Barry Keoghan’s doctor couldn’t say whether he’d live or die from flesh-eating infection
Saltburn star Barry Keoghan reportedly suffered from a flesh-eating disease before shooting The Banshees Of Inisherin
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Today’s news is that we almost lost Barry Keoghan before ever seeing him slurp up Jacob Elordi’s sperm-tinted bathwater. The actor reveals in a new GQ profile that shortly before filming The Banshees Of Inisherin, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, he suffered from a case of necrotizing fasciitis. If you’re not a doctor or a Grey’s Anatomy fan, this flesh-eating bacterial infection with a one-in-five mortality rate. Yet Barry Keoghan lived to tell the tale.
It was touch and go for a second, though, it sounds like: Keoghan remembers asking his doctors for reassurance that he wasn’t going to die and getting the response, “Well, we don’t know.” Keoghan was visited in the hospital by his Banshees director Martin McDonagh, who apparently encouraged him to “remember this when you’ve been nominated for an Oscar”—a prophecy that did indeed come to pass.
“I’m not sure if he was on a lot of meds, but he seemed to shrug it off,” McDonagh recalls in the profile. “We were only about four days out from shooting, and his arm was puffed up. But he was like, ‘Yeah, no, I’m going to be fine—I’ll see you on Tuesday.’ I went to the hospital thinking, Shit—is he going to die? Let alone, is he going to make the movie. But I came out of there energized and looking forward to it.”
Keoghan was at risk for amputation, but he managed to survive with nothing more than a scar winding its way up his arm, which probably just adds to the Irish star’s singular look. These days, Saltburn has made him an object of lust, but he’s well aware that he’s been “looked at as the weird-looking guy, the unique feckin’ freaky little freak man-child, freak child-man, whatever you want to call it.” He’s now transitioning out of his “Little freak child-man era,” he says, “And now I’m just Man. Freak-Man. Man-Freak.” Man-Freak And The Flesh-Eating Disease: coming soon to a theater near you.
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Glad he came out on the other side of it. So looking forward to seeing more of his Joker.
Glad he made it
It’s impossible for me to read the words “The Banshees Of Inisherin” without attempting some atrocious Irish accents.But yes, I’m glad to hear Keoghan survived and kept all his limbs.
Really didn’t need to write that first sentence.
I’d be fascinated to get a look at his genealogy chart. He could be Björk’s brother, son or something.
Icelandic-grade inbreeding would explain a lot.
He’ Irish…
Yeah that shit’s rough. My friend’s mother got something like it swimming in Hawaii and had her arm amputated before she died. Glad that didn’t happen here. He’ll be a good Joker.
Yeah my Dad’s old work partner died from this. Scary-ass shit.
It’s what killed Jeff Hanneman from Slayer who apparently contracted said flesh-eating virus after being bitten by a spider in Central America.As far as deaths go it’s appropriately fucking metal!
Poor dude, during or after Eternals filming he was attached and his face cut up and left bleeding, now this… Irish Strong…