Saoirse Ronan breaks silence on awkward Graham Norton show exchange with Paul Mescal

Saoirse Ronan breaks silence on awkward Graham Norton show exchange with Paul MescalThe Ryan Tubridy Show, Virgin Radio

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00:00you know, this women are afraid of being attacked all the time.

00:03Tell me a little bit about about that and saying that and the reaction to it.

00:07The reaction has been wild.

00:11It's definitely not something that I had

00:14expected and I didn't necessarily set out to sort of make a splash.

00:19But I do think there's something really

00:21telling about the society that we're in right now and about how open women want

00:26to be with the men in their lives about their experience, that so many

00:32men and women that I know from all over the world have gotten in touch with me

00:36about this one comment, which is, again, I would urge people, please,

00:40please, please to watch this in context.

00:42Please watch the whole interview or watch

00:45at least that part of the conversation, because it really wasn't about the boys

00:49weren't sort of like debunking anything that I was saying.

00:53But at the same time, it's sort of

00:56it felt very similar to like when I am at dinner with a bunch of my friends and I

01:01will always make the point that, you know, well, this is actually an experience that

01:06we go through every single day, 100 percent of the time.

01:10And Paul being one of my very dear friends,

01:13I've had conversations like that with him before.

01:16And he completely gets that and completely understands that.

01:19But I think the fact that there was a moment like that that happened on a show

01:25like Graham Norton, which is something that the entire nation tunes in to watch

01:29and even overseas, it's something that people tune into.

01:32It seems to have had an accessibility,

01:35which seems to have really gained traction, which I think is amazing.

01:38You know, it's it's opening a conversation.

01:41And again, hopefully it's allowing more and more women to just be like, well,

01:46yeah, actually, let's talk about our experience.