Hollywood actress Saoirse Ronan, star of films like What’s That? and I’ve Never Seen It, recently interrupted a conversation between her fellow couch-perching celebrity thesps Paul Mescal and Eddie Redmayne on The Graham Norton Show to ostentatiously point out she was in far more danger of one day being raped by a stranger in the street than either of them was.
Chatting with Norton, Redmayne revealed how, in preparation for a role in an upcoming thriller series, he had been trained by entertainment-industry ninjas in how to fend off an attacker using only his smartphone. Mescal queried how someone would have the time to take their mobile out before being assaulted, to which Ronan suddenly interjected “That’s what girls have to think about all the time. Am I right, ladies?”, prompting frenzied applause from the studio audience, none of whom had the moral pluck to wait until the clapping had died down and then just loudly say “No”.
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