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  • The butt of your phone to go over the legs?

  • Who's actually going to think about that?

  • If someone attacks me, I'm not going to get phoned.

  • That's what girls have to think about all the time, am I right, ladies? Saoirse Ronan didn't hold back during a recent TV interview.

  • The 30-year-old actress appeared on the October 25th episode of The Graham Norton Show.

  • She was the only woman among the four guests, which also included actors Paul Mescal, Eddie Redmayne, and Denzel Washington. The moment, which has now gone viral online, came after Redmayne spoke about the physical training he did to take on the role of an assassin in the upcoming miniseries, "The Day of the Jackal." "I find some of the techniques, though, that you learn, like some of the things Paul taught us, is how you can use your phone if someone's attacking you, the butt of your phone." After explaining that his trainer taught him to use his phone as a weapon if he was being attacked, Paul Mescal and host Graham Norton started joking back and forth at the idea of using a phone in a moment of danger. "The butt of your phone to go over the legs?

  • Who's actually going to think about that?

  • If someone attacks me, I'm not going to get phoned." That's when Ronan chimed in with a reality check that was met with silence from the men on the stage and cheers from the audience.

  • Social media users said she gagged the others for speaking up. "That's what girls have to think about all the time, am I right, ladies?"

The butt of your phone to go over the legs?

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