Saltburn spoilers follow.
Saltburn star Barry Keoghan has opened up about the nude dance scene at the end of the psychological black comedy thriller.
The film follows Keoghan as lonely Oxford student Oliver, who becomes enamoured (read: obsessed) with fellow undergrad, the inconceivably rich Felix (Jacob Elordi).
After being invited to his wealthy friend's home estate (Saltburn), Oliver uses his obsession with the family to bump them off one by one, until he is alone and king of the castle – and also, fully nude.
The ending has been explained by Keoghan himself and the film's director, Emerald Fennell.
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"It totally felt right," Keoghan admitted to Entertainment Weekly.
"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."
Fennell added that audiences nearly didn't get to see quite so much of Keoghan, as the film originally ended with Oliver calmly walking through the house and sitting down for breakfast.
"A walkthrough didn't have that post-coital triumph," she explained. "If we all did our job correctly, you are on Oliver's side. You don't care what he does, you want him to do it. You are both completely repulsed and sort of on his side."
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"It's that kind of dance with the devil. It's like, 'F---. Okay, let's go.' And so at the end, it needed to have a triumph, a post-coital win, a desecration."
Keoghan admitted that he was initially a bit worried about being naked. "The initial thing was about me having no clothes on. I'm a bit, ehhh," he said. "But after take one, I was ready to go. I was like, 'Let's go again. Let's go again.'
"You kind of forget, because there's such a comfortable environment created, and it gives you that license to go, 'All right, this is about the story now.'"
Saltburn is in UK cinemas now.
