Barry Keoghan Answers The Web's Most Searched Questions

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This is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.

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I'm so bad with lines. Like honestly, I am.

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Okay.

Why? Why what?

Why was Barry Keoghan Joker scene deleted?

Okay, not deleted. One of the scenes was deleted.

It was deleted from the movie,

but it still exists because, you know,

it came out after the movie,

which I thought was quite a nice moment.

You know, I think as well,

everyone wants to see the Joker,

so I'm carefully answering this because I can't say much,

you know, so.

Oh, why was Barry Keoghan shot in Love/Hate?

Throwback.

Spoiler alerts for everything, by the way.

But I was shot in Love/Hate

because it's a Ganglands TV series and, you know,

if you see it, you see what mischief Wayne,

the character, gets up to

and he's running around with the wrong people, but yeah.

[Producer] Did he deserve it?

Mm, no. No.

He could have learned from it.

I mean, he's so young, isn't it?

Why does Barry Keoghan play weird characters?

No, I think I just play characters

and then they end up being weird because I play them

is the truth.

I like complex characters,

I like characters that aren't so on the nose.

I like complicated characters

and complicated relationships in movies.

And I like sort of giving the audience a character

that they all want to see and it's sort of like

the guilty pleasure and they enjoy it.

And you know, these are the ones to go to see it.

And I try play every part with truth and honesty and,

you know, a lot of them have been weird.

Over my shoulder like this? Okay.

Who is Barry Keoghan in The Immortal Man?

I play Duke Shelby in The Immortal Man.

The Peaky Blinders movie. Yeah.

Go see it and you'll find out.

[Producer] What resonated with the character Duke

with you?

What resonated?

I mean, he's young and handsome,

so I think that does it all for me, I think.

Barry Keoghan, Cillian Murphy.

You know, I'd work with Cillian on every movie.

It'd be kind of weird to do every movie with Cillian,

but if that chance comes up again, I'll do it.

He's such a legend at home,

and you know, he's, if not one of our like,

if not the greatest, you know,

and it's a pleasure to share the screen with him as his son.

[Producer] Since Cillian has been his character

for so long and you came in for this movie,

was it a learning curve to feel comfortable in the world,

or did it feel comfortable right away?

That's a great question.

Yeah, it's a lot, being a fan of the show as well,

coming in and doing scenes with Tommy Shelby,

you know, it's quite a thing when he's walking towards you,

you feel quite scared and nervous,

but I guess they wanted, you know,

sort of my take on it and, you know,

not to be thinking about the whole history of the show.

What happened to Barry Keoghan's character in Dunkirk?

Oh, okay.

Spoiler would be, you know, I died.

You know, I fell down the stairs and died.

But it was this guy that made me die.

He hit me with an elbow, my dad in this movie.

It's crazy.

All links, this all links together.

Grateful to work with Chris Nolan and, you know,

I was on a boat for all of it.

The movie was a massive like, you know,

you know, planes and boats.

But our scene sort of felt very intimate

because it was in a very small space

and there's no monitors on set.

And Chris looks at, he's got this monitor that's,

you know, it looks like a Nintendo.

But he looks, he knows what he wants

and that's why he's a master at what he does,

because he sees it once and he is like, Yeah, I got it.

Number three.

How did Barry Keoghan get into acting?

It was a street casting

of a movie called Between the Canals,

and I was in Dublin, I was young,

and I seen a notice and there was a boxing club

in a shop I used to go to around the corner

called Kathleen's.

And I seen the number on the notice in the window

and took the number and rang it and got an open audition.

I'd done a school play too and I loved it.

I loved what it gave me and I loved the idea of,

you know, performing and this was sort of my avenue into it.

How is Barry Keoghan in,

how is Barry Keoghan in DC and Marvel?

I don't know.

Batman is DC and Eternals is Marvel.

It's not something that, like I've went to go,

I want to go and, you know, get into DC and get into Marvel.

I think the movies come under the bracket of DC and Marvel

and that's what it is.

I'm very grateful to be part of,

you know, two massive comic book homes

that I've read growing up.

How did Barry Keoghan feel about Saltburn?

How did you feel about Saltburn

because you're writing this question?

I mean, do you know what I mean?

How'd I feel about Saltburn

after I seen it the first time?

Very proud of it.

Always very, very proud and grateful to see the final edit.

And I'm always like interested in how people receive it.

Some people loved it, some people hated it,

and you know, some people, whatever,

and it's up to you to receive it whatever way you want.

I remember Emerald saying it as well like, you know,

it's sort of like the guilty pleasure thing

of your character's up there and he's doing these things

and the curiosity of you as an audience member

is sort of like, I wonder what,

or if he'd done that all and you're also enjoying it,

you know, I think it pushes you into a place of like,

are we meant to enjoy this or not?

And I think that's part of the whole immersive process

in seeing the movie.

Toss it away.

Can Barry Keoghan? Yes, he can.

Is Barry Keoghan, oof.

Does anyone leave these ones in?

Like, is that, there we go.

It's me asking all the questions.

Can Barry Keoghan sing? Ooh.

Yeah. Great singer.

I love obviously singing when no one's around.

I love listening to my little boy sing.

You know, I think that's beautiful.

Yeah, he loves, you know, the K-pop song,

and when he sings that, that's absolutely gorgeous.

I just totally love it.

I'm Irish, I mean, that's all we do is sing.

We tell stories. We're storytellers.

Can Barry Keoghan do an American accent?

American Animals is when I've done an American accent,

Like any country, I mean it's now a voice, you know,

it's now voices that I'm interested in.

Accent's not so much the tone of the voice,

the depth of the voice, where it sits, you know,

is it a high pitch, is it a low pitch?

So I think the accent sort of comes last, if I'm honest.

Is Barry Keoghan a Manchester United fan? Yes, I am.

I also have a second cousin, Frank Stapleton,

who played for Manchester United many, many years ago.

We're doing quite well.

It's hard to get the games, yeah,

when you're across in the States

because the time difference.

But yeah, I am a Manchester United fan.

Oh.

Will Barry Keoghan return as Joker?

I cannot answer that question truly, sincerely.

Cannot talk about that.

Does Barry Keoghan box?

Yeah, I do. I train again.

Just come back to, you know, the boxing club

and how it links into when I started acting.

But I love to train, I love to run, I love to spar,

I love to skip, you know.

I grew up kind of training

and it's sort of a meditative thing for me

and it gets me into a place of starting my routine.

So I love boxing, I love training. Yeah.

Barry Keoghan Orman. Okay.

Fact, that's a fact.

I play Orman, Crime 101.

Orman is a complicated character, a lost soul.

Bring it back to working with filmmakers.

Bart Layton, you know, is a close friend of mine.

He got American Animals and I love Bart truly.

Bart came to me with this part and wanted me to do it

and I was like, Yeah, let's do it.

Great part to play in a great movie.

Barry Keoghan legend.

Barry Keoghan dance scene Saltburn.

Yep. That is it.

It's crazy, isn't it, that scene?

It was wrote a dance in my clothes,

written, it was dance in my clothes.

We chatted about it and, you know,

it's sort of like when we dance

and we get out of the shower, if there's music playing

or we do it in spaces that we're comfortable with

in spaces that we own, you know, when we're alone.

That was the whole point for Oliver

and me and Emerald discussed it was like,

this is my mansion now.

There was something also beautiful,

not just saying it because it was me naked,

but seeing this figure, these limbs move around,

this sort of, you know, frame that looked like a painting.

And to have a song like More Than the Dance Floor

play over it, was just, yeah,

I think it was iconic.

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Okay, that's all the boards and thank you for having me.

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