You may have seen the clip of the actress Saoirse Ronan dealing a little brutal truth to Paul Mescal, Eddie Redmayne and Denzel Washington, on Graham Norton’s sofa. Last Friday night Redmayne had just delivered a charming yet inconsequential line about how he had been taught to use a phone as a weapon of self-defence in preparation for his role in Day of the Jackal, which had prompted Mescal to muse, “Who’s actually going to do that, though?” and Washington to cackle.
“That’s what girls have to think about all the time,” Ronan snapped, which brought the sofa to a mortified silence, then set the internet on fire with righteousness — women and girls remembering all the times they’d walked home alone after