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Saoirse Ronan shut down Paul Mescal for mocking and talking over her in awkward moment minutes before stunning him into silence with gender-based violence remark


The Irish actress, 30, set social media alight when she made a joke about self-defence. Yet it was far from the only awkward moment of the night,

The Irish actress, 30, set social media alight after Friday's appearance on The Graham Norton Show when she made a joke about self-defence while sat alongside an otherwise all-male panel - which included actors Paul, Denzel Washington and Eddie Redmayne. He asked about the training regime for her titular role in 2011 action thriller Hanna, where she plays a young girl raised to be an assassin by her ex-CIA operative father (Eric Bana). Blitz, written and directed by Steven McQueen, 'follow the stories of a group of Londoners during the events of the British capital bombing in World War II,' a logline for the film reads.

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