Barry Keoghan Is Different in Every Way

The actor has done the best with what he's got, and what he didn't get. The way his face contorts ever so slightly to show you mischief or madness or melancholy, or maybe all three at once. The way he can take the piss out of people. The way he can take the piss out of himself. Whatever it is, it has to be something, because people—directors, other actors, movie audiences, awards voters—love him. He is the current Joker in the Batman movie franchise. He is a member of the Marvel universe (with Eternals). He's in a new World War II miniseries produced by Spielberg and Hanks. And in Saltburn, the new film from writer- director Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman), he appears in every frame and gives a performance that will go down in movie history as the one that made Barry Keoghan a star.

View in Browser  SHOP EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBE Barry Keoghan Is Different in Every Way The actor has done the best with what he's got, and what he didn't get. The way his face contorts ever so slightly to show you mischief or madness or melancholy, or maybe all three at once. The way he can take the piss out of people. The way he can take the piss out of himself. Whatever it is, it has to be something, because people—directors, other actors, movie audiences, awards voters—love him. He is the current Joker in the Batman movie franchise. He is a member of the Marvel universe (with Eternals). He's in a new World War II miniseries produced by Spielberg and Hanks. And in Saltburn, the new film from writer- director Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman), he appears in every frame and gives a performance that will go down in movie history as the one that made Barry Keoghan a star. Read More Trump Has Been Spoiling for This Fight the Whole Time I am no fan of gag orders per se, but this one had to happen. Read More The Story Behind Barry Keoghan's Batman Audition Tape "I just wanted swag to come across." Read More The Water Flosser That Will Impress Even Your Dentist Many of us fear dentists, whether it's from a childhood trauma or from Steve Martin's performance as Orin, the sadistic dentist in Little Shop of Horrors who enjoys performing slow and painful root canals on his patients (not to mention abusing laughing gas in a Lynchian type of way). If you want to take good care of those chompers and avoid the whirr and buzz of those medieval torture devices—I mean, dental devices—then The Philips Sonicare Power Flosser 3000 is a good way to start. With its simple and portable design, it's like your own personal dental cleaning that you can toss in a dopp kit and take with you anywhere. Read More A$AP Rocky's 35th Birthday Outfit is a Gift for All of Us Consider this a Libra-season lesson in dressing up—but not too much. Read More The Shiny, Silvery Retro Runner Is Back From the 2000s—and Better Than Ever Two decades after its heyday, the tech-y sneaker renaissance is underway. Read More Yusef Salaam and the Act of Forgiveness As one of the Central Park Five, he served seven years in prison for a horrific crime he didn't commit. Now he wants to serve the city that condemned him. "I was a pariah. They said I was born a mistake. I'm not a mistake," Salaam tells me. "And I think that what I have been through gives me perspective on what people go through in life. I never thought about politics or holding elective office until recently, but I feel that this—I guess you might call it empathy—will be helpful to me as I serve my community. If, as Nietzsche says, you can find the why, then you can live any how. We all need a reason to live. This is mine. I was supposed to go through what I went through." Read More Follow Us Unsubscribe | Privacy Notice | CA Notice at Collection Esquire is a publication of Hearst Magazines. ©2023 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779