Barry Keoghan on The Banshees of Inisherin and Playing the Joker in The Batman

With writer-director Martin McDonagh’s fantastic film, The Banshees of Inisherin, now playing in theaters, I recently conducted an extended and wide-ranging interview with an actor that has really impressed me the past few years, Barry Keoghan. Even though Keoghan is a young actor, he’s already accumulated an impressive resume that includes Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Chloé Zhao’s Eternals, and Matt Reeves’ The Batman, where he made the most of his limited screentime as the Joker. In The Banshees of Inisherin, Keoghan delivers another captivating performance, playing opposite Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, and Kerry Condon and holding his own in every scene. The Banshees of Inisherin takes place on a small island off the west coast of Ireland in the 1920’s where everyone knows everyone. It’s also the place where two lifelong friends Padraic (Farrell) and Colm (Gleeson) meet every afternoon at the local pub to talk. But when Gleeson suddenly puts an