Barry Keoghan was so nervous meeting Ringo Starr he ‘couldn't look at him'
The 32-year-old is set to play the drummer in an upcoming four-part Beatles biopic.
Barry Keoghan has said he was so nervous meeting Ringo Starr that he couldn't even look at him.
The 32-year-old Dubliner is set to play The Beatles drummer in an upcoming four-part biopic.
'I sat opposite him and I could not look at him because I was nervous and his wife Barbara was there and she said, 'You can look at him',' he said at Fast Net Film Festival in West Cork this weekend.
'Every time I looked at him I saw myself in his glasses.
'I said to him: 'I am not coming here to quiz you. I am coming to find out what made you and how the contrast was going back to Liverpool after Beatlemania,' he continued.
'We can all do imitation but I wanted to know where it came from. He was so on the money.'
Ringo Starr
He described doing 'Beatles Bootcamp' as an 'absolute joy', sharing that he's been learning to walk and talk like the 84-year-old.
'It's a place of failing, a place of learning and trying. That's the process I'm in now. It's a playground for me.'
'The drumming is going great,' he continued.
'I've been doing it for like six, seven months. I've got blisters on my hands now.'
Keoghan will star alongside Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison.
Each of the four films, which will focus on one the members of the band, will be released in the same month as part of The Beatles: A Four-Film Cinematic Event.
Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison at the announcement of The Beatles films. Photo: PA
Keoghan has recently starred in box office hits such as Saltburn, The Banshees of Inisherin, and Dunkirk.
Earlier this month, he revealed he was not allowed into a Dublin cinema while attending the premiere of Dunkirk, as he had previously been barred.
During a tour of the city with Hollywood Authentic, Keoghan revealed that he was known to staff in Cineworld, and when he showed up to the Dunkirk premiere, they didn't believe he was in the film.
'This is the main cinema I used to go to, on the mitch from school,' he said of the Parnell Street picture house.
Keoghan went on to explain that when he had no money to pay in he would break in through a back stairway, which eventually got him barred.
'I remember coming to the Dunkirk premiere, and getting in here, and them not knowing that I was in the film.
'They were like, 'You're not allowed in.'
'I said, 'It's my movie, though.'
'They were like, 'No, no. You're not allowed in.'
'It was a whole thing… It was just a turning point for me.'
'All the people in the cinema now, I know,' he added, pointing at a poster of Chris Hemsworth, adding: 'I just worked with him.'
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