It’s gory Keoghan! Actor in a shocking vampire photoshoot
BARRY Keoghan posed for his most daring shoot to date as he embraced a vampire-theme for his cover spread with W Magazine.
The actor, 31, was instructed by his Saltburn director Emerald Fennell, who took inspiration from the famous line in their film, ‘Lucky for you, I’m a vampire.’
For one striking snap, Barry posed shirtless and bathed in a pool of blood.
The father-of-one donned a pair of latex gloves complete with fake nails, a chunky pearl necklace and red lipstick.
He took things further in the next photograph, posing as though he’d been eating a heart on a plate covered in fake blood.
The shoot also show’s Keoghan reading Twilight and holding a Buffy The Vampire Slayer mug as well as modelling a suit of armour that would allow a vampire to go outside in the daylight. In Saltburn, Barry’s character Oliver insists he’s okay with performing sex acts when a girl is menstruating because he’s a ‘vampire’. Ms Fennell explained the inspiration for the shoot: ‘Because Barry’s so theatrical and such an amazing physical performer, I wanted to make that literal and have him as a vampire living his everyday life in London.
‘Which means reading Twilight, watching old Hammer horror films, and going to the supermarket in armour and a balaclava so he doesn’t get burned to a crisp.’
In a shocking scene in the movie Keoghan strips naked and dances around to Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Murder on the Dance Floor.
Speaking about the reaction to the nudity, he said: ‘I didn’t know I could do something like that, and to see it play back on-screen gave me a massive amount of confidence.
‘So maybe there’s something down that route I can take.’
Ms Fennell was keen not to push him into doing anything he felt uncomfortable with, saying: ‘The thing for me is, if you want to make stuff that’s close to the bone, that’s outrageous and fun and camp and silly, you need to create a space where people feel like they’re safe.’