Barry Keoghan Confesses He Would not Have “Regular” Relationship With Son

Life doesn’t precisely imitate artwork for Barry Keoghan.

The Saltburn star shared that his unconventional relationship along with his 2-year-old son Brando—who he shares with ex Alyson Kierans—made it exhausting for him to attract on private expertise when making ready for on-screen fatherhood in his new drama, Hen.

“I did not have a father determine rising up, so even my relationship with my son is not fairly of the conventional father-son relationship,” Keoghan, 31, advised Leisure Weekly in an interview revealed Sept. 12, “as a result of I haven’t got that determine to attract expertise from and to base it on. Love, you do not want something to attract from, love is pure, and so I am not on about that, however I am on about little stuff like instructing your son this or instructing your daughter that.”

So when it got here to moving into character, the Oscar-nominated actor—who went public along with his romance with Sabrina Carpenter in February 2024—took a extra uncommon strategy.