New dad Barry Keoghan covers GQ UK for Banshees of Inisherin
“I’m trying to find that balance of putting the phone away. I’ve seen The Rock do it. You’ve got to separate that. You’ve got work mode and family time.”https://t.co/kT5FSAELJu
- British GQ (@BritishGQ) October 3, 2022
Barry Keoghan covers GQ UK ahead of the release of awards hopeful Banshees of Inisherin. In it, he talks The Eternals future, his childhood and his fondness for wolves.
- He's fascinated by “how animals can say so much without saying anything.”: He claims to have learned everything he knows about acting from studying them; even now, each character he plays is based on a specific one. He once attended a wolf rescue centre in LA, where animals and humans bond in a kind of mutual therapy session.
- Chloe Zhao on Keoghan: "[He's a] wild wolf. After a while, especially for the seasoned and celebrated filmmakers, there is a desire and thirst to return to the wilderness, to a time when they were more rebellious and carefree,” Zhao says. “He can’t be tamed and you wouldn’t want to, because he will be a constant reminder of the wilderness.”
- His childhood: His father was mainly absent and bc of his mother's heroin addiction Keoghan and his brother went into foster care at the age of five. They moved between 13 different homes throughout his childhood, before winding up back in the care of Keoghan’s “nanny” - his mother’s mother, when he was 10. Keoghan’s mother died two years later.
- He's dating a Scottish orthodontist and they just had a son named Brando.
- On the fate of The Eternals: Keoghan wants to play Druig again, but the day before we meet, Marvel teased its forthcoming slate at San Diego Comic-Con. “[They] didn’t really mention Eternals 2, so…”
- He originally wanted to play The Riddler and sent in a tape. He didn't hear anything for four months: They’d seen the tape, his agent said. “The Batman wants you to play the Joker - but you cannot tell anyone.”
- He wants to be in Taika Waititi's Star Wars: “I’m tryna meet him,” he quips, “I’ve been askin’ everyone.”
- On other directors he wants to work with: The names he summons in the moment - Andrea Arnold, Lynne Ramsay, Céline Sciamma- are all women. “With a man directing, I can get a bit guarded,” he says. “[But with women] you allow yourself to be a lot more open and vulnerable, and with being a bit more vulnerable there’s a bit more access to you and to the character.”
- He lived with Colin Farrell while filming Banshees of Inisherin: “Tell you what, I never thought I’d hear Colin Farrell go, ‘Did you eat my Crunchy Nut last night?’”
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