00:00I'm Barry Keoghan and this is the Wired Auto...
00:04This is the Wired Auto-Complete interview.
00:09I'm so bad with lines, like honestly, I am.
00:15Okay.
00:17Why?
00:18Why what?
00:19Why was Barry Keoghan Joker scene deleted?
00:23Okay, not deleted.
00:24One of the scenes was deleted.
00:26It was deleted from the movie but it still exists because it came out after the movie
00:33which I thought was quite a nice moment.
00:36I think as well, everyone wants to see the Joker, so...
00:39I'm carefully answering this because I can't say much, you know, so...
00:48Spoiler alerts for everything, by the way.
00:50But I was shot in Love Hate because it's a gangland TV series
00:53and, you know, if you see it, you see what Mischief, Wayne, the character gets up to
00:59and he's running around with the wrong people and...
01:02But yeah.
01:03Did he deserve it?
01:05No.
01:07No, he could have learned from it.
01:08I mean, he's so young, isn't it?
01:12Why does Barry Keoghan play weird characters?
01:14No, I think I just play characters and then they end up being weird
01:17because I play them, is the truth.
01:19I like complex characters.
01:21I like characters that aren't so on the nose.
01:23I like complicated characters and complicated relationships in movies
01:28and I like sort of giving the audience a character that they all want to see
01:33and it's sort of like a guilty pleasure and they enjoy it
01:36and, you know, yous are the ones going to see it.
01:41And I try to play every part with truth and honesty and, you know, a lot of them have been
01:47words.
01:50All right, open my shoulder like this.
01:52Okay.
01:56I play Duke Shelby in The Immortal Man, the Peaky Blinders movie.
02:01Yeah.
02:02Go see it and you'll find out.
02:04What resonated?
02:04What resonated with the character Duke with you?
02:07What resonated?
02:08I mean, he's young and handsome, so I think that does it all for me, I think.
02:14Barry Keoghan and Cillian Morphy.
02:16You know, I'd work with Cillian on every movie.
02:19It'd be kind of weird to do every movie with Cillian, but if that chance comes up again, I'll do
02:25it.
02:26He's such a legend at home and, you know, he's, if not one of our, like, if not the greatest,
02:32you know,
02:32and it's a pleasure to share the screen with him as his son.
02:36Since Cillian has been his character for so long and you came in for this movie,
02:40was it a learning curve to feel comfortable in the world or did he feel comfortable right away?
02:44That's a great question.
02:46Yeah, it's a lot, being a fan of the show as well, coming in and doing scenes with Tommy Shelby,
02:52you know,
02:52it's quite a thing when he's walking towards you, you feel quite scared and nervous.
02:57But I guess they wanted, you know, sort of my take on it and, you know, not to be thinking
03:02about the whole history of the show.
03:05What happened to Barry Keoghan's character in Dunkirk?
03:08Oh, okay, spoiler would be, you know, I died, you know, I fell down the stairs and died,
03:16but it was this guy that made me die.
03:19He hit me with an elbow.
03:20My dad in this movie, it's crazy.
03:23All links, it's all links together.
03:26Grateful to work with Chris Nolan and, you know, I was on a boat for all of it.
03:32The movie was a mass of, like, you know, planes and boats, but our scene sort of felt very intimate
03:41because it was in a very small space and there's no monitors on set.
03:46And Chris looks at, he's got this monitor that's, you know, it looks like a Nintendo,
03:52but he looks like he knows what he wants and that's why he's a master of what he does,
03:57because he sees it once and he's like, yeah, I got it.
04:02Number three.
04:05How did Barry Keoghan get into acting?
04:07It was a street casting of a movie called Between the Canals and I was in Dublin,
04:13I was young and I seen a notice and there was a boxing club and a shop I used to
04:20go to around
04:21the corner called Kathleen's and I seen the number and the notice in the window and took the number
04:28and ring it and got an open audition.
04:31I'd done a school play or two and I loved it.
04:33I loved what it gave me and I loved the idea of performing and this was sort of my avenue
04:41into it.
04:42How is Barry Keoghan in, how is Barry Keoghan in DC and Marvel?
04:48I don't know.
04:50Batman is DC and Eternals is Marvel.
04:53It's not something that like I've went to go, I want to go and, you know, get into DC and
05:00get into Marvel.
05:00I think the movies come under the bracket of DC and Marvel and that's what it is.
05:05I'm very grateful to be part of, you know, two massive comic book poems that I've read growing up.
05:14How did Barry Keoghan feel about Soulborn?
05:17How did you feel about Soulborn because you're writing this question?
05:20I mean, do you know what I mean?
05:21How did I feel about Soulborn after I'd seen it for the first time?
05:24I'm very proud of it, always very, very proud and grateful to see the final edit and I'm always, like,
05:33interested in how people receive it.
05:36Some people loved it, some people hated it and, you know, some people whatever and it's up to you to
05:41receive it whatever way you want.
05:42I remember Emerald saying as well, like, you know, it's sort of like the guilty pleasure thing of your character's
05:49up there and he's doing these things.
05:50And the curiosity of you as an audience member is sort of like, I wonder what or if he'd done
05:56that all and you're also enjoying it, you know?
05:59I think it pushes you into a place of, like, are we meant to enjoy this or not?
06:03And I think that's part of the whole immersive process and seeing a movie.
06:08Toss it away.
06:09Can Barry Keoghan?
06:10Yes, he can.
06:12Is Barry Keoghan?
06:13Oof.
06:13Does anyone leave these ones in?
06:15Like, is that?
06:16There we go.
06:17It's me asking all the questions.
06:19Can Barry Keoghan sing?
06:21Ooh.
06:22Yeah.
06:22Great singer.
06:23I love obviously singing when no one's around.
06:27I love listening to my little boy sing.
06:30You know, I think that's beautiful.
06:32Yeah, he loves, you know, the K-pop song.
06:38And when he sings that, that's absolutely gorgeous.
06:42And I just totally in love with it.
06:44I'm Irish.
06:44I mean, that's all we do is sing.
06:46We tell stories.
06:47We're storytellers.
06:47Can Barry Keoghan do an American accent?
06:51American Animals is when I've done an American accent.
06:54Like any country, I mean, it's now a voice, you know, it's now voices that I'm interested in.
07:00Accents not so much the tone of the voice, the depth of the voice, where it sits, you know.
07:06Is it a high pitch?
07:07Is it a low pitch?
07:09So I think the accent sort of comes last, if I'm honest.
07:15Is Barry Keoghan a Manchester United fan?
07:19Yes, I am.
07:19I also have a second cousin, Frank Stapleton, who played for Manchester United many, many years ago.
07:26We're doing quite well.
07:27So it doesn't, it's hard to get the games here when you're across in the States because of the time
07:33difference.
07:34But yeah, I am a Manchester United fan.
07:36Hoo hoo.
07:37Will Barry Keoghan return as Joker?
07:39I cannot answer that question truly, sincerely.
07:43I cannot talk about that.
07:47Does Barry Keoghan box?
07:51Yeah, I do.
07:52I train, again, just going back to, you know, the boxing club and how it links into when I started
07:58acting.
07:58But I love to train.
08:00I love to run.
08:00I love to spar.
08:02I love to skip, you know, grew up kind of training and sort of a meditative thing for me.
08:09And it gets me into a place of starting my routine.
08:12And so I love boxing. I love training.
08:16Yeah.
08:17Barry Keoghan, Orman.
08:18Okay, fact.
08:20That's a fact.
08:21I play Orman, Crime 101.
08:24Orman is a complicated character.
08:26A lost soul.
08:27Bring it back to working with filmmakers.
08:30Bart Layton, you know, is a close friend of mine.
08:33He's done American Animals and I love Bart, truly.
08:37And Bart came to me with this part and wanted me to do it.
08:41And I was like, yeah, let's do it.
08:42Great part to play in a great movie.
08:45Barry Keoghan, a legend.
08:48Barry Keoghan dance scene.
08:49So, yep.
08:52That is it.
08:53It's crazy, isn't it?
08:53That scene.
08:54It was wrote A Dance In My Clothes written.
08:57It was A Dance In My Clothes.
08:59We chatted about it and, you know, it's sort of like when we dance and we get out of the
09:04shower,
09:04if there's music playing or we do it in spaces that we're comfortable with and spaces that we own,
09:09you know, when we're alone.
09:11That was the whole point for Oliver and me and Emerald discussed it.
09:14It was like, this is my mansion now.
09:17There was something all so beautiful, not just saying it because it was me naked,
09:20but seeing this figure, these limbs move around this sort of, you know, frame that looked like a painting.
09:27And to have a song like, um, more than the dance floor play over it, which is, yeah,
09:34I think it was, it was iconic.
09:39Okay.
09:40That's all the boards and thank you for having me until next time.
09:43And keep searching all your weird questions.
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