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

With writerdirector Martin McDonaghs fantastic film, The Banshees of Inisherin, now playing in theaters, I recently conducted an extended and wideranging interview with an actor that has really impressed me the past few years, Barry Keoghan. Even though Keoghan is a young actor, hes already accumulated an impressive resume that includes Christopher Nolans Dunkirk, Yorgos Lanthimos The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Chloé Zhaos 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 1920s where everyone knows everyone. Its 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