From the villain in ‘Gladiator 2’ to the Joker in Robert Pattinson’s Batman: all of Barry Keoghan’s projects

Surely his name (and his difficult-to-pronounce last name) will sound familiar to you. Barry Keoghan has been one of the nominees for Best Supporting Actor at the last Oscar Awards for ‘Almas en banjo de Inisherin’. Ke Huy Quan was the one who took home the statuette, but this boy born in Dublin 30 years ago has a promising future. And that has not been easy.

He and his brother spent most of their years in foster homes, having lived in as many as 13 different homes in Ireland growing up. His mother died of a heroin overdose when he was just 12, a trauma he spoke about on The Late Late Show in Ireland. “Every family was good to us,” he said. “When you were a child, you don’t know what’s happening. You get attached and then boom, you move and you move again,” he acknowledged in a television interview.
Later he was left in the care of his grandmother and his aunt. His first opportunity to play Barry came through a casting call in a window that he had responded to at age 18 for a small crime film.

The boy began making a name for himself in his country through constant work as an actor in film and television, and His breakthrough came in 2017: that year he played two very different roles in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’ and in ‘The Sacrifice of a Sacred Deer’, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos., along with Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman. Later came more works like ‘American Animals’ and in 2021 premieres ‘Eternals’. And from Marvel it comes later to the other great universe: DC. Last year, in addition to seeing him at work that has given him the nomination as well He had a small but interesting performance in ‘The Batman’: he was the new Joker (and that he auditioned for another role in ‘The Batman’), whom we knew at the end of the film. Then, as we well know, came ‘Inisherin’s Banshee’ and with it her first nomination as well as winning the BAFTA.

What future holds for this Irish actor? Let’s review the jobs that are coming your way.

saltburn

Emerald Fennell has a new movie for this year. In it she has Keoghan and also Jacob elordi (‘Euphoria’), Rosamund Pike and Richard E. Grant among others. The story is a thriller about an aristocratic English family.

billy the kid

The Irish actor will also have a protagonist who is a candy for any actor: Billy the Kid. The director of ‘American Animals,’ which Keoghan also starred in, Bart Layton, is on board to direct the story of America’s notorious outlaw.

the masters of the air

Keoghan will also be inside the new miniseries that Apple TV+ is preparing. Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, producers of the series ‘Blood Brothers’ and ‘The Pacific’, will return with another story set in World War II, centered on airmen risking their lives in the 100th Bomber Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss and triumph. Austin Butler and Callum Turner among others will accompany the Irish actor.

Gladiators 2

It seems that the new peplum will have Irish airs. Now it has been revealed that the young man is in talks to be the villain of the film prepared by Ridley Scott. If this role is finally confirmed, he will undoubtedly be a great opponent for Paul Mescal, the protagonist of the new installment, and also Irish like him. We’ll see if his entry into ‘Gladiator 2’, Máximo’s legacy, is finally made official.

What about the new Joker?

We currently do not know what situation this new Joker will be in within the future of the renewed DC Studios that Peter Safran and James Gunn have been leading for a few months. Hopefully official news will be known soon about this role in the new situation. Although everything indicates that he will be in the second part of ‘The Batman’, confirmation is needed. What we do know is that, with or without the role of the Clown Prince of Crime, the career he has in his future is very suggestive .