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Getting involved with 'Black 47' was like getting involved with 'Dunkirk' for me. I learned a lot. But 'Black 47' was my own history from my own country.
Barry Keoghan
I can play younger. It's better to be playing younger because you've got that experience, and it's hard to play older when you're younger.
I started getting interested in the craft and watching old movies, and they're the ones that reach out to me the most - films like 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'On the Waterfront.' So I start watching all of these, and I was getting educated, and I started being interested in this acting thing, if that's what they call it.
Where I'm from, to do acting is not heard of. Being one of the lads and all, you don't just go, 'Oh, I want to be an actor'. They'd laugh and joke about it.
I was a mess-up in school, a big mess-up. I was into history and English, because there were always stories, like 'Dracula' and World War II. I've never read a book, though. Never.
I've been lucky to be educated by watching the old and the great movies, working with good filmmakers, and being educated on sets.
I just think the more you're in front of camera, the better: my main aim is just to tell the truth, be natural, and believe in what I'm doing, and hopefully that comes across as a rawness.
I look like a kid onscreen in most movies.
I've stayed friends with the boys I've known since I was 10.
With this acting and this lifestyle, your privacy does get taken a little.
One day, you're talking with Tom Hardy; the next day, you have Nicole Kidman kissing your feet. I never thought I'd be able to say that in my lifetime, Nicole Kidman kissing my feet. It's mad.
Every actor wants to show a good and deep range, so you look at all the elements here, and you make a conscious choice of where you want to go as a performer.
Boxing is something I'm very into.
Where I'm from, you focus on finishing school. Even finishing college is seen as a stretch - you just get a job after school, and that's it.
I do reach out to lads that I know who are my age: people like Charlie Plummer or Timothee Chalamet.
I'm trying to keep a good record and do interesting movies with interesting filmmakers.
I thought I was going to be a footballer or a boxer or something like that - I was into sports.
I want stories that tackle things.
I want to get a wolf and an eagle.
After everything I've been through - the foster care, the losing my parents and stuff like that, I was never one to kind of go, 'I'm gonna just not try.' I used it all as ammunition.
Acting is not a thing where I'm from. Finishing school is a big thing. Not a lot of people finish school.
I'm a guy with simple tastes.
It's very important for me to show younger kids that when opportunities are there, you have to jump on them.
I don't think you ever really get used to it, do you? There's always another little level of shock in it and of being starstruck at the people you meet. And that's the beauty of it: you're always fascinated, because it's not a normal thing to do, is it, this acting game?
Sometimes a camera comes out and people freeze up a little, and I'm like that with normal cameras, but with a film camera, I feel different.
All I would say is it doesn't matter where you come from. Like, Jim Sheridan comes from the inner city, and he's one of the top ones, a top lad.
Foster care was a big part of my life.
Dior makes me look good, and I make Dior look good.
Boxing isn't a career. Acting is it for me. But they're both very therapeutic.
You kind of know what kind of reaction a Yorgos Lanthimos movie is going to get.
I've actually eaten in The Ivy in London. I love their shepherd's pie.
This industry can take you in and spit you out. It's overwhelming. But I keep my feet on the ground, my Air Max on the gravel.
My mother passed. She passed when I was 10 or 11.
It's a hard thing to find in people: to sit and just be present with someone, even for two minutes.
I grew up in Summerhill in Dublin's inner city, and I came across an open audition, and they were looking for inner city kids who had not acted. I signed up.
I hope I inspire younger ones. Whatever you're into - sports, whatever - just go and do something.
I recently was in the same room as Leonardo DiCaprio, and one of my favorite movies is 'Basketball Diaries.' That movie hits home for me in so many ways, and in that moment, I was like, 'I have to thank this dude.' So I did.
I want a happy family.
Everyone wants to be Batman; I want to be Robin. I'll make Robin cool. Make him legit.
People can get lost in the movie star world. They can't check in with reality, whereas I live at home with me girl, surrounded by real people.
It is hard to keep your head sometimes. I just make sure I surround myself with good people.
Dublin's a great place. It really is. It's a great place. And Ireland, especially, is a great place. I've realized that growing up more. I'm loving my country more as I'm getting older.
I want to play someone like Billy the Kid.
Chris O'Dowd's a legend, isn't he? I like him.
In any inner city, there's not a lot of opportunities, and you really have to dig out and chase what you want to do, 'cos it's not handed to you, so.
I did Christmas plays at school, but they banned me because I was messing about. And I was like, 'Ah, why?' Because I was getting attention, everyone was laughing at me and I was loving it, I thought, 'This feels good!'
I always believed that I could be one of the greatest actors of my generation.
It's not often you get to sit in front of Nicole Kidman in your boxers with a big bowl of spaghetti.
I'm always in touch with where I'm from.
'Intermission' was my favourite film.
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