An offensive clip of Lily Tomlin during an interview has resurfaced after Saoirse Ronan’s powerful reminder of misogyny.
American-born Irish actress Ronan, 30, left the all-male panel – which included actors Denzel Washington, Paul Mescal and Eddie Redmayne – in silence after she was interjected during a joke about self-defense during an interview on The Graham Norton Show last Thursday.
As the rest of the panel laughed at using their phones to retaliate during the attack, Ronan silenced them by commenting: ‘That’s what girls have to think about all the time.’
‘Am I right, ladies?’ he then asked the crowd, eliciting a huge round from the studio audience.
Saoirse’s comments have sparked a lot of debate online, with people quick to compare them to a 1972 interview featuring Lily Tomlin and Chad Everett.
Lily Tomlin’s clip bursts out as interview resurfaces after Saoirse Ronan’s feminist moment.
Ronan, 30, has gone viral recently for giving people a reality check on women’s self-defense during an interview on The Graham Norton Show
In a clip from The Dick Cavett Show, actress and comedian Tomlin stormed the plane after Everett described his wife as an ‘animal’ he ‘owned’.
Everett, who died of lung cancer in 2012, said: ‘I had three horses, three dogs and a wife. He’s the most beautiful animal I’ve ever owned.’
After a moment of silence, Tomlin replied: ‘You have? I have to leave’ and stormed out to a mixture of laughter and applause.
Everett said: ‘This is really annoying,’ before shouting: ‘Lily come on! The joke is over.’
Meanwhile Cavett tells Lily he’ll be back in ‘ten seconds’, and tells Everett ‘I’m sorry he did that.’
The clip has racked up over one million views on Twitter since it resurfaced, with many seeing Tomlin’s reaction as a fitting parallel to Ronan’s.
Posting on X/Twitter wrote, one user wrote: ‘The new saoirse ronan clip makes me think of when lily tomlin walked out of the middle of an interview when a friend of the actor called her husband “the most beautiful animal I have” and to be honest !!’;
“lily come on.. the joke is over” oh i know she’s shy’;
In a 1972 interview on the Dick Cavett Show, Chad Everett (pictured) said his wife was ‘the most beautiful animal I’ve ever owned’
The clip has racked up over one million views on Twitter since it resurfaced, with many seeing Tomlin’s reaction as a timely parallel to Ronan’s.
‘”Gee what’s the annoying thing” oh but no more than calling your husband an animal’;
‘”I must leave” using this line forever now’;
‘And here I was thinking I couldn’t love Lily Tomlin more than I do. I stand corrected.’
Everett, whose real name was Raymon Lee Cramton, died in 2012 of lung cancer at the age of 75.
He is best known for playing Dr. Joe Gannon in the drama Medical Center. Tomlin, who is now 85, is still active in the acting industry, recently starring in Moving On (2022) and 80 For Brady (2023).
During Ronan’s interview, Redmayne, 42, explained that in training for Day of the Jackal, Peacock’s upcoming miniseries, he received instructions on how to use his phone to retaliate in the event of an attack.
A guffawing Mescal, 28, added: ‘Who really thinks about this? If someone attacked me, I wouldn’t “call it out.”
Giggling Norton, 61, mimicked holding the phone to fend off the assailant, saying, ‘Can you hold on elsewhere?’ to which Redmayne said, ‘That’s a very good point.’
Ronan said as Redmayne explained that while training for The Day of the Jackal, he received instructions on how to use the phone in self-defense.
The Oscar-nominated actress then found a moment to share her perspective, saying: ‘This is what girls have to think about all the time.’
His brutally honest comments elicited silence from the panel.
‘Am I right, ladies?’ he then asked the crowd, eliciting a huge round from the studio audience.
Ronan – who has said he would love to play a Bond villain – received praise on social media, as people praised him for speaking out about the situation.
Said one user: ‘Saoirse Ronan gagging people we love to see it.’
Others called Ronan ‘queen,’ saying that ‘men need to be reminded of what it is like to be a woman so they can appreciate their privilege.
The user noted that ‘the silence after he spoke spoke volumes,’ while others said ‘the silence took me out.’
A separate user said the clip contained men who were briefly unaware of male privilege.
Saoirse Ronan, 30, won praise for her comments on a recent edition of The Graham Norton Show
The American-born Irish actress revealed the dangers women face during Thursday’s edition, when she appeared with fellow actors Denzel Washington, 69, Paul Mescal, 28, and Eddie Redmayne, 42.
‘The fact that these people – good guys, mind you – don’t know is almost scary,’ said the user. ‘Thanks to Saoirse though because we all need more attention on this.’
One user said: ‘I love Saoirse Ronan – when she mentions how women need to keep thinking about how to protect themselves from attacks and everyone goes quiet and cheers. He’s right!’
One user said the moment was a microcosm of how men and women communicate, saying ‘this is what it’s like to relate to men.’
Another user said the tone-deafness of gender issues was apparent in a quote from a popular British talk show.
“The most infuriating thing is that Saoirse Ronan, the only woman on the panel, has to almost struggle to make a point among a group of laughing people who don’t consider women’s input or experience,” one user wrote. said. ‘It’s almost like that’s the whole point, isn’t it?’
Ronan is currently promoting the war drama film Blitz, which is scheduled to be released in theaters on November 1st before streaming on Apple TV+ on November 22nd.
Ronan received more praise on social media, as people praised him for speaking out about the situation
The film also stars Elliott Heffernan, Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clémentine, Kathy Burke, Paul Weller and Stephen Graham.
Blitz, written and directed by Steven McQueen, ‘follows the story of a group of Londoners as the British capital is bombed in World War II,’ is the logline for the film.
Ronan portrays a woman named Rita who is raising her nine-year-old son George (Heffernan) in the midst of tumultuous times.
