Saltburn star Barry Keoghan previously revealed he is "haunted" by his TV debut – and broadcaster Vogue Williams has revealed she feels the same way, recalling how audiences were "creeped" out by it.
Keoghan played a minor role in Irish crime drama Love/Hate back in 2013. Appearing as a gangster called Wayne, Keoghan's cold-blooded character shot a cat dead in the opening of an episode.
Despite it taking place over ten years ago, Keoghan can't escape the lasting impact of the sinister scene, as Williams brought it up again on the red carpet at the BAFTAs while praising his "bloody amazing" work to date.
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"Everything he does, he turns to magic. Saltburn was one of the wackiest films ever and he knows how to play the part so well," she said (via The Mirror).
"Honestly, I've loved Barry since Love/Hate. Even back then he creeped us all out by killing the cat, and he's still doing it.
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"We'll never let him live that down but he has gone above and beyond in proving himself as one of the best actors out there at the minute."
Keoghan previously said that he felt he'd never fully escapehis role on Love/Hate – revealing that he'd even been called out over Wayne's actions in the US.
"I'll never get away from that cat," he said during an appearance on RTE Radio One in 2016 (via goss.ie).
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"I was in the MetLife stadium in New Jersey about two years ago. I think there was about 90,000 people there and someone pulled me and said, 'You're the guy that shot the cat'.
"I just thought, 'Ah here, I'm halfway across the world and someone said it.'"
"I was away filming in England when all that came out and I kept being sent pictures of papers with me on the front of me. I thought 'What's going on here?'"
Keoghan is soon set to join the cast of Iraq War movie Amo Saddam, where he will be playing an American soldier who guarded former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein while the dictator was on trial for crimes against humanity.
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