The 2024 Golden Globe nominations have officially been announced!
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Barry Keoghan dares to bare it all in Saltburn. Now, director Emerald Fennell is opening up about the decision to include full-frontal nudity in the movie.
The 31-year-old actor has previously explained how he felt about shooting the daring scene and what the experience was like. We even learned how many takes they filmed to get the footage that we see in the movie.
In a new interview, Emerald talked about how the scene felt “earned” within the story instead of being “gratuitous.”
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“When it comes to nudity, I’m very, very thoughtful — I hope,” she told People. She continued, adding, “Whether it’s people having breakfast or whether it’s a nude dance, why is it in the movie? What is it telling us? What response does it give us?”
In regards to Saltburn, she explained that Barry was drawn in by “moments in this movie, where the joy and the terror and the amazingness is knowing you are going to go somewhere that is so unbelievable.”
Emerald stressed that “enthusiastic consent” was key to filming such scenes, noting that Barry was in agreement with her the whole time.
“About the fact that we, all of us, only do anything because we really, really profoundly believe in it… It’s interesting how the framing of these questions a lot of the time is like, ‘How did you make Barry do this?’ Or, ‘How did you get Barry to…’ And I’m just like, ‘There is no such thing.’ It’s like asking, ‘How did I get somebody into bed?’ It’s not the way that works.”
What was the experience like? “We’re together making the stickiest, most beautiful, complicated thing. We are all in that together, and [if] anyone, at any point, changes their mind about that, that is absolutely fine. It’s like anything — it’s got to be
The 2024 Golden Globe nominations have officially been announced!
With the latest full frontal scenes from Charles Melton in May December and Barry Keoghan in Saltburn, we’re taking a look back to see who used prosthetics and who showed the real thing.
Saltburn, a firm fave on the festival circuit, and indeed here on the site, is set to arrive on Prime Video all around the world from 22nd December.Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, and Carey Mulligan lead the cast of the film which is written and directed by Fennell.Academy Award winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) brings us a beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire. Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.We reviewed the film recently describing it as ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley by the way of Rules of Attraction and Cruel Intentions.
The movie Saltburn has been talked about constantly on social media for the last few weeks and now fans will have the chance to watch the film at home!
Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan were spotted on a dinner date this past weekend in Los Angeles!
Saltburn, the gothic romance thriller from Oscar winner Emerald Fennell, will be available to stream worldwide on Prime Video on Dec. 22. The news comes after the Jacob Elordi, Barry Keoghan, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, and Carey Mulligan movie had an amazing post-Thanksgiving hold at the box office of -10% in its third weekend with $1.678M at 1,566 theaters.
Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. You don’t have t wait until summer vacation to escape to Saltburn. Emerald Fennell’s buzzy sophomore film, which premiered in theaters in November, will arrive on Prime Video on Dec.
Three very different movies, original, with arthouse cred and in theaters for weeks, are drawing audiences showing welcome depth and breadth in the specialty market as awards season kicks off. Nicolas Cage’s nerdy character sees his life collapse when he randomly starts appearing in people’s dreamsas Dream Scenario has a solid expansion, Saltburn is attracting young crowds on the coasts, The Holdovers drawing elusive older demos to theaters.
Freshly furnished with the 2021 Best Screenplay Oscar for Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell was inundated with offers. Instead, she tucked herself away to concentrate on her next project, Saltburn.
Having won an Oscar for her gritty first film about a revenge murder, Emerald Fennell’s second movie, out this week, reminds us that she doesn’t believe in happy endings. Saltburn is about a vengeful college student who aspires to an even wider death toll.
The movie Saltburn is now in theaters and it features so many moments throughout the film that will leave you quite shocked that you’re even witnessing it on the big screen.
Ellise Shafer “Twilight” catapulted Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart to fame when it first premiered in 2008, leading the two to fruitful careers on screen. But who would play Edward Cullen and Bella Swan if the saga was rebooted today? According to Catherine Hardwicke, who directed the first “Twilight” film, Jacob Elordi and Jenna Ortega “would be perfect” as the star-crossed lovers.
Amazon/MGM’s Saltburn, the dark-comedy sendoff of British upper class, expanded nicely in a big jump from seven screens to 1,566, nabbing a spot in the top ten. The film by Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) grossed $1.73 million for the three-day weekend and $2.7 million for the five-day Thanksgiving frame thanks to a strong core group of theaters.
Following her Best Original Screenplay win for Promising Young Woman, Saltburn, Emerald Fennell’s sophomore feature, presents a gothic tale of obsession and excess, starring Barry Keoghan as Oliver, a social-climbing Oxford student obsessed with the aristocratic Felix (Jacob Elordi). The multi-hyphenate Fennell also pops up as the pregnant Midge doll in Barbie and is co-penning the upcoming John Wick spinoff Ballerina. Here, she agrees to revisit some best memories, or, as she puts it, “rummage around those skeletons.”
Robert Pattinson opened up in a new interview.
Saltburn, the new movie from Oscar winner Emerald Fennell, is now playing everywhere.
Emerald Fennell’s dark comedy Saltburn takes a massive jump from to over 1,500 screens today as Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, Hayao Miyazaki’s latest The Boy and the Heron, animated They Shot The Piano Player and other festival favorites launch awards season runs this Thanksgiving specialty weekend.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points, including the ending for “Saltburn.” Singer-songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor was already a fan of Emerald Fennell when she was approached about the use of her 2001 hit “Murder on the Dancefloor” in “Saltburn.” “I loved ‘Promising Young Woman,’” Ellis-Bextor says. But what really sold it to her was the pitch: “A naked man dancing through the rooms of a stately home…I’ve got a quirky sense of humor, and my main thing was, ‘I’ve got to see that.’” Set in 2006, Oliver is a student at Oxford University who becomes dangerously obsessed with the suave and good-looking aristocratic classmate Felix, played by Jacob Elordi.
Saltburn opened in theaters.The dark comedy from Emerald Fennell, the Oscar-winning director of Promising Young Woman, is receiving fairly positive – but not glowing – reviews. The performances from its cast, however, are uniformly earning praise. Now, as some of the actors promote the title, one quote in particular has many gay fans rushing to buy a ticket.In an interview with Variety, star and current sensation Jacob Elordi opened up about one scene in particular that is quite adult in nature.
There is no need for anyone to delicately dance around the reactions to “Saltburn.” Director and screenwriter Emerald Fennell is well aware her follow-up to the Oscar-winning “Promising Young Woman” is, for lack of a better phrase, somewhat polarizing. In fact, after speaking with her late last week it’s clear those sorts of passionate reactions (throw this writer into the growing “love it” camp) are exactly what she’s going for.