Why Saoirse Ronan was surprised her self-defense comments went viral

“I think people needed something like that, on a platform like that, to say, ‘OK, we can talk about it now’ and just to talk about it,” Saoirse – who is married to the actor. Jack Lowden— said. “And obviously that’s not something that guys have to think about. But I think it’s really important for us, for all of our little young girls growing up, that we say, ‘This is this, this is the mentality that a woman must have, and which a young girl must have every day of her life.”

But the actress has also made it clear that Paul is her “dear friend” and did not “reveal” what she said.

“He totally gets it and totally gets it,” Saoirse told UK’s Virgin Radioper Deadline“but I think the fact that there was a moment like that that happened on a show like Graham Nortonwhich is something that the whole nation is channeling and seeing, and even overseas, it’s something that people are tuning into, it seems to have had an accessibility that seems to have gained traction.”

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