#Barry Keoghan Recalls Near-Death Battle With Flesh-Eating Disease Just Before Filming ‘Banshees of Inisherin’

#Barry Keoghan Recalls Near-Death Battle With Flesh-Eating Disease Just Before Filming ‘Banshees of Inisherin’

Barry Keoghan knows what it means to have a brush with death and recounted his near-fatal battle with necrotizing fasciitis in an interview for GQ’s February cover story. He recovered from the infection just days before filming Martin McDonagh‘s 2022 feature The Banshees of Inisherin. Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, necrotizing fasciitis…

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#How Rosamund Pike Prepared for ‘Saltburn’: 2007 Vogues, New Cocktails and a Vacation

#How Rosamund Pike Prepared for ‘Saltburn’: 2007 Vogues, New Cocktails and a Vacation

In Oscar-winning writer-director Emerald Fennell’s twisted thriller Saltburn, Rosamund Pike is the deft comedic counterbalance.  Her character, Elspeth Catton, a wealthy former model and mother to Jacob Elordi’s character, Felix, breaks up the drama with head-turning quips often delivered while lounging around the family’s estate. One such example: “I was a lesbian for a while, you…

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#Telluride Awards Analysis: ‘Saltburn’ Could Return Emerald Fennell and Barry Keoghan to Contention

#Telluride Awards Analysis: ‘Saltburn’ Could Return Emerald Fennell and Barry Keoghan to Contention

Saltburn, the second film written and directed by Emerald Fennell — three years after Promising Young Woman, for which she won the best original screenplay Oscar — had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival’s Palm Theatre on Thursday evening, and certainly left people talking. A pitch-black comedy packed with sex, violence and music, like…

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#Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi Star in Trailer for Emerald Fennell’s Twisted Thriller ‘Saltburn’

#Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi Star in Trailer for Emerald Fennell’s Twisted Thriller ‘Saltburn’

Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi star in the first trailer for Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman follow-up, Saltburn. The Oscar-nominated Keoghan plays Oliver Quick, a student struggling to find his place at Oxford University, while Euphoria star Elordi portrays charming aristocrat Felix Catton. When the two men meet in the mid-2000s, Oliver finds himself drawn…

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