A clip of Saoirse Ronan of The Graham Norton Show has gone viral with social media users flooding online to praise the actor.
Yesterday (October 27), Ronan (The Outrun) was joined on host Graham Norton’s famous couch by Paul Mescal (Gladiator 2), Eddie Redmayne (The Trial of the Chicago 7) and Denzel Washington (Man on Fire), who is also starring alongside Mescal in the upcoming Gladiator film.
Speaking about the preparation for his latest role in the series, The Day of the Jackal, Redmayne explained to the rest of the couch how he was taught how to use his mobile phone as a weapon – you should be able to see where this is going.
He noted rather than whipping it out to dial 999, he was shown how to use the physical phone to do some damage to someone by whacking it against someone’s throat.
Mescal then joked: “Who’s actually going to think about that though? If someone attacked me I’m not going to go, ‘Phone’.”
The Normal People actor’s comment received an outpouring of laughter from Redmayne alongside the audience.
Ronan then tried to interject, however, Norton then joined Mescal in miming checking through his pockets for a phone, with Mescal continuing: “‘Mom, one sec.’ BANG!”
“That’s a very good point,” Redmayne responded, however, little did the men realize Ronan was about to make an even better – and much more important – one.
Saoirse Ronan was quick to respond to the joke (BBC/ The Graham Norton Show)
Having tried to interject multiple times, Ronan was finally able to comment: “That’s what girls have to think about all the time. Am I right ladies?”
Cue moments of widened eyes in slightly startled realization and a moment of silence from the other actors on the couch, Mescal and Redmayne clocking on fairly quickly and nodding their heads in agreement with a few mumbled ‘Yeahs,’ and audience members then jumping in with cheers of support for Ronan’s comment.
And it hasn’t taken long for the moment to go viral with social media users echoing a similar sentiment online.
Ronan ‘gottem’ (BBC/ The Graham Norton Show)
One Twitter user said: “Me liking every single tweet of saoirse ronan gagging the men at the graham norton show.”
“There’s still time, you can still go as Saoirse Ronan silencing Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington and Eddie Redmayne on the Graham Norton Show couch for Halloween,” another added.
A third commented: “That’s mother.”
A fourth wrote: “The thing that angered me the most is that Saoirse Ronan, the only woman on the panel, had to almost fight to make her point amongst a group of laughing men who didn’t consider her input or the experiences of women. Almost as if that’s the entire f**king problem isn’t it?”
“Saoirse Ronan is a queen. Men need a reminder what it’s like being a woman so they can appreciate their privilege. The silence after she said that speaks volumes,” a fifth added.
And a sixth resolved: “Love the immediate concession from the guys, lmao, she gottem.”
UNILAD has contacted Paul Mescal’s representatives for comment.
