Barry Keoghan, who starred in the controversial film Saltburn, opened up about accusations that he used a prosthetic to enlarge his private parts in the film’s scenes.
The scene in which Keoghan dances completely naked through the Saltburn mansion went viral, and the song chosen as its soundtrack, Murder on the Dancefloor by singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, topped the charts in the UK.
But the scene had an unexpected side effect for the Irish actor, who started to be accused of using prosthetics to enlarge his private parts, which he denied in a recent interview on the podcast of host Louis Theroux.
“No, wait, enhanced!? It was all me. [The scene] was something I really didn’t blink for. I would blink if it didn’t fit into the story,” the actor explained, adding that it wasn’t originally planned for him to be completely naked in the scene, but he and director Emerald Fennell decided it would have a greater impact if he wasn’t dressed.
“I remember me and Emerald talking about it, and it started with my clothes [on], and she said: ‘We just need to make this a little more personal. He has this mansion at the end, it’s his space,’” Keoghan recounted.
“My hesitation was with [the] dancing. I don’t like to dance, you know. But if it’s needed, when it’s the character, again, that’s the kind of thing, when it’s not you, you’ll do it if it feels right and moves the script and story forward. But yes, I don’t like to dance.”
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