Saoirse Ronan stuns male panel into silence with 10-word reality check in viral video

Saoirse Ronan set social media alight with a powerful reminder about violence against women during an interview on The Graham Norton Show.

The American-born Irish actress, 30, left the all-male panel – which included actors Denzel Washington, Paul Mescal and Eddie Redmayne – in stunned silence after she interjected during a joke about self-defense.

Redmayne, 42, explained that amid his training for The Day of the Jackal, an upcoming Peacock miniseries, he received instruction as how to use a phone to retaliate in the event of an attack.

A guffawing Mescal, 28, added, ‘Who is actually going to think about that? If someone actually attacked me, I’m not going to go “phone.”‘

Giggling Norton, 61, mimicked holding a phone to fend off an assailant, saying, ‘Can you hold on a second?’ to which Redmayne said, ‘That’s a very good point.’