Barry Keoghan breaks down a few of his most iconic characters from 'The Banshees of Inisherin,' 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer,' 'Saltburn,' 'Eternals,' 'The Green Knight,' 'Dunkirk' and 'The Batman.'Director: Graham CorriganDirector of Photography: Francis BernalEditor: Graham MooneyTalent: Barry KeoghanSenior Producer: Elizabeth HalberstadtCreative Producer: Jean-Luc LukunkuCoordinating Producer: Sam DennisLine Producer: Jen SantosProduction Manager: James PipitoneProduction Coordinator: Tania JonesTalent Booker: Ernesto Macias, Dana MathewsCamera Operator: Matthew DinnenyGaffer: Vincent CotaSound Mixer: Gabe QuirogaProduction Assistant: Ashley VidalPost Production Supervisor: Rachael KnightPost Production Coordinator: Ian BryantSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAdditional Editor: Jason MaliziaAssistant Editor: Justin Symonds
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00:00 It's not normal. It's not a normal thing to see.
00:03 But it's a normal thing to do because I know we all do it at home.
00:05 Every single one of us, we all dance around naked.
00:09 The Banshees have been assuring.
00:16 What happened to you?
00:20 My daddy discovered the poaching situation.
00:22 Oh Jesus, Dominic, you poor thing, yeah.
00:26 What the hell was he hitting you with?
00:27 A kettle was the final thing.
00:29 I wouldn't have minded, but for this boat...
00:31 Yeah, it's Martin McDonagh's first movie in Ireland, isn't it?
00:34 And it's a piece of history there, I think.
00:37 It just happened out, this whole Irish crew cast.
00:40 Irish crews are amazing.
00:41 They just go, "Yeah, that's that. Yeah, yeah, we got it. Yeah."
00:44 And it's just like short and sweet.
00:46 Dominic reminded me of, there was a character in Martin McDonagh's play
00:49 called Bartley, the crippled diminished man.
00:52 It kind of reminded me of, I think it's Ernie in What's Eating Kibble?
00:55 Great, but there's a bit of that going on as well.
00:57 Like, he's... There's a lot.
00:59 And a lot of characters I could pull from.
01:01 Maybe this whole thing has just been about getting you to try a new tack.
01:05 Start standing up for yourself a bit.
01:08 Do you think?
01:10 Yeah, and be less of a, you know, "Want any little dollars?"
01:14 You know, there's no really takes that we do the same thing.
01:17 And that, again, is just down to being comfy with one another.
01:20 So that has its advantages.
01:22 And then it has its disadvantages when you live with them.
01:25 And you get too comfy with them.
01:27 It's like that thing of lift up the toilet seat, you know?
01:31 Like, them kind of little things.
01:32 Yeah, like, who left the fridge door open?
01:34 I was like, "It's not me."
01:36 I was like, "You're the only one here."
01:37 Yeah, no, I didn't think so.
01:40 Just thought I'd ask in the off chance, you know, like, "Finn Hartnett?"
01:45 Well, there goes that dream.
01:53 Yeah.
01:54 There goes that dream.
01:57 Oh, man.
02:00 It's funny because that take, I was like, rushing off to catch a plane.
02:03 I was like, "Oh, we got it?"
02:04 I was like, "Let me, you know, let me just," you know,
02:08 I was like, trying to go and get an answer.
02:10 "Give me the answer, okay, bro."
02:11 Anyways, and that was the last take of the movie as well for me.
02:14 Well, I'd say it's a credit to Martin McDonagh.
02:17 He's one of the best writers out there.
02:23 The killing of a sacred deer.
02:24 Hi.
02:29 Hi.
02:29 Sorry to keep you waiting.
02:31 Why, did you eat?
02:34 I just had some apple pie.
02:35 Do you mind if I go grab something to eat before we go?
02:38 I'm starving.
02:39 Martin, what a name, Martin.
02:41 He's such a weird little freak kid.
02:44 That's the freakiest character I think I've played.
02:46 You know, because I don't know if he had like a superpower or some stuff like that,
02:49 which I never found out.
02:53 But I remember Colin saying,
02:54 "You're going to probably play the Joker one day after this character."
02:57 I remember him saying that to me in the hotel.
03:00 He said, "This is one of the most evilest villains.
03:03 You'll play the Joker one day after this."
03:05 I think she, I think she likes you.
03:07 I mean, she's attracted to you, but she says that's not true, but it is, I'm sure.
03:12 And to be honest, I think you're perfect for each other.
03:16 You'd make a great couple.
03:19 He doesn't really ask to keep it monotone or anything like that.
03:23 But I remember he did say, "Stop acting."
03:25 I was like, "All right, I get it. I get it now."
03:28 Because Jorgis wants a certain way, he wants his dialogue delivered
03:32 and can't really animate it or put any color on it really.
03:35 You kind of have to strip it all back.
03:37 But he has his way, he has his method and it works.
03:40 And I'm always up for going along with trying new stuff.
03:45 Salt porn.
03:50 - I can't actually understand.
03:52 - And here he is now.
03:54 We were just talking about you.
03:55 - Don't be silly.
03:56 Farley, you just make up the most awful things.
03:59 Of course we weren't.
04:00 Hello, Oliver, darling.
04:02 That I had a lot of fun with because we want to trick the audience into thinking he's sweet.
04:08 And then they say, "What's his motive?"
04:09 And then, vroom, just turns.
04:12 Emerald, I mean, she's an amazing person, first of all.
04:14 I was checking on everyone, making sure our set is good and the energy is good.
04:18 So you have kind of a safeness to roam about as the character.
04:22 Oh, she loves Oliver.
04:23 She's like, "I love him."
04:24 I had five notebooks for that, five moleskin notebooks instead of like one or two.
04:30 Each notebook would represent personalities, you know, different acceleration,
04:34 different motives, different tone.
04:37 How is he different from here to Oliver Tree, just reminding you?
04:40 You know, not too, too much either.
04:43 You don't want a whole Bible of it because you go in and you're just stiff.
04:47 Then I think, you know, you just have to have a looseness about it and just,
04:51 "All right, I know where to go."
04:53 Just taking these back to the library.
04:55 Taking my bike.
04:57 No, no, no, I couldn't.
05:00 I mean, it looks like rain.
05:01 I wouldn't want to.
05:02 Honestly, it's no big deal.
05:04 I mean, I'll just get it from you later.
05:05 You're in my college, so...
05:07 Am I?
05:08 Yeah.
05:10 With Jacob, I was just, you know, getting used to them and just hanging out with them.
05:15 But they were staying elsewhere while I was staying here.
05:17 Now, I got my baby here, my baby boy.
05:20 I was making hot milk and changing nappies and they were at this hotel
05:25 and they were just hanging out a lot.
05:26 So I kind of felt left out.
05:28 So I was like, "I'm gonna get you."
05:29 In the movie, obviously, I'm gonna get you.
05:43 That tub scene is he's submitting to this obsession and trying to figure out what it is he's chasing.
05:48 And, you know, almost like a sacrifice in how he lowers himself into the bath, you know, physically.
05:54 And then when he gets down there, he's just confused and helpless and sick, you know, to do that.
06:02 But you can't judge that as you play him.
06:10 I can judge it as a spectator, but when I'm playing him, I gotta see justice to it
06:14 and see that it's the right thing to do.
06:16 The grave scene, the same thing.
06:22 I just wanted to explore and grow with the character and figure him out and see.
06:28 When, you know, I asked for a closed set, I said, "I want to try something."
06:31 And I just wanted to see what I'd do as Oliver when action happens and where I went.
06:37 And to me, he just went to a place of being totally heartbroken and lost and confused.
06:44 That's where the books helped me out because it reminded me of where I'm at
06:48 and how to feel, basically, what mood to be in.
06:52 It was totally improv, that. It was crazy.
06:54 I just said, "Play the music, I'll do it."
06:56 Nah, that was choreographed by Polly Bennett. She's brilliant.
06:59 You know, you gotta hit some steps.
07:01 And I think it was gorgeous to look at a figure like that Roman, you know, that manner,
07:08 you know, dripping in money and paintings from the 1700s and, you know, to move so freely.
07:14 It's not normal. It's not a normal thing to see.
07:17 But it's a normal thing to do because I know we all do it at home.
07:21 Every single one of us, we all dance around naked.
07:25 So it's probably the most relatable scene in the movie to everyone watching.
07:30 [Music]
07:34 Eternals.
07:35 When I left, I thought about taking over the minds of every human on this planet.
07:42 Violence, fear, greed, all gone.
07:48 He mind controls everything.
07:51 So I'd love to see him, be just a movie of him playing about mind control and everyone.
07:56 No really motive, just mind control for the sake of it.
08:01 Prep for that is you're doing a superhero movie, so you got to humanize them.
08:05 Don't play the superhero. Try and bring the human side of them out.
08:08 Chloe just kind of let me be me and wanted me to kind of be still.
08:12 And Chloe kept referencing Hayden Christensen,
08:15 his character in Star Wars to be a bit more.
08:17 She just wanted me to be a bit more still, very chin high.
08:21 That was the only really prep I kind of done was to learn to walk a bit slower.
08:26 And I tried to mind control people and people are like, "What are you doing?
08:30 Why are you staring at me?"
08:31 The Green Knight.
08:36 Who are you?
08:40 Just a traveler friend.
08:44 You look like a knight.
08:46 Just passing through.
08:50 Ah, I take it you want some of the share, so.
08:53 Huh? Of what?
08:55 All of this.
08:57 Do you know what The Scavenger reminds me of?
09:02 Sort of like the kind of an Arthur Dodger kind of character.
09:07 You know, he's got a trick up his sleeve or, you know, he's a tiger long.
09:13 That long shot was, my boots kept coming off because it was in the mud.
09:17 You know, we had to get it where I walked through and that was one shot, obviously,
09:21 as well, which is really, you kind of finish all your dialogue, you know, up until a certain point.
09:25 But my shoes kept coming off, so I'd end up at the end of the take with no shoes on.
09:29 Twerent enough.
09:33 Just twerent enough.
09:35 Twerent enough.
09:37 Anything I done kind of freaked Dev out.
09:39 Anything.
09:40 So I could say anything or do anything.
09:44 You know, having the bucked teeth as well, and yeah, it was just, it added a lot to the character.
09:50 Just I could play around being in my own accent as well.
09:54 You kind of have a bit more freedom to improve and the coin was really useful.
09:58 Added another layer to him, that trickery thing to him.
10:01 And then the axe was just, I mean, that's what the whole movie is about, isn't it?
10:05 But yeah, you can really play around with props.
10:07 I love getting a prop.
10:09 It's almost a little character of itself, isn't it?
10:12 Dunkirk.
10:12 Dunkirk.
10:14 That was a massive moment.
10:16 I mean, just the sets and what Chris Nolan does on, you know, on the water.
10:22 He's got real fecking planes coming towards you.
10:25 They take a half an hour to reset.
10:28 You don't really need to act.
10:29 I remember the plane coming towards me and so just zoned in on the plane.
10:32 I was like, "Oh my God."
10:33 And he was like, "Time to get lower."
10:35 And the plane was getting lower then towards our boat.
10:37 I remember then looking at the set and I was like, "Oh my God."
10:39 And I remember then looking at it and going, "Fuck, man."
10:42 And then he was rolling.
10:44 He's like, "We're rolling."
10:45 I was like, "Oh shit."
10:46 It's like half an hour to reset.
10:47 The fight with me and my fellow Irishman, Cully Morphy, yeah.
11:02 He wouldn't do that in real life.
11:04 But anyways.
11:07 That was quite tricky, I mean, because when I fell back, I had to kind of duck my head
11:10 as well so I didn't really fucking hit my head and go blind.
11:14 Poor George killing the sweater.
11:16 That little tea cozy sweater.
11:18 Do you remember that?
11:19 That was a statement, that.
11:21 I wanted more with Cillian though.
11:22 I wanted to do more.
11:23 Me, him and Chris, we just, because Chris has, you know, some Irish relatives and that.
11:28 And we'd be just chatting about Ireland and stuff like that.
11:31 And where's the best Guinness in Dublin.
11:33 And...
11:34 The Batman.
11:39 Originally, there was no audition.
11:53 I just made myself an audition tape because I seen an article saying that they wanted
11:59 the Riddler and the new Batman.
12:01 I was like, "Oh yeah, I'd love to play that."
12:03 I just made a tape.
12:04 I said, "Feck it, I'm going to buy a cane and a hat, just find myself a corridor and
12:08 film myself walking down it."
12:10 Add some like, a little bit of a swag to it and a bit of music and let's see will that
12:14 get me an audition.
12:15 So I've done that, yeah.
12:16 And they said, "No.
12:18 Would you want to play the Joker?"
12:21 I was like, "Yep."
12:31 That took six hours to get into that.
12:33 And I was like, "Oh man, I couldn't sit still for six hours.
12:38 I really couldn't."
12:38 And then I remember we're on five hours and then someone came in, we're shutting production
12:43 now and it's COVID.
12:44 I was like, "Huh?
12:46 Really?
12:47 What?
12:47 What happened?"
12:48 There was like this steel thing on my...
12:50 God, that was like slicing in.
12:52 I was like, "I'm really going to be left with a scar here."
12:55 So I was like that and Rob was in the bass suit and I'm like, "Ha ha."
12:58 And he's like, "Ha ha ha."
12:59 I'm like, "No, ha ha ha you."
13:01 We couldn't move.
13:02 We literally couldn't get up and move.
13:03 I was looking at pictures of asylums and I remember seeing this thing in this asylum
13:08 picture and I always saved on my phone and around the Batman, like the Joker, it said
13:12 it was spray paint of an old asylum room.
13:15 And it said, "Hell was more fun."
13:17 I was like, "Whoa.
13:18 Like, that is crazy."
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