Paul Mescal has addressed the moment Saoirse Ronan unexpectedly shut him down – and the rest of the male panel – during an event. Recent appearance on “The Graham Norton Show”.
The “Gladiator II” star appeared on Ireland’s “The Late Late Show” on Friday night, where he was asked if he was surprised by his “Foe” co-star’s now-viral comment.
“No, I don’t think we were surprised because, like you said, you’re on a talk show like this and you’re just talking,” Mescal, 28, explained.
“But I’m not surprised the message got as much attention as it did because it is so widely important.”
On October 25, Mescal was being interviewed by Norton alongside Eddie Redmayne, Denzel Washington, and Ronan when the conversation turned to the plot of Redmayne’s latest film, where he plays a killer who turns his phone into a weapon. Uses as.
After Mescal and Norton started joking about the concept, the ‘Normal People’ actor asked: ‘Who’s actually going to think of this? If someone actually attacked me, I wouldn’t go, ‘Phone!’
While the rest of the panel laughed, Ronan clearly intervened: “Girls have to think about this all the time.”
The comment quickly ended the laughter and many people online praised the actress for telling such a brutal truth.
“I’m sure you have Saoirse on the show,” Mescal told “Late Late Show” host Patrick Kielty on Friday.
“And she is often, if not more often, the smartest person in the room.”
The “Graham Norton Show” moment was no exception, according to Mescal, who said Ronan “was right” and “hit the nail on the head.”
The “Little Women” actress opened up about the moment in a Virgin Radio UK interview last month and admitted it wasn’t planned.
“It’s definitely not something I expected, and I didn’t necessarily set out to make any kind of splash,” she said on “The Ryan Tubridy Show.”
“But I think there’s really something about the society we’re in right now that speaks to how open women want to be with the men in their lives.
“So many men and women I know from around the world have contacted me about this one comment, I would again urge people to please, please, please look at this in context.”
