Barry Keoghan wasn’t afraid to take on anything “Salt burns.”

On Monday’s episode of “The Louis Theroux Podcast,” The actor was asked about the scene at the end of the 2023 film, where his character, Oliver Quick, dances completely naked.

When Louis Theroux mentioned that people had speculated that he had used a “prosthetic penis” or that parts of his body had been “enhanced,” Keoghan quickly shut down the matter.

“Improved? Who said that? No, wow,” he said quickly.

“It was all me. (…) it was something that I didn’t really mind, you know, I would bat my eyelids if it didn’t fit the story.

The scene in question shows Keoghan’s character dancing triumphantly. around an area he just inherited it by exploding “Murder on the Dance Floor” by Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

The 32-year-old father-of-one then detailed the conversation he had with director Emerald Fennell about the scene where they felt his character needed to show “a little more ownership” over the space.

“He kind of has this mansion at the bottom, that’s his space. And when you have that space… we all do it at home: we walk around naked, you know what I mean? Because we’re comfortable and it’s our environment,” the “Killing of a Sacred Deer” star explained.

Keoghan even saw the scene as a work of art, telling Theroux: “It’s just beautiful to watch that (…) but to watch someone’s body running through rooms like that, it It’s almost like a painting.”

The actor previously spoke about the scene with EW, telling the outlet that it seemed “good” to me to film.

“At first it was that I wasn’t wearing any clothes. I kinda am, ehhh,” Keoghan continued.

“But after the first take, I was ready to go. I said to myself, “Here we go again. Let’s go again. You kind of forget, because such a comfortable environment is created, and it gives you the right to say, “All right, it’s about the story now.” »

In fact, he was so comfortable that the sequence was filmed 11 times.

“A walkthrough didn’t have that post-coital triumph. If we’ve all done our jobs properly, you’re on Oliver’s side,” Fennell previously explained.

“You don’t care what he does, you want him to do it. You’re both completely repulsed and sort of on his side.

“It’s that kind of dance with the devil,” she continued. “It’s like, ‘F–k. Okay, let’s go. And so in the end, there needed to be a triumph, a post-coital victory, a desecration.

Keoghan previously revealed that the erotic cemetery scene, where his character simulates sex with a grave, was completely improvised Also.

“I wanted to see what Oliver would do next,” Keoghan says Deadline on the 2024 Golden Globes red carpet. “I wanted to see what the next level of obsession was.”

“And by that (I mean), I just wanted the camera to roll,” the “Dunkirk” star continued. “It’s not about anticipating it or rehearsing it and what happened happened. It was a take, and I think it was fair. This moved the story forward.

“Salt burn» is available for streaming on Amazon Prime.