“I think people have needed something like this, on a platform like that, to go, ‘OK, we can talk about it now,’ and just to talk about that,” Saoirse—who is married to actor Jack Lowden—said. “And, of course, it’s not something that guys would have to think about. But I think it’s really important for us, for all of our little young girls that are growing up, that we go like, ‘This is the this is the mentality that a woman has to have, and that a young girl has to have every day of her life.'”
But the actress has also made it clear that Paul is her “dear friend” and was not “debunking” what she was saying.
“He completely gets that and completely understands that,” Saoirse told the U.K.’s Virgin Radio, per Deadline, “but I think the fact that there was a moment like that that happened on a show like Graham Norton, which is something that the entire nation channels and to watch and even overseas, it’s something that people tune into, it seems to have had an accessibility which seems to have really gained traction.”
(E! and Today are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)
