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Paul Mescal Addresses the Viral Saoirse Ronan Interaction About Self-Defense: She ‘Hit the Nail on the Head’

Paul Mescal reacted to the viral 'Graham Norton Show' moment with Saoirse Ronan about women's safety and self-defense, saying that Ronan 'hit the nail on the head' and is 'more often than not the most intelligent person in the room.'

When asked whether he and fellow guests Eddie Redmayne and Denzel Washington were taken back at all by Ronan’s reaction, the actor used his answer to approve of her point, which, as host Patrick Kielty put it, was an “important message about women and how they look after each other.” “It’s definitely not something that I had expected, and I didn’t necessarily set out to sort of make a splash,” she said on The Ryan Tubridy Show on Virgin Radio UK in October. The Oscar-nominated actress also clarified that her fellow guests were not “debunking” anything she said, and that Mescal, in particular, “completely gets” the issue she raised, as they have talked about it personally before.

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