Jacob Elordi “proud” to have Barry Keoghan “guzzle” semen in ‘Saltburn’
The new psychological thriller Saltburn, directed by Emerald Fennell and starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi and Rosamund Pike, contains some graphic scenes that have made some audience members feel rather disturbed.
At the Los Angeles premiere of the film, Fennell told Variety, “It gets under your skin. We just want to make something that makes people feel something. I want to make stuff that you go and sit in a dark room full of strangers and you don’t know what you’re going to feel and you don’t know where you’re going to be probed.”
One scene sees Keoghan, who plays a lost university student opposite Elordi’s aristocratic student, lick up his counterpart’s semen from a bathtub’s drain after watching him masturbate. “I was very proud,” Elordi admitted. “I was very proud to have Barry Keoghan guzzling it like that.”
“Some people are screaming, some people are squealing,” the director added. “Some people are turned on, some people are freaked out and some are furious. Some people don’t really care. What you want is for people to spill out into the street and want to go and have a drink and talk about it.”
Another moment sees Keoghan hump at the ground of a graveyard with the actor noting, “The gravesite was sort of like a collaboration with me and Emerald. I asked for a closed set. I wanted to see where it went. It could have gone completely wrong but I think it moved the story.”
Fennell explained, “If you’re taken over with grief and horror and love and sadness, people do crazy things. And that’s what this film is about.”
Check out the trailer for Saltburn below.
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