His career may be going from strength to strength, by Barry Keoghan has hinted that the grass is not always green.
Speaking in a recent interview, the actor who won a BAFTA for his role in The Banshees of Inisherin last year, was also nominated for an Academy Award, for his performances the Martin McDonagh directed movie.
Saltburn saw Keoghan nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, an award which eventually went to fellow Irish actor Cillian Murphy, for his role in the Christopher Nolan directed Oppenheimer.
Keoghan and Murphy were also nominated alongside Irish star Andrew Scott for All Of Us Strangers.
“loneliness that comes with it”
In this interview, Barry Keoghan that during a film premiere at New York in “one of the noisiest, busiest cities in the world”, he felt a sense of loneliness.
“There’s a loneliness as well that comes with this”, the former Love/Hate actor said. “A massive loneliness. It’s hard not to talk about that or to pretend that’s not there”.
Elsewhere, Keoghan also revealed that he often thinks of his mother, who struggled with drug addiction when he was a child, when he is alone.
“My mother, always. She’s many years passed now, but I always think about her anyway”, Keoghan stated.
“It’s always just in and around achievements that it’s really prominent – ’cause you’d like to celebrate that with her, you know?”.
“real”
The interview also saw Barry Keoghan, who appears on the cover of GQ Magazine, talk about his latest project Saltburn, where he stars as a student Oliver Quick, who struggles to find his place at Oxford University.
Keoghan who was placed in multiple foster homes as a child following his mother’s death, and went on to live with his grandmother, has admitted that it does not feel “real” starring in Hollywood movies.
“This is not real, is it? It can’t be real. I’m gonna wake up right now. In a second, I’ll be like, ‘f***, man – that was some dream’,” he added.
There is one scene from the movie, where Keoghan’s character comes of age, and he says he is “not just being looked at as the weird-looking guy, the unique f*****’ freaky little freak man-child, freak child-man, whatever you want to call it”.
He also added that his “prettiness didn’t get me this far” but being seen in another way “opens up other lanes for me, it’s part of the leading man thing”.
Barry Keoghan will also appear alongside Elvis star Austin Butler in the upcoming War drama series Masters Of The Air, which will premiere on Apple TV+ on January 26.
See that trailer here.
