{"id":488459,"date":"2026-03-22T00:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488459\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T00:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:16:13","slug":"barry-keoghan-says-negative-comments-have-made-him-shy-away-from-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488459\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Keoghan says negative comments have made him \u2018shy away\u2019 from acting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Barry Keoghan<\/a> has confessed that he\u2019s taken a step back from acting<\/a> because of the immense \u201conline hate\u201d he\u2019s received. <\/p>\n

The 33-year-old actor<\/a> spoke about the drawbacks of being in the public eye during Friday\u2019s episode of SiriusXM\u2019s The Morning Mash Up radio show, highlighting how negative comments about his appearance have made him withdraw from all aspects of public life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of abuse of how I look, and it\u2019s kind of past the point of \u2018everyone goes through that\u2019 and everyone does, but it\u2019s made me shy away,\u201d he admitted. \u201cIt\u2019s made me go inside myself and not want to attend places. Not want to go outside.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I remove myself from online, but I\u2019m still a curious human being that wants to go on,\u201d he explained. \u201cIf I attend an event or if I go somewhere, you want to see how it was received. It\u2019s not nice, you know, there\u2019s a lot of hate online.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BarryBarry Keoghan sayes he\u2019s \u2018removed\u2019 himself from being online after hate (Getty Images for Netflix)<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI don\u2019t have to hide away because I am hiding away. I don\u2019t have to go to places because I actually don\u2019t go to places because of these things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when that starts leaking into your art, it becomes a problem because then you don\u2019t even want to be on screen anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Saltburn star added that the way online bullying has affected him is \u201cbecoming a problem.\u201d <\/p>\n

Keoghan also shared his concerns about how the negative comments made about him online will one day impact his three-year-old child, Brando, whom he shares with ex Alyson Sandro.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing to the fans, but it\u2019s also disappointing that my little boy has to read all of this stuff when he gets older,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

The Banshees of Inisherin star has previously hit back at the hate he\u2019s received online. In December 2024, he urged people in a post on X to \u201cbe respectful,\u201d following the criticism he received about his split from singer Sabrina Carpenter.<\/p>\n

\"BarryBarry Keoghan says it is \u2018disappointing\u2019 that his son will see the backlash about the actor online one day (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cI can only sit and take so much. My name has been dragged across the internet in ways I usually don’t respond too,\u201d he wrote at the time. \u201cI have to respond now because it’s getting to a place where there are too many lines being crossed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI deactivated my account because I can no longer let this stuff distract from my family and my work,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe messages I have received, no person should ever have to read them. Absolute lies, hatred, disgusting commentary about my appearance, character, how I am as a parent and every other inhumane thing you can imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n

After calling out critics who dragged his character, he criticized them for breaking boundaries, such as by knocking on his grandmother\u2019s door and sitting outside the home where his son lives. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s crossing a line,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach and every day I work hard to push myself on every level to be the healthiest and strongest person for that boy. I want to provide opportunities for him to learn, fail and grow. I want him to be able to look up to his daddy, to have full trust in me and know I will have his back no matter what. I need you to remember he has to read ALL of this about his father when he is older.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-488459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}