Barry Keoghan says becoming father while shooting Saltburn was ‘best time’ of his life

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Barry Keoghan has said that becoming a father for the first time while in the middle of shooting Saltburn was the “best time” of his life. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free Sharing the inspiration behind the name Brando, Keoghan said he loves the late Godfather actor Marlon Brando, and thought it was a “quite cool” first name. “He’ll probably have a toothpick when I get home!” “Aww, God,” Keoghan said, imagining what Brando will say to him when he grows up: “‘Dad, you’re a s*** actor. In The Independent’s four-star review of the film, chief film critic Clarisse Loughrey writes: “Barry Keoghan, one of our greatest working weird guys, stars as the canniest of cuckoos in the nest, someone embedded in a family of blue bloods so used to casually manipulating others that they’re utterly defenceless when the tables are turned on them.” At the end of the film, viewers watch Keoghan dancing around the Saltburn mansion in his birthday suit to Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor”, moving through the grand country house, between its sprawling staircases and grand hallways.