Barry Keoghan gets the February GQ Cover.

Which begs the question…why?

Nice body, big dick, but the face just makes me cringe. Unlike Jeremy Allen White, he can't pull sexy off.

meh.

He’s ugly hot but so fuckable.

Gosh, isn't he just the quirkiest?

Needs a bag over his head. Super fug and exudes a super fug personality too.

He is desperate to be considered a sex symbol post-Saltburn and being around the beautiful Jacob Elordi

Pack him up and send him back! Along with Mescal.

Does he own a meth laboratory? His face says yes…

Why is there a pigeon on his shoulder? They're the rats of the sky.

He kind of reminds me of Benedict Cumberbatch, weird, ugly face but people still lose their minds.

He was kind of cute in Banshees of Inisherin, but he looks awful in that GQ spread. He's probably one of those people who can look hot one moment and then fuggo the next. Also, he looks better on live film than in photos. And the short hair is doing him no favors.

His mother died of an OD in poverty-stricked ireland, so he's probably a fetal alcohol syndrome baby, which would explain the piggy eyes and the stunted growth.

I can't believe a professional photographer was paid thousands of dollars for that photo shoot. I worked with Kerry Condon after her win, and she said that he loved to party almost every night of shooting.

Yeah! I'm no longer the biggest fug in Hollywood !

I'm sure this cover-shoot and interview was planned out months ago (as they always are), when his agent expected him to nab an Ocsar nomination for Saltburn. He must've thought this would be great publicity for his client, and win over Oscar voters. Unfortunately, he and the film were passed over.

The unfuckable and unfucked bitter fugly trolls are unanimous in their seething anger over young fug Barry getting his 15 minutes of fame and improbable game. HISSSSSSSSSSSSSS

HISSSSSSSSSSS

HISSSSSSSSSSS

He will age poorly.

He already looks rough at 31. I think he might end up looking LESS freaky with some age on him.

R16 You're probably right about that

He just needs a nose job.

Sorry, but this has to be said: he has the perfect face for modelling burkas. Still, I will concede this: he is a good actor. Just not a handsome, sexy or charismatic one.

Doesn't good acting and success in big budget cinema require a certain charisma?

Looks like he's had some micro-tweaks to the face, and he's working out. But the romcoms will not follow.

I think he's quite good, and the very least sort of good is plenty rare. He's much better than any of the big names in Hollywood, few of whom are much to look at. Since it's his looks that offend so many, I think an odd looking guy with a surprise body, and a face that shifts and surprises: curious and ugly one moment, then oddly sexy, then attractive in an odd way, then something else...that's more compelling in an actor than a diCaprio or a Damon with their frozen in consternation/constipation potato faces, staring to over deliver every dead inside line.

Ugh.

I’m sick of this guy.

A face only a mother could love.

He looks like Jeremy Renner after being run over by a snowmobile.

Rat-faced fug. Minimal talent.

Barry is unconventional sexy and talented. And he is not self conscious about showing his naked body. Win all around.

It’s no surprise that bitter unfucked old fags will fap their flaccid wee wees to no avail to the much less talented Jacob Elordi over Barry. Dream on elder fags. Dream on.

UGLY UGLY UGLY

There there r32

Come lay your wizened balding heavy jowled head on my breast and we will watch Barry Keoghan’s sizzle reel

I like him and I think he has talent. He had a rough life and now has some accolades without nepotism, money or leading-man looks.

R33 Not sure how insulting strangers makes your Barry more talented/less ugly. But I'm sure it makes you feel better.

Keep lashing out.

He looks like he might age into a Humphrey Bogart face.

He makes Joan River’s original face look like Ava Gardner in her prime…..

ITA. R25. I like him, and think people are being a bit harsh about his looks. You can all have your pretty boy Hemsworths.

Yeah I'm with R25 too, he just needs to smile a bit which I think would improve his look. He has a really nice body, and he's definitely sexy in an unconventional way

He's obviously part Irish traveler. His facial features - the nose and eyelids - are quite commonly found within that ethnicity.

Is their some master dialect coach Brits use to achieve an American accent? Because people like him and Carey Mulligan had me totally fooled they were American. Charlize Theron, too- though she's Seth Efrican.

[quote]Is their some master dialect coach Brits use to achieve an American accent? Because people like him and Carey Mulligan had me totally fooled they were American. Charlize Theron, too- though she's Seth Efrican.

R41: Most of the Irish people I know delight in accents, and will try sometimes to pinpoint an Irish accent down to the street in Dublin down to the city block almost. They like hearing and imitating Irish accents and they enjoy accents from other countries as well. In short, they like listening to accents more than do Americans. When they detect an accent, Americans are often quick to jump in and say that they don't understand a fucking thing that's being said; they don't try to listen let alone to understand and I think that is at root of the difference.

If American accents are more familiar to English ears than vice versa, itś most likely due to music, not only American music but the tendency of British singers to sing in a neutralized/semi-American-sounding accent because of its rhyming possibilities of stressed consonants (the Irish do this less.) The English have a much richer variety of regional and class accents than do Americans and I think that, again, that is of some help to them. And British actors in their drama schools pay more attention to accents and I think vocal coaches have a bigger role there than in the U.S.

Old anglo-saxon vocabularies are in higher use in certain regions of the UK. West Country for example, Devon and Somerset.

I don't know much about the Irish language but I do know that some languages require a very wide variety of sounds to be mastered, others less so. It might be that Irish Gaelic trained for that, and then that transferred to how the Irish "hear" English. I know that some people have native tongues that allow them to hear many sounds in foreign languages - so they can learn them and pronounce them with more ease. They grow up having "good ears" for languages. Arabic native speakers have good ears for languages, in general, I have found.

The USA had such a rich linguistic heritage just a century ago and regionalisms in English alone were incredibly rich. But the massive and universal media culture of the last 50 years as well as Americans being so willing to move to other regions, has tamped it all down.

Just watch old tv or movies from New York in the 70s and you still hear the different borough accents and even lexis. I think these very local dialects have significantly lessoned if not totally died out.

When I moved to Switzerland I could immediately identify speakers from Geneva, Neufchâtel, Fribourg, or the Valais by their different French cadences. These towns are not so far from each other in the small nation. Now I get Gen Z Swiss students who all sound the same, except for differences based on economic class.

Poor Chris O’Dowd could never do an American accent.

[quote]He's probably one of those people who can look hot one moment and then fuggo the next

Before I knew he was Irish, I saw a flash of his face shape that looked like Conan O'Brien. It was some shot in Saltburn.

R42 what accent is he singing in?

[quote]The USA had such a rich linguistic heritage just a century ago and regionalisms in English alone were incredi0bly rich. But the massive and universal media culture of the last 50 years as well as Americans being so willing to move to other regions, has tamped it all down.

It's called Manifest Destiny.

He’s gorgeous. Love his hooded eyes. Very sensual.

Looks special needs.

It's interesting to me, the dunking on Keoghan for his looks, something out of his control, and I suppose its easy to hiss from the peanut gallery. Calm down already, like some of y'all ain't sitting up looking like a busted can of biscuits.

After his performance in BANSHEES, I'll love him forever.

R52 I liked him before, but I became a fan with his performance in The Banshees of Inisherin.

I'm hideous, don't look at me!!!

He looks like he has fetal alcohol syndrome. Most FAS people have normal IQ. But they have learning disabilities like dyslexia, ADD, etc

he has ADHD. But don't the all, nowadays.