Saoirse Ronan says she didn’t expect to start a movement, but she’s determined that it continues. Since Friday night, the actress has been deluged with messages from all over the world, responding to a one-line comment she made on The Graham Norton Show.
It was a masterclass in how to make a point, and has since been shared hundreds of thousand times on TikTok. Ronan — the only woman guest — sat between Eddie Redmayne and Paul Mescal, quietly bristling as the men joked about self-defence. Redmayne told an anecdote about how, preparing for his role as an assassin in the Day of the Jackal remake, he was trained to use his phone as a weapon if he was attacked. This tickled Mescal —