If we look at Berry Keoghan’s past, few people would predict him a world-class career. The actor himself emphasizes that he would like his story to be an inspiration for those who think they have no chance for a good life. He had an extremely difficult, sad childhood – he and his brother Eric were born in the poor Summerhill district of Dublin, and their mother fell into drugs. There was no father in his life at all.
13 foster homes before he and his brother were placed under the care of their grandmother
In one of the interviews, the actor said that when dealers began to appear en masse in the area, people did not know how terrible the effects of addiction were:
Drugs hit that area and affected all the families and she was one of them who got caught.
The boys were taken care of by the state and went through 13 foster homes over the course of seven years. They later lived with their maternal grandmother, Patricia, and were with her when they learned of their mother’s death. A 31-year-old woman overdosed on heroin. Barry was 12 at the time.
Like so many screen talents before him, Barry Koeghan had an extraordinary drive to achieve something in life. Speaking in one of the interviews about the loss of his mother, he mentioned how he decided:
What more can I lose? The only way is forward.
However, it was not easy for him to come to terms with the loss of his mother. He admits that in Ireland there is a stereotype that accepting help in bereavement is a sign of weakness. That is why he and his brother turned down the offer to work with a psychologist. – You go to a bar and drink your sadness away, but it only works temporarily, because after that you have to go home and put up with yourself. And this feeling does not go away, we ruin ourselves in this way – and. Only after moving to London did he go to therapy.
“He penetrates the souls of his characters.” In their scenes together, he overshadows Colin Farrell
At first, he thought he would be a boxer (he still trains as an amateur) or a football player, but he became more and more drawn to the world of film. He did not do well at school, he left school at the age of 16 – he was simply expelled from school. He claims that he learned how to act by watching nature films on TV. Sitting on the sofa in his grandmother’s house, he watched the behavior of animals that could say anything without saying anything. To this day, when playing subsequent roles, he is modeled on specific genres. As a kid, he was also fascinated by legends such as Marlon Brando, James Dean and Paul Newman and tried to imitate them.
One day, when he was 16, he saw an advertisement in a storefront inviting promising actors to join a new film project. He long harassed the film’s director with requests to audition (reportedly calling him regularly every week) and finally, three years later, he got the part. He then starred in television productions in Ireland, as well as in the heist film American Animals, Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer, HBO’s Chernobyl and Chloe Zhao’s Eternals. The producer of American Animals tells the Guardian that although the audition tape she saw was poor quality phone footage, her thoughts kept coming back to Koeghan. about him:
What it does is magic. There is something about his eyes and the way he penetrates into the souls of his characters. It’s been a fantastic experience to watch his career over the years.
Brendan Gleeson, Martin McDonagh, Kerry Condon, Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan Vianney Le Caer / Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP
And in “Ghosts of Inisherin”, which won m. Three Golden Globes, four BAFTAs and nine Oscar nominations, the 30-year-old actor plays a mild-mannered young man with a low IQ who is abused by his father. Barry Koeghan makes Dominic Kearney a character that is impossible not to sympathize with, but also to laugh with or smile at from time to time. Indeed, in his eyes, but also thanks to other means of expression, we see on the screen an extremely sensitive, complex character who, in my opinion, overshadows Colin Farrell’s scenes together.
The fact that he can make an impression in the background was also proved by Koeghan with his role in the new “Batman”. He did bid for the role of the Riddler, but his efforts landed him the role of the Joker. And although in Matt Reeves’ “Batman” he appears only for a moment, the media and viewers said little less about him than about Robert Pattinson, who plays the Dark Knight. As noted by Keoghan, he ranked fourth on a list of the seven best on-screen Jokers. “For four minutes of screen time, that’s not bad, huh!?” he joked.
Barry Keoghan picked up his partner “for a superhero”
Last August, together with his partner, orthodontist Alyson Sandro, he welcomed a son into the world. They named him Brando – in honor of his favorite actor. The actor, saying that this is love he has not experienced so far, emphasizes:
You can learn from how you were brought up. I get a chance to do things that weren’t done for me.
He met Sandro in a London pub and – as in an interview with “GQ” – he wanted to pick her up with a text that he was an actor, but she was not impressed. When he said he was playing a superhero (one of the Eternals from the Marvel universe), she joked that it was probably Spider-Man and to prove she wasn’t lying, he had to show her pictures from the set with Angelina Jolie. After months of living together, he admits that he relies heavily on his partner, because he himself did not have a model of a real family life. When he was nominated for an Oscar, he dedicated it to his son. :
This is for you, Brando. Daddy loves you.
Even though Ghosts of Inisherin has nine nominations, I’m not going to win that many Oscars. The reason is simple: Keoghan and Brendan Gleeson are nominated for the supporting role, and there is only one statuette. In whose hands it will go, we will find out on March 12.
Source: Gazeta
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