When Barry Keoghan arrived on the Jimmy Kimmel Stay lot in Los Angeles this week, he seemed comfy—if not spiffier than regular—in a golf jacket, pink rugby polo, cargo pants, and duck boots from Thom Browne, which he paired with a vivid pink New York Yankees cap. (Seems that The Pitt’s Noah Wyle wasn’t the one man getting suits off on Kimmel’s set this week.) Keoghan all the time appears to be like most like himself when he’s carrying some type of luxurious streetwear, a method he admits he’s “all the time been actually into.”
However ever for the reason that real-life Ringo Starr spilled the beans that Keoghan could be portraying him in an upcoming slate of Beatles biopics, the Irish actor—with the help of his longtime stylist, Ilaria Urbinati—has been channeling his internal Sgt. Pepper via his clothes. In late March, when the movies’ hunky solid (with Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison rounding out the fictionalized Fab 4) took the stage collectively at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Keoghan went meta in a militaryish Alexander McQueen jacket. Then, on the Met Gala on Monday, the actor graced the steps in an embroidered, Mandarin-collared Valentino jacket cinched with a pink sash belt that seemed prefer it might have been sourced straight from the Beatles’ non secular part.
Certainly, Kimmel even mentioned as a lot to Keoghan throughout their on-air chat. “This, I’d say, has perhaps a Japanese really feel to it,” the late-night host instructed Keoghan, referring to the Valentino ensemble. “Additionally perhaps sort of a Beatles, Sgt. Pepper-y factor.”
“It actually does, proper?” Keoghan replied. “It’s humorous that you just point out Beatles, as a result of…” And thus, an ideal segue to debate one in all a number of tasks Barry’s obtained within the works proper now.
What’s additionally humorous is that this type of meta-dressing has turn into a development all through the music-biopic increase of the previous few years, because the younger actors rewiring their souls to painting well-known musicians (and, ideally, scoring an Oscar nomination within the course of) hunt down new methods to honor their muses. Timothée Chalamet began dropping sartorial hints early on in his means of making ready to play Bob Dylan, and has but to cease since. Whether or not or not this truly aids within the artistic course of is unclear, however I assume a broader pattern dimension can’t harm.
