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Just as the runners and riders were parading around the paddock, Aaron Taylor-Johnson has sensationally dismounted and stalked back to the changing room, thoughtfully tapping his whip against his thigh. What happened? Did his agent overplay things by sneakily leaking negotiations to the press, hoping the subsequent acclaim would nail down a whopping fee? Did they get their bluff called? Who knows? Either way, producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, keepers of the Bond flame in their legendary Eon offices in…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe BBC has defended its reporter, who gave an “uncomfortable” interview with Andrew Scott at the Baftas last weekend.The red carpet interview in question quickly went viral as viewers criticised the BBC’s Colin Paterson for repeatedly asking Scott about Barry Keoghan’s nude scene in Emerald Fennell’s film, Saltburn.Scott, 47, who was snubbed for his lauded turn in Andrew Haigh’s drama…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIn the world of Hollywood, the first sign of overexposure is when other celebrities start being asked questions about you. Why, for example, does presumed Best Actress winner and all-round superstar Emma Stone keep being asked about Taylor Swift? Why did Martin Scorsese have to constantly talk about superheroes? And why is Barry Keoghan’s penis a hot topic of conversation on red…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe BBC has defended its reporter who gave an “uncomfortable” interview with Andrew Scott at the Baftas last weekend.The red carpet interview in question quickly went viral as viewers criticised the BBC’s Colin Paterson for repeatedly asking Scott about Barry Keoghan’s nude scene in Emerald Fennell’s film, Saltburn.Scott, 47, who was snubbed for his lauded turn in Andrew Haigh’s drama…

Just when we were getting sick of the Marvel Cinematic Universe … Sam Mendes comes along with the Beatles Cinematic Universe. It’s a quartet of interlocking movies about the Fab Four, each centred on one band member, and with the fascinating promise of overlaps and POV shifts, perhaps inspired by Lucas Belvaux’s triple-decker Trilogy pictures or Joao Canijo’s mirror image films Bad Living and Living Bad. Mendes’s moptop movies may tag quadrilaterally around key moments … Shea Stadium, the Maureen Cleave interview,…

The digital cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue features a conveyor belt of the hottest stars of the season. Pedro Pascal and Colman Domingo glide across the screen in well-tailored tuxedos, chatting about reading the National Enquirer. Jodie Comer stands tall in trophy gold next to Lily Gladstone, stunning in a suit of her own. And at the end of the 11-person lineup is Barry Keoghan — stark naked and cheesing at the camera. Presenting the 30th annual #VFHollywood Issue, our cheekiest yet, starring Bradley…

Director Emerald Fennell had great success with her movie Promising Young Woman, and her most recent release Saltburn went viral, especially once it was streaming with an Amazon Prime subscription. Perhaps the most talked about movie was Barry Keoghan's bathtub scene, where he drank the bath water of Jacob Elordi's character Felix after he'd masturbated in the tub. Fennell recently directed Keoghan for a cover shoot, where he made a funny clip when asked to one again shoot with a bath tub, albeit with a twist.Keoghan…

Eleven minutes into the latest episode of Hot Ones with Barry Keoghan, the actor still has high hopes — even after the hot wings he’s eating has forced him to take his shirt off. “I think I’m going to make it to the end,” he says, putting a wing down, while puckering his mouth a little. But as the “Scoville Level” heat index increases, his optimism burns up. Within two minutes of his boast, he’s breathing fire. Nevertheless, Keoghan musters some insightful answers during the interview, discussing Dunkirk, Masters…

Fair warning that there are MAJOR SPOILERS for Saltburn's ending mentioned throughout the article.To say that Emerald Fennell’s black comedy Saltburn had memorable scenes would be an understatement. The internet’s obsession and all of those memes had to do with the Golden Globe-nominated film’s most outrageous moments all involving Barry Keoghan’s character baring all. With one of the film’s most controversial scenes featuring Oliver doing a nude dance, the Irish actor dishes on his rising sex symbol status.At the end of…

Barry Keoghan is opening up about a past health scare that almost cost him his life. During a new interview with GQ, the Saltburn actor revealed that he developed necrotizing fasciitis — a flesh-eating bacterial infection — in 2022, just days before he filmed The Banshees of Inisherin. During the interview, the GQ writer noticed a “gnarly scar tissue that winds its way up his arm like snake tattoo” and asked the actor about it. After explaining that he had contracted necrotizing fasciitis, Keoghan said that…