Barry Kegan tells how being a father to son Brando has changed him
Barry Kegan
Steve Granitz/FilmMagicBarry Kegan revealed how fatherhood changed him forever.
During a campaign video for the proposed childcare reforms in the UK, involving the UK Foreign Secretary David Lammyposted via Facebook on Friday, Jan. 17, Keoghan, 32, offered rare comments about being the father of 2-year-old son Brando, who he shares with his ex-girlfriend. Alison Sandra.
The Salt burn star told Lammy, 52, that becoming a father made him think deeply about his own parents. “When I got older and had my own son, I realized it was such a hard job for her (Keogan’s mother) and my father. And luckily there was a good care system there, which is very important,” Keoghan said. (Keogan’s mother died of a heroin overdose when the actor was 12. Irish Post.)
“You can use your platform and your profile to shine a light on things and anything to do with children and care, I’m always keen to help and shine a light on that and bring attention to it,” Keoghan added.
Barry Kegan has been candid about his father’s life since he met son Brando with ex-girlfriend Alison Sandra in August 2022. The actor became a father while filming the 2023 hit Saltburn. During an interview with GQ in January 2024, Keoghan recalled that he had been given “the day off” for the birth of Brando. “Good for them! Day off and (…)
Keoghan became a father on the set of 2023 Salt burntelling GQ in an interview in January 2024 that he was given “time off” to give birth to a teenager. “Good for them! A weekend, and immediately night shooting and night feedings — boom!” Keoghan told the publication at the time. “You see me tired. yes Brando. Good old Brando.”
Keoghan’s latest comments come after the star defended himself to his face accusations on the Internet to be a “deceased parent”. During an interview for “The Louis Theroux Podcast” in September 2024, Keoghan acknowledged that online trolls had recently posted insensitive comments.
“There is a lot on the Internet. If I didn’t have tough skin or strength, I wouldn’t be sitting here,” Keoghan told the host. Louis Theroux. “Of course (his childhood) would affect me being a parent if I didn’t have a blueprint to draw from. People just read it (as) laziness and say, “Oh, that’s no excuse for not having a father.” I’m not an absent father.”
The charges are believed to have been trumped up an interview Keoghan gave Entertainment Weekly earlier that month, in which he opened up about his relationship with Brando. “I’ll just say this: I didn’t have a father figure, so even my relationship with my son isn’t exactly a normal father-son relationship, because I don’t have a figure to draw from and lean on,” Keoghan told the publication. at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2024.
BENJAMIN KREMEL / AFP Barry Keoghan responds to accusations that he is a “deadbeat dad”. The 32-year-old Saltburn actor opened up about internet trolls criticizing him as a co-parent to his 2-year-old son Brando during an appearance on the Louis Theroux Podcast in September. “There is a lot on the Internet. If I didn’t have tough skin or (…)
During Keoghan’s conversation with Theroux, 54, he said: “People like to use my son as ammunition or whatever. And it makes me stop, the more attention I (get) lately and the more public I’ve become, the less I’ve posted about my child, because I don’t think it’s fair to put my child online. And because I ran it, people make up the narrative and say, “Absent father, f—, murderous father,” and more heinous things that I’m not even going to repeat. Just the audacity of some people, man. It makes me sick, I’m furious.”
Keoghan and Sandra, a dental nurse and an orthodontist, met in early 2021 before calling it quits in the summer of 2023.
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