We reckon Barry Keoghan knows a thing or two about "Burberry weather". The Saltburn actor grew up in Dublin after all, where temperatures rarely go beyond 20 degrees Celcius—perfect weather to be layering over just about any kind of outerwear all year round.
The Burberry global ambassador is one of seven personalities chosen to be part of Burberry's latest outerwear-centric campaign, "It's Always Burberry Weather". Shot across London and the British countryside, the campaign is a series of cinematic vignettes—each individually fronted by Keoghan, actor Zhang Jingyi, Cara Delevingne, England footballers Cole Palmer and Eberechi Eze, musician Simz, and Academy Award-winning actress Olivia Colman—with each highlighting a particular outerwear style reimagined by Burberry. Colman, for example, wears a cosy quilted outerwear while on a drive in the countryside and recounting her sleep trouble woes to a friend over the phone before humorously stumbling upon a flock of sheep. And in the campaign's longest short film (a runtime past the nine-minute mark), Palmer lounges on a deckchair in a duffel coat by a lake, waiting for a fish to bite.
In true thespian fashion, Keoghan's short film sees him running lines with a server at a streetside cafe. He's dressed in a Burberry Check puffer jacket that's very much in line with his own personal aesthetic. It's also reversible—Keoghan wears it with the plain-side out in the short film but is photographed by Alasdair McLellan with the Burberry Check in full display for the campaign's stills. We can't help but draw the parallels between the reversibility of the puffer jacket with Keoghan's own artistry and penchant for taking on characters that aren't exactly what they seem like on the surface—a journey that he tells us, is something that he enjoys discovering while on set and in the moment.
ESQUIRE SINGAPORE: What’s your earliest memory of Burberry?
BARRY KEOGHAN: The first Burberry piece I owned was a Burberry scarf. I remember I used to wear it with anything and everything and it had the traditional pattern on it as well.
ESQ: Being a global ambassador of Burberry now for over six months, you’ve been dressed by the brand a few times, even before the announcement. Is there one significant highlight or moment with Burberry that still sticks out for you?
BK: My favourite Burberry piece I own is the white puffer jacket I wore to the Burberry Summer 2025 fashion show.
ESQ: How did you approach shooting the Burberry Outerwear campaign?
BK: Some of the moments that I remember from the Burberry shoot, was just how fun it was and how easy it was to shoot on film, and how good it was to work with the directors and creative team to bring some humour to the shoot.
ESQ: You do have a penchant for streetwear pieces. How does Burberry Outerwear fit in with your own personal style?
BK: My personal style is sort of like trackies and cropped jackets. I love a good jumper and high neck shirts, and basically a cropped jacket/cropped jumper—I love.
ESQ: Who are some of your biggest acting heroes and non-acting heroes?
BK: Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, and to be honest, animals—I’ve always talked about how I’ve watched and observed animals, and also body language and posture, and documentaries. I gather and observe that. And I also just observe life. I never want to see anyone acting and I’m always looking for what looks true and real and I always find that in documentaries.
ESQ: What has been the most challenging role you’ve taken on so far, and how did you overcome it?
BK: The most challenging would be my Saltburn character. It wasn’t that it was hard or difficult but with the word being "challenging", it's the sort of the thing that I’m drawn to. I like to play characters that aren’t necessarily easy and that I can easily slip in to. I want to always have a challenge and physicality and a skill set I can learn.
ESQ: You’re about to officially take on a role, The Joker, that’s been played by a great number of actors. What’s the thought process like of accepting and then formulating a game plan for a role like that?
BK: Getting into character I have notebooks that I write things down in. I dress like the character, I stay in acting to familiarise with the period, and I do a hobby that the character does. Then I go away for two weeks to get into character and get into the character with no distractions—to live and breathe the character. Then I go to set and be open to collaboration and discovery with the director and team because again, I love to find the character as I go along in the journey and not have everything figured out—just like life.
ESQ: How are you hoping to end the year?
BK: I’m hoping to end the year with some growth and progression in my arts. I hope to be able to look back at it and look at how much I’ve grown and look to set new goals and challenge myself for next year.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Well, well, well, it looks like Barry Keoghan’s boxing lessons have finally paid off. The actor put his athleticism to good use in Sabrina Carpenter’s latest video, “Please Please Please.” His role? Carpenter’s jailbird boyfriend. Don’t worry, though—he’s a bad boy with a big heart.
In case you missed it, Carpenter and Keoghan have been dating for a while. In January, eagle-eyed fans spotted them at Luna Luna, an interactive art museum in Los Angeles. Then he was seen filming her Coachella performance, stage-mom-style. Now they seem to have taken their courtship to the next level—which, in 2024, is a buzzy music video. Don’t you love it when a couple maximizes their joint slay? (Look it up.)
In “Please Please Please,” Carpenter spots Keoghan in jail. She walks out, he walks in, and it’s love at first sight. When it’s Keoghan’s turn to leave his confines, Carpenter scoops him up, and thus begins their whirlwind romance. “I heard that you’re an actor, so act like a stand-up guy,” she sings. “Whatever devil’s inside you, don’t let him out tonight.” Carpenter is ready to take a chance on the man. He has a rough reputation, but it’s fine!
Wrong. Keoghan’s character can’t stay out of trouble. He takes her to a gang’s den and promptly gets into a brutal fistfight, then he robs a bank and is arrested again. Meanwhile, his poor girlfriend begs him to chill out. “Please, please, please / Don’t prove ’em right,” Carpenter sings. “Heartbreak is one thing, my ego’s another / I beg you, don’t embarrass me, motherfucker.” It’s no use. The man is who he is—which, by the way, is a pretty decent fella. Despite the chaos, he still remembers to hold her hand. He’s not all bad.
The cheeky video appears to be a nod to Keoghan’s onscreen bad-boy reputation. (None of us are over Saltburn’s Oliver Quick, are we?) Still, in “Please Please Please,” Carpenter asks him to behave. If not for his sake, then for hers. It ends with her cuffing Keoghan to a chair and kissing his duct-taped mouth while he lovingly gazes at her. I guess you can’t get into trouble if you can’t get up.
Originally published on Esquire US
Barry Keoghan has been made a ‘friend’ of Omega—with a pair of new Speedmaster Moonwatch watches announced to officially welcome him to the brand.
Keoghan has been bossing red carpet coverage for the past 18 months, with a succession of internet-grabbing outfits including a black Stella McCartney suit worn with a frilly white dress shirt, a red Louis Vuitton evening jacket plus matching checkered trousers and an arm-bearing green Givenchy vest.
But he’s been no slouch in the accessories department, either.
There have been jangly keychains. There have been pearl necklaces. There have been Oliver Twist-style top hats.
Watch spotters have also enjoyed his wrist-wear. Keoghan has frequently been kitted out in—and presumably by—Omega.
He wore a handsome burgundy Speedmaster ’57 to last year's BAFTAs.
And a 1930s Art Deco Lépine ‘Sideros’ pocket watch to last month’s Met Gala, to name two.
Today Omega makes the love-in official, with Keoghan announced as the new face of the brand—with two new Speedmaster variants launched to coincide with the happy news.
The first of the new Speedys is a bi-colour version that combines stainless steel and the brand’s own 18ct yellow gold alloy known as Moonshine Gold. It features a sun-brushed silvery dial framed by a black ceramic bezel, with a tachymeter scale in Ceragold, another proprietary Omega material. The contrasting subdials also come in 18ct Moonshine Gold.
The other Speedmaster is being released in yet another Omega material—18ct Sedna Gold. Both models are available now.
Originally published on Esquire UK
Brand ambassador appointments are nothing new—in fact, they're quite a regular occurrence nowadays. What's unusual and quite rare are instances where multiple brand ambassadors are announced on the same day and by two very different brands.
But that's the beauty of appointing a brand ambassador. One is carefully chosen based not only on popularity and personal achievements in the space that they inhabit, but also by how they fit in with the brand ethos and aesthetic. Hence, even when Burberry and RIMOWA announced their newly crowned brand ambassadors on the same day (8 March 2024), the distinction was very clear.
Irish actor Barry Keoghan, known for his roles in movies such as Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin, and most recently, the highly talked about Saltburn, has had many affiliations with Burberry. The BAFTA winner was a guest of the brand for the 2023 Met Gala (dressed in an attention-grabbing outfit featuring chief creative officer Daniel Lee's reworked Burberry check), and opted to wear Burberry to the European premiere of Apple TV+'s Masters of the Air and the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards. If you've been following the Burberry runway shows closely, you would have also spotted Keoghan on the front rows of the Summer 2024 and Winter 2024 shows.
Keoghan's brand ambassadorship seems like a longtime coming then. "I've been a fan of Burberry for many years now. It's such an iconic heritage brand with innovation at its heart, and a commitment to supporting arts and culture. I'm very excited to be a part of this next chapter," he says.
Trust the King of Mandopop to be a fitting ambassador for RIMOWA. Jay Chou confesses to be a longtime fan of RIMOWA: "As I travel around the world, my RIMOWA suitcases have been trusted companions that I share precious memories with. They've accompanied me not only in professional settings but during other travels too, as I delved into new realms to seek out new inspiration." If you're still in doubt about the authenticity of Chou's affinity for RIMOWA, one of his own was showcased as part of RIMOWA's 125th anniversary exhibition SEIT 1898 back in 2023.
Chou is now part of the latest instalment of RIMOWA's Never Still campaign. As an overarching narrative that defines travel not only as a means of personal advancement, but also a catalyst for inner transformation, Chou's campaign sees him relating travel to his musical endeavours and the boundless inspirations that being "never still" offers. "Melodies know no rules, stories unfold spontaneously," he says as he's captured navigating the streets of London (no doubt one of many cities the seasoned entertainer has travelled to) with a RIMOWA Original Cabin in Titanium.
Edited by Asri Jasman
