To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video Paul Mescal has praised his friend Saoirse Ronan for speaking out on women’s safety in a viral clip from The Graham Norton Show, saying she ‘hit the nail on the head’. The two Oscar nominees appeared on the BBC One talk show, where Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne was talking about his training for his role as a lone assassin in Sky Atlantic series The Day Of The Jackal, and how he was taught how to use a phone in an attack. In response, Mescal, 28, said: ‘If someone attacks me I’m not going to go (reaches into pocket) phone’, before Ronan chimed in and said: ‘That’s what girls have to think about all the time.
Am I right ladies?’ The clip received a lot of attention on social media, and Mescal was asked on Irish broadcaster RTE’s The Late Late Show if they were surprised by the reception. He responded: ‘No, I don’t believe we were surprised, because you’re like, as you said, you’re on a talk show like this, and you’re kind of just talking. ‘But I’m not surprised that the message received as much attention that it got, because it’s massively important and I’m sure you’ve had Saoirse on the show, like, she’s.
.. quite often, more often than not, the most intelligent person in the room.
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was spot on, hit the nail on the head, and it’s also good that ...
messages like that are kind of gaining traction, lik.