Irish film crews got a massive thumbs up from Barry Keoghan as he hailed The Banshees of Inisherin as a "piece of history" during his stint on the beloved Youtube series Hot Ones.
Keoghan, who had everyone in stitches during his appearance this week, let slip that one of his sequences didn't make it into the Oscar-nominated film.
When quizzed on how he feels about his work being cut from movies, Keoghan light-heartedly claimed his performances usually make the final cut, but confessed that director Martin McDonagh dropped one of his scenes from The Banshees of Inisherin.
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He said: "I'm going to sound cocky but they don't usually cut my scenes. They keep them in there and they wish that they had more," Keoghan said flashing a grin.
"But there was a scene in Banshees that didn't need to be there. It's quite bleak, I'm coming out of the bedroom and my father's just molested me and it's quite out there. They cut that but I don't think we needed to see it anyways. You don't question that when you're working with Martin McDonagh. You just go and let him take the lead."
Keoghan lavished praise on McDonagh for his outstanding work and dubbed Banshees filmed entirely in Ireland and McDonagh's first Irish-set film a "piece of history". Speaking proudly, he noted: "Filming in Ireland with Martin McDonagh was quite a moment. It was his first movie in Ireland; a piece of history."
"Ireland doesn't look like that everywhere by the way. That's a special part of Ireland. That looked fake. Even I was looking around going 'where the feck are the leprechauns'."
Sean Evans, the host of Hot Ones, also asked Keoghan about the differences between working with Irish film crews and American ones. "We don't finish our sentences," Keoghan quipped.
"Nah, the Irish crew are brilliant. Everyone knows each other, everyone's a cousin of one another. It's quite intimate."
When talking about why Irish fighters might dominate in boxing, Keoghan credited his homeland: "It's the culture," he declared. "The fighting spirit and the troubles that we went through."
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