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Saoirse Ronan is being hailed an Irish queen by women worldwide after shutting down a couchful of famous men and calling out a gendered blind spot.
Mescal interjected, joking: "If someone attacked me, I'm not gonna go, 'Phone,'”, while miming himself reaching for his phone.
“Sorry, mum, one second—bang,” he continued, miming interrupting a phone call to punch an attacker.
The men on the couch giggled, while Ronan clearly had a lot to say regarding the problematic joke. She opened her mouth a few times to say something but was spoken over, an ironic occurrence in itself regarding the experience of being a woman.
“Can you hang on a second?” Graham Norton added, while tapping his pockets looking for a phone.
Finally, Saoirse broke her silence. “That’s what girls have to think about all the time,” she said.
The remark was met with an awkward silence, but she continued.
“Am I right, ladies?” she added, following up the quip with a quick ‘shakas’ with her hands, in an attempt to break the ice with the men she’d just silenced.
I must be missing whatever context is needed to understand this. I know the useless keys between fingers stupidity we're all taught; what's the phone trick they're joking about? I want in on the joke, but the article is missing all of the details, too.