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Fame is not my version of success. For me, it’s being happy and making sure everyone around me is too.

— Barry Keoghan

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Heroin came into Dublin, and it caught every family. My mother was one of the unlucky ones. She got caught on it, then she passed away.

I always put a smile on her face. But yeah. It would be a surprise. I had no sense of doing acting until the time of 16 or 17, and she was gone by then. She'd be pretty proud.

Sometimes a camera comes out and people freeze up a little, and I'm like that with normal cameras, but with a film camera I feel different. My main aim is just to tell the truth, be natural and believe in what I'm doing, and hopefully that comes across as a rawness.

I was looking for something. I was looking to mess around, to joke. And get paid! But on a deeper level, it was very therapeutic for me. I could be someone else. I think you get to release a few of your problems there through being another person.

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