Plus, the much tamer way the film almost concluded.
Warning: This article contains spoilers fromSaltburn.
Barry Keoghansays he would be happy if all films ended in a triumphant, naked dance.
Barry Keoghan as Oliver Quick in ‘Saltburn’.Everett Collection
But the result just didn’t have the emotional and aesthetic intensity writer-directorEmerald Fennellwas looking for.
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“A walkthrough didn’t have that post-coital triumph.
If we all did our job correctly, you are on Oliver’s side,” Fennell tells EW.
Barry Keoghan’s Oliver Quick surveys the post-party mess in ‘Saltburn’.Courtesy of Prime Video
“You don’t care what he does, you want him to do it.
You are both completely repulsed and sort of on his side.
It’s that kind of dance with the devil.
It’s like, ‘F—.
Okay, let’s go.’
Keoghan didn’t hesitate when his director asked him to bare it all.
He adds, “It’s ownership.
This is my place.
It’s full confidence in, ‘I can do what I want in this manor.
I can strip to my barest and waltz around because this is mine.’
Yeah… it was fun.”
From the beginning, Fennell knew the shot was a oner (i.e.
“The initial thing was about me having no clothes on.
I’m a bit, ehhh,” he says, pulling a face.
“But after take one, I was ready to go.
I was like, ‘Let’s go again.
Let’s go again.’
His enthusiasm served him well, because go again and again they did.
Fennell says they shot the dance 11 times in total.
I was like, ‘Wow.
Where did them things come from?’
Do ya know what I mean?”
Well,theymay not be, but theaudiencecertainly is.
“I’m gratified by the amount of anecdotal evidence of people gettingluckyafter watching it,” Fennell continues.
“The premiere was pretty interesting.
Saltburnis playing now in select theaters before expanding nationwide Nov. 22.
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