Saoirse Ronan addresses viral women’s safety comments

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What is Saoirse Ronan’s star persona now that she’s grown up? We know she is a remarkable talent; we know she is Irish; and we know she was a child prodigy and earned her first Oscar nomination for acting Reconciliation after being cast at the age of 11. But now she’s old enough to get married and approximately 70 billion Irish actors have made their way into Hollywood since she earned her last Oscar nomination, for 2019’s Little Women. This year she has two potential vehicles – Steve McQueen’s Flashwhere she plays a mother during World War II, and Expirationwhere she plays a recovering alcoholic – and she needs a new bit. She cannot build an Oscar campaign any longer education talk show hosts to pronounce her name. Now, at least in the first phase of the campaign, she has found an opportunity: teaching men what it’s like to be a woman.

Latest interviews ahead Flash and Expiration has locked in an instant The The Graham Norton Show that recently went viral and allowed her to show men how little they think about women’s safety. “I think people have needed something like this on a platform like this to say, ‘Oh, okay. We can talk about it now,'” she said Today show on November 7.

The original incident was forwarded Graham Norton on October 25, when Norton, Eddie Redmayne, Denzel Washington and Ronan’s Irish actor Paul Mescal tripped over each other to laugh at a self-defense technique Redmayne learned for Days of the Jackal, where the victim shoves the “butt of your phone” into an attacker’s throat. “Who’s going to think about that anyway?” Mescal guffawed. “If someone attacks me, I’m not going to say ‘Tel!'” “That’s what girls have to think about all the time,” Ronan said in response. “Am I right, ladies?” (This isn’t the first time Ronan has expressed a similar sentiment; check it out Saturday Night Live“Welcome to Hell” sketch.) “The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve felt that it’s just really important that we communicate that to guys who just don’t have to think about it, through no fault of their own.” she told Weekly entertainment on 31 October.

This is obviously an important issue, but also a smart one, campaign-wise, for Ronan and her team to highlight. With two films to support at the moment, she needs to be able to focus attention not just on any single subject, but on her personality. She’s not just any talented Irish actor – she uses her talent to good.