do the same things as women when walking alone at night. There is a real problem within the cis het men's spere when it comes to attacking those they perceive as weaker.
Montanavanna 2 months ago
For sure, I understand that. Let me ask you this. Since the demographic you are talking about didn't start their lives as feminine appearing men do you think that they worried about such things until they were treated different because of appearing, as you say, weaker? What I am getting at here is just how ingrained the idea that for girls we must be aware that people, mostly men, will try to hurt you because of what genitalia you have. It is just awful that people of any gender have to worry about this.
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