Oscar-nominated actor Barry Keoghan has opened up about shooting saucy scenes in the blockbuster flick Saltburn – and they were surprisingly easy.
In the film's final scenes, his character Olive Quick dances down the manor halls, to Sophie Ellis Bextor's hit song, Murder On The Dancefloor. But Barry has now said that dancing was his biggest worry for the movie and it took a lot of work to get the scene to be ready for release.
The heartthrob, 31, who stars alongside Jacob Elrodi in the movie which has gone down a storm on social media has now spoken about the graphic scenes which left viewers gobsmacked – as well as his dancing skills.
Speaking about the dancing, Barry told Vanity Fair: "Without sounding cocky, it wasn't the nudity. That was fine for me. It was the dancing. I don't really dance, I don't know how to move my hips certain ways and your body has to go in certain directions and stuff like that," he added. "The dancing scared me. So once I was comfy with the dance, the rest was easy."
"But it could have been 40 and I wouldn’t have cared," the Irish Hollywood star previously explained. "When you do something like that you want it to be to the point because it can go either way. So we didn’t stop until we got it, to the point where I put my left foot forward rather than my right [because we wanted it to be perfection."
He told The Wrap he worked with movement coach Polly Bennett for the film's raunchy moments, telling the outlet: "Polly was like, 'I want you to do this, that and that,' [but] then she was like, 'I want you to do it as you.' She's so good at what she does that she makes you just feel that you’re not dancing. It [was] a move through the house rather than a dance sequence."
The confessions come after Barry candidly revealed he prays daily to his mother - who tragically lost her life to heroin addiction when he was just 12-years-old. The star has enjoyed growing success in recent years and was nominated for a best supporting actor Academy Award earlier this year for his role in Martin McDonagh's dark comedy-drama The Banshees of Inisherin. Barry was born and raised in Dublin and began his move into the world of acting when he was 19 years old.
Barry’s childhood was marred with sadness, however, as his mother battled drug addiction and sadly passed away when he was just 12. He and his brother, Eric, then moved into the foster system before he and Eric were cared for by their family.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, Barry opened up about his childhood memories of his mother - and revealed he thinks of her daily and speaks to her through prayer. He told the weekend publication: “I pray to her every day… she was so beautiful.”
Casting his mind back to his childhood, the Marvel’s Eternals star said he used to delight his mum, who was named Debbie, by dancing for her. He recalled: “I’d do this Elvis dance for her. They'd just rereleased A Little Less Conversation — she loved it.”
Having now made a name for himself in Hollywood, the Irish star continued: “I was working with Austin [Butler, who played Elvis in Baz Luhrmann's biopic, and who stars with Barry in Steven Spielberg's forthcoming miniseries Masters of the Air] and I shared that memory, started doing the dance for him…”
He also highlighted the sacrifices his family made to help raise him following Debbie’s tragic death. He said: “My cousin, who I call my sister, was 15 and she gave up her bedroom for us — until five years ago she was sleeping in a room with my auntie. I owe them all so much… My family's most concerned about my wellbeing, all the [stardom] stuff is secondary to them... But they have a good chat about it in the pub! They get their pints in.”
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