Eternals star Barry Keoghan reportedly hospitalized and left with “serious facial injuries” after assault
The MCU newbie was found outside of his hotel in Galway, Ireland
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Eternals star Barry Keoghan was briefly hospitalized after being physically assaulted in Galway, Ireland. As reported by Independent.ie, Keoghan was found outside of Galway’s G Hotel with serious facial injuries “in the early hours of last Sunday.” The Irish publication reports that he was taken to Galway University Hospital and treated for injuries that included cuts on his face. He’s since been released.
A local told the publication that “it was known he was staying up in the G Hotel, which is one of the poshest hotels in the city, but no one heard anything about any assault or anything and it was obviously kept very quiet.” A spokesperson for Garda (the police service of Ireland) told Independent that “Gardaí did attend an incident at a hotel in the Wellpark area of Galway City on Sunday August 15, 2021 after 3.30am.” The actor has yet to comment on the assault and has been posting unrelated stories on his Instagram, including Entertainment Weekly’s exclusive picture of The Eternals and an image of “Remember why you started” handwritten in cursive.
The Eternals was filming from July 2019 until February 2020 in London, Oxford, England, and the Canary Islands. The film is set to arrive on November 5 as part of Marvel Studios’ Phase Four. Keoghan will play Druig, “an Eternal with the ability to manipulate other people’s thoughts” who is “aloof and a bit of a loner.”
“When I arrived and put it on for the first time, it was kind of nice to walk out and see the rest of the cast’s reaction. They were like, ‘Whoa!’ It’s a weird feeling to see yourself like that. As soon as you put the boots on your posture transforms. You definitely notice how your whole demeanor and everything just changes,” Keoghan told EW about starring in his first MCU movie.
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The one actor who would still get all the same roles with scars on his face
He’ll be the Irish Tommy Flanagan. “You tried to kill me, but you only succeeded in making me look cool as hell.”
tupically Glasgow smiles are left on people you intend on living and showing others how ruthless you are since generally it wouldn’t be a fatal wound. its like the part of gangs of ny when bill brands Amsterdam, “He ain’t earned death! No, he’ll walk amongst you marked with shame […] God’s only man, spared by the Butcher!”
im sorry, but i struggle to believe that a man name tommy flanagan is not irish. thats like shamus patrick lucky-charms, as far as cues go.
So his name should be Angus MacHaggis Usquaebach Burns?
You’re telling me this guy is named “Tommy Flanagan” and he’s NOT Irish?
Nay ye tosser, that lad is a Scot.
Tommy Flanagan isn’t Irish?
“Start with Ezra Miller, then Tye Sheridanize him by 10% or so.”
Kick up the 4d3d3d3 and give me a hat wobble.
Now he I can get into
Is there any way to generate a nude Tayne?
Now Tayne I can get into
Throw in a dash of Miles Teller for the scars and vaguely melted look, plus a hint of Droopy Dog and I think we’ve got ourselves a winner.
Add in a slight dash of Pete Holmes.
I’m still waiting for that Ezra Miller ‘Billy Drago’ biopic.
“we’re sorry lad, but your countenance is simply too frightful to portray this dead-eyed dog killer”
I heard they were wearing MAGA hats and brandishing rope and bleach.
You jest, but people from Ireland are saying this is one of the safest, wealthiest spots in the country and it’s much more likely that he was just so drunk that he took a nasty fall and banged himself up pretty badly and was just too embarrassed to admit it (his hotel called the ambulance, not him).
That story doesn’t track either because no one in Ireland is ever embarrassed about being too drunk
Can confirm, I was just in this neighborhood of Galway right before Covid hit – it’s cute, expensive, and touristy. This would be like getting mugged in, I dunno, Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard.
But it was known he was there, so he could have been targeted. Less likely a mugging.
Those posh New England places you mention are prime shark territory. Getting mugged by a shark is no joke. The thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a
doll’s eyes. When he comes at you, he doesn’t even seem to be living, until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then, ah then,
you hear that terrible high-pitched screaming.
I always wondered if the shark is screaming somehow or if you, the victim, are already screaming but just became aware of it. Good speech but weird and I’m guessing not super factual. But Melville got a lot wrong about whales and Moby Dick’s still good.
It is a nice area, but Galway is small. It’s about 20 minutes walk from some not-so-nice areas.
Martha stewart will shiv you with the dearest little hand-crocheted shiv cozy. it will pierce your heart…and your kidneys.
… then braise the kidneys in red wine with a little garlic and tarragon
As someone who goes to Nantucket a lot and has family living and buried within a few hundred yards of The G, no one will ever mistake Well Park, Renmore, or Mervue for Main Street in Nantucket. This reeks of targeting.
“This would be like getting mugged in, I dunno, Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard”If you listen to Alan Dershowitz, what Larry David did to him on Martha’s Vineyard was worse than getting mugged and curb stomped.
Maybe he knew the attacker…
“This would be like getting mugged in, I dunno, Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard.”
And?
If he were that drunk, it’s possible he would legitimately not know what happened….
He could have had a dispute with his escort or dealer.
Surely not in front of the hotel though? Seems like it would happen in the hotel room.
Them whacky Nigerian bros are at it again!
Don’t know anything about this guy but I will admit, his face is very punchable
Enh, not as funny when someone is actually beaten up.(Unless it happens to Miles Teller.)
True, now I feel bad. Damn you for making me feel shame
Not to beat you over the head about it, but yeah jokes about punchable faces are a little on the nose.
Did you type that out with your cute little red hat on?
Great actor, weird take!
I wouldn’t wish to cause him harm, but if his neckerchief were to be safely removed from around his neck and then torn asunder, it could only be for the betterment of mankind.
Neckerchiefery related crimes are on the rise in the ye ol Emerald Isle.
I was going to call you an asshole because it looks like he’s just being a little stylish with his mask, but the pic is from 2019.
Ah, the subjunctive mood. Would that it were more common these days.
Would that it were so simple.
Unless the neckerchief is there as a result of some sort of The Green Ribbon situation, in which case his head falling off might alarm some folks.
While it might cause some immediate alarm, I feel like when given consideration people would come to view that as the superior option to the neckerchief.
That there is an ascot, you uncultured philistine!
Is this a good time to mention that it might not be a traditional neck kerchief – it could be a mask he just pulled down for the photos?
I believe it is an ascot.
Praying he won’t end up with a wired jaw and later married to Kim Kardashian.(Seriously though, glad he is doing ok)
‘dat azzzzzzzzzzzz tho…
I guess the first scene in “Eternals 2″ will now involve Druig being attacked by a wampa.
I’m looking forward to his awkward cameo in the Eternals Holiday Special, where they just slather him in apricot pancake-makeup and shine a klieg light directly into his face.
As any good actor knows, you go to the funeral home to get gruesome repairs.
Clare Grogan was injured in a bar fight a few months before filming “Gregory’s Girl.” Makeup artists used mortician’s wax to cover up the damage.For years I assumed that the name of her band (Altered Images) had something to do with this incident, but that doesn’t seem t0 be the case.I’m sorry, what were we talking about?I hope he recovers quickly and fully. He’s a good actor and seems like a decent guy who beat some long odds.
Star given just for the mere mention of Clare Grogan!
I might watch that.
The doctors said that he had an Enternal injury.
Honestly, I can see slapping someone who wears a dicky, but punching or cutting them is just going too far.
That’s an ascot, not a dicky, you uncouth ruffian!
Well, your as just cot laid out from this uncouth ruffian, dicky!
I’m more of a low-born wastrel than uncouth ruffian…but yeah, I’m not up on my archaic formalwear.
I was going to give him a pass because I thought it was handkerchief that was used as face covering that was hastily tucked into his collar, but googling has revealed this picture was taken pre-pandemic. Why an ugly looking white ascot with a white shirt?! And why is the knot showing in the back?! I’m not against ascots but the execution is lacking here.
I was going to call you an asshole because it looks like he’s just being a little stylish with his mask, but the pic is from 2019.
Calm with Horses was a good film he was in.
In the attackers’ defense, they totally thought he was Ezra Miller.
Someone leaked a little bit of the Spider-Man trailer, and then a Marvel actor is hospitalized after being injured?
And here I thought the reports of Kevin Feige being the industry’s mafia boss were exaggerated for comedy…
Gay bashing.
was he gay bashed? or mistakenly gay bashed?
Well it serves him right for stealing Dev Patel’s horse, cursing Colin Farrell’s children with a supernatural disease, and fighting with Cillian Murphy during a perilous maritime rescue operation.
I don’t think there’s ever a bad time for fighting with Cillian Murphy.
But he did help clean up Chernobyl so we probably owe him.
If he himself isn’t commenting on it, I’m sure he’ll be fine.
Two things – The G is on the site of a fertilizer factory, so the atmosphere is generally full of crap, but the bar scenes from The Guard were filmed in this hotel. As someone who spent a lot of time in the immediate area around the hotel different times over 40 years, it is a weird place to get attacked. Sounds targeted as hell.
GALWAY! I’m Irish, sir. Racism is part of my culture!
The Guard!!!SUCH an UNDERRATED film. Love that flick.
Latte’s my drink!
horrible news. hopefully the full truth of this matter is revealed.
Obviously I hope he has a swift and speedy recovery and that any perpetrators involved in this are brought to justice.But goddamn, that ascot is not doing him any favours.
Some people can pull off an ascot (e.g. Cary Elwes). Keoghan is not one of them.(Neither am I, for the record)
I have absolutely no doubt that an ascot would look utterly ridiculous on me, FWIW. Hence my wise decision to never ever wear one.
Within the first ten minutes of being in Galway, a knife fight broke out right in front of me, apropos of nothing. Nothing obvious, anyway. Keoghan is so scary looking! He was perfect in Sacred Deer (not just because of that), but I worry about him having a career that doesn’t get reduce him to playing frightening freaks.
Character acting is respectable.
Is there any official or witness reports that this was an assault and not just the actor falling off a balcony or something? The police said ‘incident’ which is kind of vague. Hell, putting ‘incident’ in the headline rather than ‘assault’ would be more accurate and might get more clicks for the mystery of it all.
Falling off a balcony would probably also involve broken bones, although that is also possible as we don’t know all the information.
Jesus Christ, the comments are pure AIDS.I don’t know who hurt you people, but so much joking about a dude who was just physically attacked with a knife and his face sliced open in multiple wounds sounds like you’ve got some issues to address. Even as a joke, his neckerchief was the problem? Jesus.Y’all are fucking damaged.
*canceraids- the AV Club
Your pearl clutching has been duly noted.
Not saying you are wrong but I haven’t seen any details on the attack, let alone that a knife was involved
He’s tweeted a couple of photos recently and doesn’t look like anyone laid a finger on him, but of course they could be from a few days ago. Kind of weird that there’s been no follow up.