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Barry Keoghan has played many characters. In 'Saltburn,' he does several in one role

Jacob Elordi as Felix, left, and Barry Keoghan as Oliver in “Saltburn.”

He was the shy young man, a little slow, who had suffered horrific abuse in "The Banshees of Inisherin." He was the coolly confident extraterrestrial with a penchant for mind control in "Eternals." And he was the embodiment of the laughing death as the latest Joker in "The Batman." And that's just his last three films.

So it shouldn't surprise that in "Saltburn," Barry Keoghan is something completely different. Yet somehow it does, and that's by design.

"Those are conscious choices I'm making, because

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